EDMONTON - The Alberta government is ordering more environmental protection work be done on the Primrose oilsands project in northern Alberta. Earlier this fall, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. was told it must remove most of the water from one of its bitumen leak sites — a small lake — before it freezes. On Monday, the company was told it must also determine the impact to subsurface groundwater and work to find the root cause of all four bitumen releases. The province says that will [Read more]
Final day of Enbridge Line 9 pipeline hearings cancelled over security
ELSIPOGTOG FIRST NATION, N.B. - The people of the Elsipogtog First Nation will continue their fight against shale gas exploration in New Brunswick, the community's chief said Monday as he criticized the RCMP for the way it handled a protest last week that spiralled out of control."What the RCMP put our people through was almost horrendous, to say the least," Aaron Sock told a news conference.Sock said every effort will be made to keep its opposition peaceful after 40 people were arrested and [Read more]
First Nation promises to continue fight against shale gas
REXTON, N.B. - The chief of the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick is criticizing the RCMP for its conduct last week in controlling a protest against shale gas exploration, promising his community will continue to oppose the industry's development in the province.Aaron Sock says every effort will be made to keep its opposition peaceful after 40 people were arrested and weapons seized when the Mounties enforced a court-ordered injunction Thursday to end the blockade of a compound near [Read more]
US Oil drops below $100
Oil sagged to below $100 a barrel Monday for the first time since early July as traders waited for the delayed release of U.S. supply figures that are expected to show another rise in crude stockpiles.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude was down 85 cents a barrel to $99.96 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 14 cents Friday, lifted by an improvement in China's quarterly economic growth.Data on U.S. crude and fuel stockpiles had been postponed [Read more]
Slow times for oilpatch deals
CALGARY - It's a tough time to be looking for a deal in the oilpatch, due to a combination of market uncertainty and confusion over federal foreign investment rules introduced during the past year. With Canada's major energy companies set to report their third-quarter results over the next few weeks, observers say investors will be eagerly awaiting an update on how the firms are slimming their portfolios by selling non-core assets. The likes of Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) and Canadian [Read more]
Final day of Line 9 hearings cancelled
TORONTO - The final day of hearings on a proposal to reverse the flow of a pipeline that runs between southern Ontario and Montreal were cancelled Saturday due to security concerns.But that didn't deter dozens of protesters who rallied outside the site of the scrapped hearing to oppose Enbridge's plan to reverse its Line 9 and increase its capacity to carry crude oil."They try to make it seem like we're not going to have a spill. And it's very likely that a spill will happen somewhere along this [Read more]
‘Warriors’ seize journalists’ car, camera equipment at NB shale gas protest site
REXTON, N.B. - The news director for Global News in New Brunswick says a news vehicle and camera were seized by five protesters in Rexton, N.B., Saturday and a reporter threatened. Jim Haskins said journalist Laura Brown was at the site of an ongoing shale gas protest around noon when the protesters confronted another media outlet and seized a vehicle. One of the signs atop a burnt out police car at the anti tracking protest in #rexton. pic.twitter.com/jomodfs8XV— Julia Wong [Read more]
Canadian Natural donates $7M to University of Calgary engineering school
CALGARY - The University of Calgary says it has received its largest corporate donation from one of Canada's biggest oil and gas producers.Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is contributing $7 million towards a previously announced expansion and renovation at the university's Schulich School of Engineering.The total price tag of the upgrade is $158.3 million.Earlier this month, Alberta Premier Alison Redford announced the provincial government would be contributing $145.2 million to the school.The [Read more]
Northern Alberta First Nation gets OK to appeal oilsands approval
EDMONTON - Alberta's highest court is giving an aboriginal group the OK to appeal regulatory approvals of an oilsands project.The Court of Appeal is permitting the Fort McKay First Nation to challenge go-ahead given to Brion Energy's plans for a 50,000-barrel-a-day operation northwest of Fort McMurray.The ruling means the First Nation will be allowed to question the Alberta Energy Regulator's decision not to consider the band's arguments.The band believes its constitutional rights were violated [Read more]
BC minister believes big LNG investment announcements only weeks away
BEIJING - B.C.'s Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, believes firm announcements about offshore investment in the province's fledgling liquefied natural gas industry are scant weeks away.Speaking from Beijing at the mid-point of a three-country trade mission to Asia, Coleman says Chinese and Korean companies are bullish on B.C.'s LNG industry and he's expecting a similar reaction when he meets with business leaders in Malaysia.The minister says he has wrapped up high-level [Read more]
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