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News flash…. not really
Big news on the oil pipeline front that really shouldn’t be news at all. According to a not-exactly-mind-blowing email that landed in our inbox the other day, “Leaders representing municipal,...
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Kinder Morgan commercial tolling application approved
This just in from Kinder Morgan: Their commercial tolling application was approved by the National Energy Board. The company is planning to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs oil from Alberta...
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B.C. Premier Clark says Northern Gateway poses “a very large risk” to her...
By Jason Fekete Postmedia News OTTAWA — B.C. Premier Christy Clark says the proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline poses “a very large risk” to her province with “very small” benefit, and doubts...
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Pipeline politics force oil producers to search for transportation alternatives
OTTAWA — As battles rage over the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines, governments and energy companies are eyeing other options for transporting oilsands crude to foreign markets, including by...
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Canada’s need for more pipeline capacity a ‘real concern,’ says natural...
OTTAWA — Canada risks stranding its resource bounty unless it adds new pipeline capacity to the West Coast, eastern provinces and the U.S., says Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, who believes the...
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State Department report downplays Keystone pipeline’s impact on oilsands...
WASHINGTON – A U.S. government draft report on the environmental effects of the Keystone XL pipeline says the project’s impact on the growth of the oilsands in Alberta will not be significant – a...
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Claims that Canada loses billions in oil revenue are bogus, economists say
WASHINGTON – Politicians call it the “double discount” and it’s supposed to be costing Canada billions of dollars in lost oil revenues. Last December, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver told a New...
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Harper to balance oilsands lobbying with trade concessions during Europe trip
LONDON — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be juggling the need to push free-trade talks forward with efforts to tamp down concerns over oilsands crude as he begins an extended trip to several...
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Oily trees photo came from oilsands company, says regulator
The Alberta Energy Regulator has confirmed that a photo showing oily trees near a mysterious ongoing industrial leak originates from Canadian Natural Resources Limited. The provincial regulator made...
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Canada lobbies against proposed European fuel law
OTTAWA — A multiyear lobbying effort by Ottawa and Alberta against a proposed European fuel law that would label the oilsands a dirtier form of crude is expected to culminate over the next couple of...
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Memo told Joe Oliver that oilsands leak was unexplained
OTTAWA – Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was told in a “confidential” memo in July that an oilsands site under investigation in northeastern Alberta had a history of unexplained leaks. The CNRL...
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Harper government cutting more than $100 million related to protection of water
OTTAWA — More than $100 million in cuts are underway at the federal department in charge of protecting Canada’s water and oceans, despite recommendations from top bureaucrats that it needs to increase...
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Satellite data sound alarm on safety of bitumen extraction
OTTAWA — Satellite imagery used by the federal government to review a major bitumen leak last year in Alberta has found the project’s steam-based extraction caused “measurable levels of ground...
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Memo to Harper predicted boom in transporting oil by rail
OTTAWA – An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac-Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of...
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Obama promises decision on Keystone XL in couple of months
WASHINGTON – After more than five years of often inflamed debate, U.S. President Barack Obama says he will decide on the fate of the troubled Keystone XL pipeline “one way or another in a couple of...
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Academics take issue with ‘flawed’ pipeline policies and leadership
VANCOUVER — A Canadian-led group of academics has taken to one of the world’s top science journals to call for a moratorium on new oilsands and pipeline projects. The group, led by ecologist Wendy...
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