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True Grit
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.
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Prince of a Port
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…
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Sweet Success
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.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHARGES: Suncor fined $200,000 for incidents in 2008
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…
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WATER USE: Outotec joins U of A oil sands research
BURLINGTON, Ontario – Outotec has joined the University of Alberta’s research program intended to foster susta…
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OIL SANDS TAILINGS: Suncor gets okay for TRO technology
ALBERTA – The provincial Energy Resources Conservation Board has approved Suncor Energy’s use of a new approac…
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PERSPECTIVE: Suncor set to build wind power project
Canada’s largest oil and gas company is looking beyond conventional production and the Athabasca oil sands and…
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PERSPECTIVE: Thoughts on oily environmental problems
I’ve been in the United States these last three weeks, and have been bombarded with news of British Petroleum’…
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OIL SANDS EXPANSION: Syncrude’s plans include Aurora South mine
ALBERTA – Calgary’s Canadian Oil Sands Trust, 37% owner of the Syncrude project near Fort McMurray, has announ…
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HOT TOPIC: Foreign ownership of Canadian resources (December 02, 2009)
Once again we are going to revisit the question of foreign ownership/exploitation of Canadian mineral resource…
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HOT TOPIC: Making protestors pay
Greenpeace invaded another oil sands producer, Suncor’s operations, on Wed., Sept. 30. Greenpeace said that it…
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READER COMMENT: Greenpeace and the oil sands
Brian Grant, president and COO of Goldbrook Ventures in Vancouver provided his thoughts on the Greenpeace acti…