Hyyraulic fracking, the process whereby water, sand and a mix of chemicals are used to extract oil and natural gas from shales and other low permeability deposits, continues to be a controversial topic.
International trade is a fickle business, and no more so than in China. The near collapse of its burgeoning trade economy in the 1990s had Canadian shippers shifting their business back to traditional U.S. markets, where it would remain until…
Gary St. Onge is a retired schoolteacher and the Mayor of Estevan, a small city located in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan, less than 20 kilometres from the U.S. border.
ALBERTA – Suncor Energy of Calgary pleaded guilty on Dec. 21, 2010, to two violations of the Canadian Fisheries Act for the deposit of a deleterious substance into waters frequented by fish and was fined $200,000. The penalty includes a…
BURLINGTON, Ontario – Outotec has joined the University of Alberta’s research program intended to foster susta…
ALBERTA – The provincial Energy Resources Conservation Board has approved Suncor Energy’s use of a new approac…
Canada’s largest oil and gas company is looking beyond conventional production and the Athabasca oil sands and…
I’ve been in the United States these last three weeks, and have been bombarded with news of British Petroleum’…
ALBERTA – Calgary’s Canadian Oil Sands Trust, 37% owner of the Syncrude project near Fort McMurray, has announ…
Once again we are going to revisit the question of foreign ownership/exploitation of Canadian mineral resource…
Greenpeace invaded another oil sands producer, Suncor’s operations, on Wed., Sept. 30. Greenpeace said that it…
Brian Grant, president and COO of Goldbrook Ventures in Vancouver provided his thoughts on the Greenpeace acti…