This article was published by Bill Whitelaw on Nov. 30, 2023. If the Canadian oil and gas industry could boast of producing a public intellectual, one name and one voice spring readily to mind. Gordon [Read more]
On Tuesday, Dow announced that its board of directors has declared final investment decision on the company’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero investment to build the world’s first net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions integrated ethylene cracker and [Read more]
Alberta is investing $7 million from the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Fund to help Cenovus Energy study how small modular nuclear reactors could be used in northern Alberta. Portions of the allotted money will [Read more]
Edmonton, Alberta – Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC), in partnership with the Government of Alberta, is launching a series of resources to address current and future workforce requirements to help ensure the integrity of the [Read more]
This article was published by Pembina Institute on July 31, 2023. By Will Noel The natural splendour of Alberta is no secret. Now this prized heritage is helping create another economic boom. The wind-swept prairies [Read more]
Time for careful evaluation of impact on McClelland Lake’s two fens and their 60 kilometres of sensitive peat-producing wetlands? Critics call it the “Alberta Energy Facilitator.” A spat emerging over Suncor’s proposed McClelland Lake oil [Read more]
CALGARY, AB – The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has ordered AlphaBow Energy Ltd. (AlphaBow) to pay a $25 000 fine for constructing pipelines without approval. Between November 11 and 17, 2021, AlphaBow performed work to [Read more]
This article was published by Troy Media on July 5, 2023. By Bill Whitelaw If I had a dollar for every time someone in Canada’s oil and gas industry laments “we need to change the narrative,” you [Read more]
This article was published by the Pembina Institute on May 30, 2023. Over the last two years, the Pembina Institute has examined the barriers to gender equity in the energy sector and has proposed solutions to be adopted by [Read more]
By Geoff Stiles Now that Alberta’s provincial election has been called, it’s time to have a critical look at how the United Conservative Party plans to reduce the province’s massive carbon emissions. Will they finally [Read more]
On Thursday, Environment and Climate Change Canada said it has opened an investigation into Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands site. The federal agency says it will investigate a tailings pond leak at the northern Alberta [Read more]
This week Air Products announced plans to build a multi-modal hydrogen refuelling station near its new net-zero hydrogen energy complex under construction in Edmonton. The hydrogen refuelling station will be Air Products’ first in Canada [Read more]
On Wednesday, Suncor Energy announced that it has agreed to purchase TotalEnergies’ Canadian operations in the Alberta oil sands for $5.5 billion. TotalEnergies holds a 31.23 per cent working interest in the Fort Hills oil [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on March 15, 2023. Bitumen produced from Alberta’s oil sands is either mined or produced from wells. Only shallow bitumen, up to 75 metres deep, can be [Read more]
By Amanda Bryant Alberta’s environment minister, Sonya Savage, recently took issue with the term “just transition”, which is often used as shorthand for ‘leaving no one behind’ in the transition to net zero. If anything [Read more]
This article was published by Clean Prosperity on Sept. 28, 2022. Without tightening Alberta’s industrial carbon pricing system, the province could miss opportunities to benefit from growth in jobs and investment in the emerging low-carbon [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on June 8, 2022. Canadian bitumen production from oil sands mining(1) and in situ operations hit a record high of 3.5 million barrels per day (MMb/d) in October 2021. [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 25, 2022. Helium is used in high-tech applications including cooling Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines, the production of fiber optics, semiconductors (transistors), flat panel displays, [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on February 23, 2022. Bitumen or crude bitumen is a thick, sticky form of crude oil. When extracted from the ground, bitumen has the consistency of [Read more]
Calgary, AB – A multidisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in medicine, education, engineering, geography, science, and law is investigating maternal and child health, child development, regulations and policy related to hydraulic fracturing in Alberta. [Read more]
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