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Tag Archives: Alberta
Alberta flooded with applications for grants to clean up inactive oil and gas wells
Calgary’s Scott Darling, who owns two oil-well service companies – Performance Energy Services and Performance Production Services – is hoping to participate in Alberta’s Site Rehabilitation Program. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail May 25 2020 Alberta flooded with applications for … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Financial, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged Alberta, cleanup, covid-19, economic relief, federal, inactive, Oil and Gas, orphaned, pandemic, Saskatchewan, well, Western Canada
Alberta’s Energy Regulator looks to be reining in its leniency
JEFFREY JONES THE GLOBE AND MAIL May 15 at 6:20 p.m. CDT The Alberta Energy Regulator has been burned badly by approving transfers of oil and gas assets it should have turned down. Its decision to reject an unusual application … Continue reading
Posted in justice, News and politics, Oil and Gas
Tagged Alberta, cleanup liabilities, fraud, Oil and Gas, orphaned wells, regulator, tax payers
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Alberta suspends environmental monitoring rules for oil sands during pandemic
Oil goes into a tailings pond at the Suncor oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alta., September 17, 2014. Todd Korol/Reuters Carol Scott The Canadian Press Published May 14, 2020 The Alberta Energy Regulator has suspended a wide array of … Continue reading
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Tagged AB, AER, Alberta, bc, BITUMEN, Canada, Canadian, cancer, concerns, Conservative, contamination, covid, directive 74, ercb, First Nations, fish, food sources, government, health, imperial oil, indigenous, migratory birds, mines, monitoring killing, natural resources, Oil Sands, pandemic, peoples, polluting, ponds, reclamation, regulation, spills, suncor, tailings, tar sands, toxic, waterways
Alberta to rewrite oil sands tailings ponds regulations
Oil goes into a tailings pond at the Suncor tar sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. Alberta’s toxic tailings ponds have become an emblem of what critics view as the energy industry’s disregard for the environment. © … Continue reading
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Tagged AB, AER, Alberta, bc, BITUMEN, Canada, Canadian, cancer, Conservative, contamination, directive 74, ercb, First Nations, fish, food sources, government, imperial oil, indigenous, migratory birds, mines, monitoring killing, natural resources, Oil Sands, peoples, polluting, ponds, reclamation, regulation, spills, suncor, tailings, tar sands, toxic, waterways
Alberta asking Feds for more funds to deal with orphaned well cleanup
Old, unproductive oil and gas wells could cost up to $70B to clean up, says new report ‘The mess continues to grow,’ says landowner stuck with abandoned well Kyle Bakx – CBC News — Hustle in the oil patch: Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, international, justice, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged AER, Alberta, bankruptcies, BITUMEN, cleanup, corruption, Energy, environmental, fossil fuels, funds, gas, misuse, oil, Oil Sands, orphaned, reclamation, regulator, Sustainability, tar sands, tax payers, wells
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Alberta and Canada ignores the ticking time-bomb of orphaned oil and gas wells at its own peril
Eamon Mac Mahon, ASSOCIATED PRESS Syncrude upgrader facilities on the Athabasca river near Fort McMurray Alberta Dec 9 2019 – Globe and Mail, The Narwhal and Concerned Citizen — These are some of the major issues that make it hard … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged AER, Alberta, allegations, bankruptcy, Canada, cleanup, coal, corruption, gas, inactive, liabilities, oil, orphaned, pipelines, royalties, subsidies, tar sands, wells
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Large Alberta oilsands mine in public interest despite ‘significant adverse’ effects: panel
ENVIRONMENT July 25, 2019 By Lauren Krugel The Canadian Press An oil worker holds raw sand bitumen near Fort McMurray, on July 9, 2008. An oil worker holds raw sand bitumen near Fort McMurray, on July 9, 2008. THE CANADIAN … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, News and politics, Oil and Gas
Tagged Alberta, BITUMEN, Climate Change, ecomomic, emissions, Environment, First Nations, impact, indigenous, mine, Oil Sands
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NEW FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL RULES WILL ALLOW ‘INEVITABLE’ RELEASE OF ‘TREATED’ WASTE WATER FROM TOXIC TAR SANDS TAILINGS
FULL STORY: GLOBE AND MAIL @GLOBEANDMAIL Ottawa, Alberta eye looser rules for releasing oil-sands wastewater JEFF LEWIS ENVIRONMENT REPORTER PUBLISHED MAY 20, 2019 UPDATED MAY 20, 2019 @JEFFALEWIS1 Wikipedia — Commentary If the toxic tailings are dried and water treated … Continue reading
Posted in Health and wellness, Nature, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged AER, Alberta, Athabasca, BIODIVERSITY & HABITAT, BITUMEN, BUBBLE, Canada, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, FIRST PEOPLES, HEALTH & SAFETY, Oil Sands, river, shell, SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, syncrude, tailings, tar sands, toxic, WATER
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Canadian Government proposing replacing the National Energy Board Regulator via Bill-C69 and appointing board members and high paid CEO
March 30 2019 – Various news sources plus commentary Here is an update on the status of Bill-C69, a collection of news articles, details of the appointments and some commentary. This bill passed in the house with Liberal majority and … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged Alberta, Appointments, bankruptcy, Bill-C69, Canadian, cleanup, donations, Energy Regulator, environmental, Example, fraud, gas, industry, Liberal, National Energy Board, NEB, oil, Party, SNC Lavalin
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Elections fraud undermining democracy
Jeff Callaway in downtown Calgary, on March 11, 2015. CHRIS BOLIN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Mar 20 2019 Three more donors to former Alberta UCP candidate Jeff Callaway identified for donating money that wasn’t theirs. I am glad to hear the … Continue reading
