CALGARY - The National Energy Board says its review of the Energy East Pipeline cost at least $685,000 before members of the panel presiding over hearings into the development resigned, putting the exercise into limbo. Ninety per cent of the federal regulator's budget comes from the pipeline and energy companies it regulates, with the rest coming from public coffers. The figure includes costs from meetings with communities before the hearings began last month, the gathering of [Read more]
Latest water samples from oil-spill river show one is higher than guidelines
SASKATOON - The latest round of tests after an oil spill in the North Saskatchewan River has found one sample contained hydrocarbons that exceeded drinking-water standards. Patrick Boyle with the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency says 55 samples were taken. He says hydrocarbons are attaching to the sediment in the river and water treatment plants will be able to remove them. Boyle says 22 of the samples exceeded the limits for protection of aquatic life, which is two [Read more]
U.S. and Canadian aboriginal groups sign treaty to oppose oilsands development
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]
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