CALGARY - Athabasca Oil Corp. says it's optimistic it will be able to sell its stake in the Dover oilsands project to its Chinese partner, despite recent setbacks, as well as land joint-venture deals for some of its other holdings. But, should those efforts fail, the Calgary-based company said Wednesday it is prepared to sharply reduce spending and pursue other measures to stay afloat. On October 18, Alberta's highest court gave an aboriginal group the right to appeal a regulatory decision [Read more]
Trudeau speaks to oil executives in Calgary, slams Harper
CALGARY - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau used a speech to oil executives Wednesday to blame the federal government's "megaphone diplomacy" for delays in a U.S. decision on the Keystone XL oilsands pipeline.Trudeau told the Calgary Petroleum Club that Stephen Harper's government has failed to come up with a "sensible" national strategy on greenhouse gases and that is damaging Canada's reputation."After eight years here is what the so-called friendliest government the Canadian energy industry has [Read more]
Alberta’s environmental monitoring panel to be running by early 2014
EDMONTON - The Alberta government says its long-promised environmental monitoring agency will be up and running by early in the new year. That's despite the fact it has no leaders, scientific advisers or permanent funding. Aboriginal groups say they've been left out of the process, and legislation to create the agency hasn't passed yet. Alberta Environment official Ernie Hui says there's a lot of work to do. But he says people from industry, academia and the environmental community [Read more]
Premiers Wall, Alward urge Canada to move forward on pipeline development
OTTAWA - Two of the country's premiers are in Ottawa to deliver the message that all of Canada will reap the rewards of moving Canadian energy to coastal ports in order to sell it to international markets. New Brunswick Premier David Alward says "every province, every region, every community, every Canadian" will benefit from pipelines that would carry oil from western provinces to ocean ports. Alward and his Saskatchewan colleague, Brad Wall, are urging provinces like Quebec and Ontario [Read more]
Redford heads to Washington to talk Keystone
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford will make her fifth trip to Washington next month to speak about the need for the Keystone XL pipeline.She will meet with officials in the U.S. State Department as they finalize an environmental assessment of the proposed transcontinental pipeline.Redford says she will also meet again with Heidi Heitkamp, the Democratic senator from North Dakota who is a strong pipeline advocate.The premier leaves on Nov. 11 for the two-day trip, during a week when the [Read more]
No Ontario environmental assessment of Line 9
TORONTO - Ontario won't conduct its own environmental assessment of a plan to reverse the flow of the Line 9 oil pipeline that runs through the province, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said Monday.Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. wants to reverse Line 9 and increase its capacity to move 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day, up from the current 240,000 barrels.It has also asked for permission to move different types of oil between southwestern Ontario and Montreal, including a heavier form of crude.The [Read more]
B.C. announces funds for First Nations to get involved in clean energy
VANCOUVER -- A dozen British Columbia First Nations will share $1.3 million in provincial funding to develop clean energy, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Rustad announced Monday during a speech to the Clean Energy Association of B.C. But some First Nations fear, despite the funding, that government interest in the green option is cooling in the shadow of the province's multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas dreams. Judith Sayers, a former chief of the Hupacasath First Nation on [Read more]
What’s good for you is good for us: Ontario Premier plays nice in Alberta
CALGARY - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says what's good for Alberta's oil and gas industry is good for her province too."Oil and gas are clearly fundamental to Alberta's economy and to Canada's but also to Ontario's — and I want everyone to know that I understand that and I want to advance that," Wynne told a corporate crowd in Calgary on Friday."Many of our Ontario manufacturers now directly support your industry. I want us to build on that relationship."Wynne set a different tone than that [Read more]
Nearly 300 oil pipeline spills went unreported to US state since 2012
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota, the No. 2 oil producing state behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None of them were reported to the public, officials said. According to records obtained by The Associated Press, the pipeline spills, many of them small, are among some 750 "oil field incidents" that have occurred since January 2012 without public notification. "That's news to us," said Don Morrison, director of the Dakota Resource [Read more]
Ottawa backing off oilsands assessment
OTTAWA - The federal government appears to be backing away from any role in assessing the environmental impact of new oilsands projects. A list of the types of projects that will require a federal environmental assessment has been released and it does not include any in-situ oilsands mines. Expansions to open pit mines will still be reviewed. But 80 per cent of the resource can only be recovered using in-situ methods and that's how most new development is expected to proceed. Those [Read more]
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