MONTREAL - Canadian First Nations and U.S. tribal communities are stepping up their fight against Alberta's oilsands industry, vowing to stop the development and distribution of the province's crude across the continent. Indigenous leaders from nearly 100 aboriginal communities in Eastern and Western Canada and a few in the United States, including Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota, signed a treaty Thursday in Montreal and Vancouver. They plan to join [Read more]
Saskatchewan, B.C., toughen deposit requirements for cleanup of oil and gas wells
CALGARY - Companies buying energy assets in Saskatchewan and British Columbia are facing higher deposit costs for environmental remediation after a precedent-setting court case in Alberta that dealt with abandoned oil and gas wells. In a letter sent last month to operators of wells, pipelines and other energy assets in Saskatchewan, the provincial Ministry of Economy (ECON) warns that all applications to transfer government licences for wells as part of sales transactions will be treated [Read more]
Shell weighs options of two kilometres of dropped pipe near abandoned wellhead
HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes — each weighing at least 20 tonnes — left on the seabed of the Scotian shelf. The pipe and the drilling equipment plunged to the ocean bottom on March 5 when the contracted Stena IceMax drilling ship unlatched from the well in heaving seas and lost control of the two kilometres of steel gear. Since then, both Shell [Read more]
Lower emissions give Imperial confidence oilsands projects will be approved
CALGARY - The CEO of Imperial Oil said Wednesday he's confident that two multibillion-dollar oilsands projects facing regulatory review in Alberta will be approved, despite the NDP government's climate change policies which include a hard cap on overall greenhouse gas emissions. Rich Kruger said the company's Aspen and Cold Lake Expansion projects in northern Alberta will use new technologies that mean they will be more energy efficient, use 25 per cent less water and produce 25 per cent [Read more]
A look at the status of Northern Gateway and other major Canadian pipeline projects
CALGARY - Proposed pipelines in Canada seem to be taking two steps back for every step forward. The latest backslide came Tuesday when proponents of Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline said they will not appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision in June to quash Ottawa's approval of the $7.9-billion project. The federal government then said it won't appeal, either. The court had ruled the approval must be set aside because government had failed in its duty to consult with aboriginal [Read more]
Environment Minister Phillips says polarized debate hindering climate action
CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says debate around climate change has become too polarized, and that uncertainty on action will discourage investment. Speaking to a full house at the Pembina Climate Summit in Calgary Tuesday, Shannon Phillips said the debate in the oil and gas industry has already shifted to how best to tackle climate change — but that the political right in Alberta continues to preach inaction. "As we move back into the legislature, you will all hear [Read more]
Enbridge won’t appeal court ruling against Northern Gateway pipeline
VANCOUVER - First Nations in British Columbia remain staunchly opposed to a proposed pipeline linking the province's north coast to Alberta's oilsands after the federal government and Northern Gateway announced they will not appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision on the project. Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said the two announcements Tuesday make no difference to First Nations that would be negatively impacted by the $7.9-billion project, which he [Read more]
Major maintenance project for New Brunswick refinery to employ 2,400 workers
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Irving Oil says Canada's largest oil refinery will begin a $135 million tune-up next week that will utilize 2,400 workers over six weeks. Mark Sherman, chief operating officer at Irving Oil, says workers will undertake maintenance and infrastructure projects to increase the Saint John, N.B., refinery's efficiency and performance. Irving Oil says the project is expected to result in more than $15 million in benefits for the local economy. The Saint John [Read more]
Lightstream Resources fails to reach deal with creditors, moving to sale
Calgary-based oil and gas producer Lightstream Resources says it is moving to a court-supervised sale after it was unable to reach a settlement agreement with debt holders. The company said Monday it would be seeking to enter protection from creditors under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Lightstream has been struggling under close to $1.2 billion in debt and was under a Sept. 16 deadline to reach a deal with lenders. With no deal in sight, Lightstream says it [Read more]
Key dates this autumn for federal climate, energy decision-making
OTTAWA - The fall of 2016 is shaping up as a period of crucial decisions by the federal government on climate policy and energy infrastructure. Here are some key dates: Sept. 22 — The deadline for the federal government to decide whether it will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on a ruling that impacts the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal and the First Nations consultation. The Federal Court of Appeal overturned the conditional approval of the oil pipeline in June, [Read more]
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