January 2017

Advice to Alberta oil sands boosters: Let Jane Fonda be, you’ve won this war

Markham on Energy

Oil sands boosters are like Japanese nipponhei, loyally fighting long after the war is over Psst. Alberta oil sands boosters. Stop dissing Hanoi Jane. You’ve already won the bitumen and pipeline war, now you’re being an ungracious winner. Jane Fonda is coming to Alberta on Wednesday to “tour” Fort McMurray and the oil sands, then attend a Greenpeace […]

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Review process for Energy East pipeline faces legal challenge

Canada

Transition Initiative Kenora challenges Energy East CALGARY, Alberta, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A Canadian environmental group on Tuesday filed a legal challenge against the regulatory review of TransCanada Corp’s Energy East pipeline, seeking to restart what it calls a process tainted by bias. Transition Initiative Kenora’s motion to be filed to the National Energy Board

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$1 billion Texas carbon capture project to curb emissions, up oil recovery

USA

Texas carbon capture project used to extract crude from nearby oilfield By Ernest Scheyder THOMPSONS, Texas, Jan 10 (Reuters) – NRG Energy Inc and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp said on Tuesday they had begun operations at a $1.04 billion Texas carbon capture facility at a coal-fired power plant and were using the emissions

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Wisconsin tribe votes against renewing Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline agreements

Canada

Band calls for Line 5 pipeline to be decommissioned, removed By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta, Jan 9 (Reuters) – A Native American tribe in Wisconsin has voted against renewing agreements allowing Enbridge Inc to use their land for Line 5 pipeline, the latest sign of increasing opposition to North American energy infrastructure. The Bad River Band

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Done right, Alberta energy diversification strategy could actually work

Markham on Energy

Alberta energy diversification should include partial bitumen upgrading, petrochemicals, expansion of oilfield services/manufacturing Economic diversification rarely works. Canadian governments have wasted many billions over the decades, chasing this or that economic flavour of the week that never pans out. But the Alberta government finds itself in the unique position of being able to back an

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Colonial Pipeline shuts small gasoline line to Nashville after leak

News

Colonial Pipeline leak amounted to 15 barrels of gasoline NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Colonial Pipeline Co’s gasoline line between Atlanta and Nashville, Tennessee, remained shut on Monday as the company looked for the source of a very small leak in Chattanooga, a spokesman for the Chattanooga Fire Department said on Monday. Colonial Pipeline reported

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