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Oil Sands Are An Easy Target But They Are Going Nowhere

Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau sparked outrage earlier this month by saying the Alberta oil sands need to be “phased out”. Because the oil sands industry is the third-biggest employer in Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jan 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Canada Needs to Phase Out Oil Sands, Prime Minister Says

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked anger in the oil-rich province of Alberta on Friday for saying Canada needs to phase out the oil sands. Mr. Trudeau told a town-hall Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jan 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Statoil Exits Production in Canadian Oil Sands

Canadian oil sands, selling off its assets to Athabasca Oil Corp. and taking a loss of at least $500 million. The move ends Statoil’s nearly decadelong foray into oil sands Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Dec 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Canada Oil Sands in Race With Shale, Batteries for Survival

Canada’s oil-sands industry is in a race with other forms of crude production and emerging technologies such as electric cars to remain a relevant energy source in the coming decades, Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Oct 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Three new oil sands projects approved in Alberta

Three new oil developments in the Fort McMurray area could add up to 95,000 barrels of oil per day to current output, Alberta’s government said. The provincial government approved three Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Suncor Energy Seeks Permission to Abandon Some Oil-Sands Assets

Suncor Energy Inc., SU -0.58 % Canada’s largest oil producer, is in talks with government officials for permission to “strand,” or abandon, some high cost and greenhouse gas-intensive crude-oil deposits, Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Canada’s Economy Shows Signs of Life Beneath Oil-Fire Damage

Output grows 0.6% in June to cap grim second-quarter result Data suggests GDP ‘to get a nice lift in the third quarter’ Canada’s economy grew at the fastest pace in Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • China
  • Tar Sands

Cnooc Posts 1st Half-Year Loss on Canadian Oil Sands Charge

Reports first-ever half year loss at 7.74 billion yuan Total output slips more than 5% from second half of 2015 Cnooc Ltd. posted its first-ever half-year loss as crude’s plunge Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Aug 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Tar Sands

Suncor Mulls Stranding Some Oil in Bid to Cut Costs, Save Planet

Suncor Energy Inc. is discussing with the Alberta government leaving some oil-sands bitumen in the ground in order to lower emissions and reduce costs, Chief Executive Officer Steve Williams said. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Tar Sands

Chinese Energy Giant’s Big Bet on Oil Sands Backfires

Three years after spending $15 billion on an ambitious bid to revitalize a troubled oil-sands project in a northern Canadian swampland, one of China’s largest state-controlled oil companies has run Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple

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