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UPDATE 1-CNRL inspecting evacuated oil sands site, fires still burn
2015-06-02 02:16:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Firefighters made progress tackling wildfires in the key oil-producing region of northern Alberta on Monday that shut in 10 percent of total oil sands production and workers are beginning to return to assess the damage. For more than a week, 233,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude has been shut in after companies with facilities close to uncontrolled wildfires rushed to evacuate staff.
UPDATE 1-CNRL inspecting evacuated oil sands site, fires still burn
2015-06-02 01:41:54| Energy - Topix.net
Firefighters made progress tackling wildfires in the key oil-producing region of northern Alberta on Monday that shut in 10 percent of total oil sands production and workers are beginning to return to assess the damage. For more than a week, 233,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude has been shut in after companies with facilities close to uncontrolled wildfires rushed to evacuate staff.
Dozens of Canada's tar sands projects on hold as prices fall, analysis shows
2015-05-29 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Oil companies have frozen dozens of projects in Canadas tar sands, amid falling prices and a rising tide of protest against one of the worlds most polluting fossil fuels. Some 39 projects containing 13bn barrels of oil are currently delayed or on hold, according to analysis by the campaign group Oil Change International published on Friday. The projects a combination of open-cast mines and drilling would pump 7.8bn tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere if they went ahead, the equivalent emissions...
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Canada must deal with tar sands emissions, says Clinton campaign chief
2015-05-28 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada faces a widening rift with America over climate change unless it deals with excessive emissions from the Alberta tar sands, according to a trusted adviser to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. John Podesta told the Guardian that Canada must do more to compensate for its exploitation of the carbon intensive tar sands ahead of a critical conference in Paris aimed at reaching an international agreement to fight climate change. Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has championed...
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Canada wildfires rage on, intensify near oil sands sites
2015-05-27 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire raging in northeastern Alberta near two major oil sands projects nearly doubled in size to 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) on Wednesday, although firefighters made some progress tackling blazes elsewhere in the oil-rich Western Canadian province. The fires have forced energy companies operating in Alberta, the largest source of U.S. oil imports, to shut in 233,000 barrels per day of production, or roughly 10 percent of total oil sands output. Scott Long of the Alberta Emergency Management...
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