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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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Alberta Oilsands to acquire Marquee Energy
2016-08-22 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Alberta Oilsands (AOS) has signed an agreement to acquire Canadian-based Marquee Energy, pursuant to a plan of arrangement.
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Alberta co-chair of climate change advisory group regrets likening oilsands to 'Mordor'
2016-07-14 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Alberta's Opposition Wildrose Party is criticizing the NDP government for appointing someone to an advisory group who once compared the oilsands to "Mordor." Mordor is a dark, scorched land of suffering in the fictional world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On Wednesday, the province announced the members of an 18-member advisory group to implement Alberta's climate-change plan. The group's mandate is to provide advice on ways to ensure that initiatives created as part of the government's...
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A decade of bitumen battles: How 10 years of fighting over oilsands affects energy, environment debate today
2016-07-06 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canada: Standing two storeys tall, the 180-tonne yellow dump truck parked on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., commanded attention all around Capitol Hill. With tires four metres high, the Caterpillar 777F hauler -- similar to the monster machines used in the oilsands -- was the main attraction for Albertas exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in July 2006. The behemoth machine symbolized the provinces growing energy bounty: a secure supplier of crude to the United States, boasting some...
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Why scientists are amazed at oilsands smog levels
2016-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it. In fact the tarsands, already the largest source of climate disrupting greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, have a new grim moniker: "one of the largest sources of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosols in North America." Researchers...
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