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UPDATE 3-Statoil, MEG evacuate oil sands staff on Alberta fire threat
2015-05-27 01:19:55| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Statoil ASA and MEG Energy Inc evacuated non-essential staff from oil sands projects in northeastern Alberta on Tuesday as wildfires raged through the key crude-producing region. The two are the latest of several oil producers, including Cenovus Energy Inc and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd , to move staff away from the potential danger.
Canada: Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, industry is salivating
2015-04-12 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The price of crude oil has slumped to its lowest point in six years, and that has sent some major oil companies scrambling to get out of expensive tar-sands projects in Alberta, Canada. Shell has pulled out of one of its largest lease applications, and Petrochina is attempting to get rid of its tar-sands assets. Environmentalists have watched the slowdown with great hope. Yet at the same time, some of those very same companies are positioning themselves to tap into an even more dirty and expensive...
Oil Sands Pain Spreads to Canada's Far-Flung Eastern Shores
2015-03-20 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Cory Troke joined the exodus west two years ago, leaving scenic but job-scarce Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, after being laid off as a machinist. Troke, 37, headed to the Alberta oilsands, apprenticing as a pipefitter and finding 19 months of steady work, flying in for two weeks, returning home for one. By October Troke was out of work again, and he was not alone. A downturn driven by tumbling crude prices is causing turmoil in an island economy that has grown dependent on workers commuting more...
Imperial Oil to construct new oil sands research facility in Calgary
2015-02-20 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canadian petroleum firm Imperial Oil will construct a new oil sands research centre in southeast Calgary.
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Limiting tar sands, coal, Arctic oil key 2°c goal
2015-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The most efficient way of meeting the world's most prominent climate goal would involve ending all Arctic oil drilling plans, drastically curbing tar-sands oil mining in Canada, and leaving most of the world's remaining coal reserves in the ground. That's according to a new study that aimed to determine how best to limit the burning of different fuels to meet the international goal of holding global warming to less than 2°C, or 3.6°F. The goal was established during United Nations climate negotiations,...
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