July 2015

Oil industry jobs: Some Canadian high schools offer training in entry-level jobs

News

Alberta Distance Learning, Northern Lights School District training students in oil industry jobs By Frank McCallum for Troy Media EDMONTON – Resource employers struggling to fill entry-level, grow-on-the-job, “blue-collar” positions understand Canada’s employment paradox better than anyone. Unemployment and dropout rates are high in many of the areas they operate. The inescapable logic of this is that […]

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Hess, Global Infrastructure team up on Bakken midstream joint venture

Energy Financial

Hess says the sale proceeds leave it in a superior financial position Hess Corporation and Global Infrastructure Partners have completed their joint venture deal to create a midstream energy company to serve the Bakken shale play. On Wednesday, the companies announced the completed transaction, which includes the previously announced sale of a 50 per cent interest in

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Naomi Klein featured at Vatican environment conference

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Naomi Klein says she never expected to be invited to the Vatican VATICAN CITY – The Vatican added yet another strange bedfellow to its expanding ecological alliance Wednesday, hosting Canadian anti-capitalist eco-crusader Naomi Klein at a conference on saving the planet. Klein, author of “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” acknowledged Wednesday that, “as a secular Jewish

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Toyota, Nissan, Honda collaborate on Hydrogen fuel cell technology

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Companies push toward a ‘hydrogen society’ TOKYO – Toyota, Nissan and Honda are working together to get more fuel cell vehicles on roads in what they call Japan’s big push toward “a hydrogen society.” Fuel cell vehicles emit no pollution. They run on the power created when hydrogen stored as fuel combines with oxygen in the air to

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How oil and gas industry is using technology to save water

Innovation

More efficient water use is win-win-win for oil and gas producers, communities Once considered hopelessly dependent on foreign imports, the United States has recently emerged as the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The “shale revolution”—made possible by technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking)—has changed not only America’s energy landscape, but also

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