Edmonton has added another big sports event to what is already going to be a busy September. And in the process is trying a ‘grow your own’ field of competitors. The FISE World Series is coming to Hawrelak Park for three days Sept 16-18 featuring extreme sports like BMX and skateboarding.
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India is in the process of surpassing China as the world’s most important country when it comes to analyzing energy markets. India’s consumption of various commodities such as coal and oil is still much smaller than China’s, but while China has dominated energy markets since the turn of the century, India’s rate of growth will be much more significant in the years ahead.
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Efficiency in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland’s rail services is about to get a major injection.
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At a time when the Saudis are desperately trying to hang on to their dwindling market share, it is intriguing to consider exactly why Russia and the OPEC nations are even discussing an oil production freeze, and what they hope to achieve, knowing that any increase in price will bring back the U.S. shale oil drillers with a vengeance, increasing the supply glut.
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Companies in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland are definitely feeling the crunch from the economic downturn, but not to the same extent as other parts of Alberta.
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The Tuesday, March 29 meeting of Devon’s town council began with a presentation from former town mayor Jeffrey Craddock.
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CALGARY — A new 63-room hotel in Bruderheim, Alta. will offer suites like any other — two queen sized beds, a private bathroom and an upscale kitchenette. But the Studio 6 hotel, slated to be completed this fall, won’t be your typical brick-and-mortar building.
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A park planned for the Hampton’s development in High River will be going ahead.
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In the three months since the U.S. lifted its 40-year ban on crude oil exports, a curious thing has happened. Rather than flooding global markets, U.S. crude shipments to foreign buyers have stalled. At the same time, imports into the U.S. jumped to a three-year high in what looks to be a reversal of a yearslong decline in the amount of foreign crude brought into the American market.
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Cut greenhouse gas emissions in New York by 40 percent by 2050. A commendable goal. But two of the four nuclear power stations in the state may close down by 2017.
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