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Alberta Regulator Quietly Halts Steam Bitumen Mining Due to Safety Concerns

2014-03-06 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tyee: The Alberta energy regulator has suspended the fastest-growing source of bitumen production around Fort McMurray due to concerns about fracturing the regions cap rock. Last January, the regulator quietly issued a bulletin announcing the freeze on development in the Wabiskaw-McMurray deposit of the Athabasca Oil Sands Area while it completes a thorough technical review of the factors that affect reservoir containment of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects. The suspension affects...

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