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Albertas Smaller Oil Producers Eye Output Boost After Curbs Lifted
2019-08-21 21:32:46| OGI
The new United Conservative Party government doubled an exemption threshold in the curtailment policy to 20,000 barrels per day, eliminating constraints on 13 companies whose output falls below that level.
Albertas New Rules May be Insufficient for Dealing with Sprawling Oilsands Tailings Ponds
2016-09-10 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DeSmog: Its been almost two months since the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) released a new management framework to deal with the provinces growing legacy of oilsands tailings ponds that hold a toxic mixture of waste water, bitumen, solvents and sand. But were really no closer to knowing if Directive 085 -- quietly made effective on July 14 -- will provide the necessary financial pressures for companies to start dealing with the almost one trillion litres of tailings that cover some 220 square kilometres...
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Why heat, droughts and dwindling glaciers threaten Albertas oil sands
2016-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: But three interconnected threats may make the river`s flow far smaller in the future than it is today: Drought The Athabasca River`s flow has been measured since the early 1950s and water allocation decisions are based on that data, says University of Regina geography professor David Sauchyn. But recent research shows that recent decades have been a wet period. The region`s deeper history shows long, severe droughts. Sauchyn studied rings on trees in the Athabasca`s headwaters, in Jasper...
Ontario Centres Of Excellence And Alberta's Climate Change And Emissions Management Corporation Collaborate To Reduce GHG Emissions
2016-05-27 07:16:09| pollutiononline Home Page
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) andAlberta'sClimate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) are partnering to bolster cross-provincial efforts that support innovative technology breakthroughs for reducing carbon emissions.
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Alberta's climate change plan is shifting oilsands perceptions: panel author
2016-04-06 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The lead architect of Alberta`s climate change plan says that despite some opposition, the initiative is helping shift the debate on the province`s biggest resource. "I think you`ve seen a very different framing of the oilsands nationally and internationally," said Andrew Leach, who led Alberta`s climate change advisory panel. It`s all part of a changing dialogue globally on greenhouse gas policy, he said in a recent interview, pointing to the Paris climate accord and a Canada-U.S. agreement...
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