On the heels of Friday’s report by No Drilling Lethbridge about the size of Goldenkey Oil’s mineral leases, Lethbridge NDP spokeswoman Shannon Phillips wonders what MLA Greg Weadick knew about it.
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Alberta, B.C. promise energy partnership to smooth differences, clean oil spills
Alberta and British Columbia pledged Monday to work together to deal with oil spills, promote energy awareness and bring Ottawa to the table financially as the two provinces continue to smooth over their differences relating to proposed pipeline projects to the west coast.
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Pipeline supporters say government report on risks of oil trains boosts Keystone XL
WASHINGTON – A government warning about the dangers of increased use of trains to transport crude oil is giving a boost to supporters of the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline.
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Why Long Term Energy Forecasts are Wrong
What is the correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy? There are clearly huge amounts of oil, coal, and natural gas in the ground. With different approaches, researchers can obtain vastly different indications. I will show that the real issue is most researchers are modelling the wrong limit.
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City facing uphill battle on drilling issue
A meeting place and a panel of energy industry experts will soon be announced, as city council continues its opposition to oil or gas drilling inside city limits.
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Shale Boom Prompts Calls for Expanded US Oil and Gas Exports
Early in January, the head of the influential energy lobby American Petroleum Institute (API) made a strong call for the US to become a global energy producer by capitalizing on the recent shale oil boom. In his speech, API President Jack Gerard argued for a reevaluation of the current limitation on the exports of US crude and for a full expansion of LNG exports.
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Groundwater testing remains a concern
The extent to which groundwater in Alberta has been affected by oil and gas development may never be known even though the province has recently made efforts to establish some baseline measurements.
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Oil Glut Threatens US Shale Revolution
The year 2014 could pose a milestone for the U.S. oil industry. In its latest annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency predicted that the U.S. would become the world’s largest producer of oil by 2015, thus surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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OPEC outages cut its oil output to below 2014 demand
OPEC has lowered its oil output further and is pumping less than this year’s global need for its crude, the exporter group said on Thursday, underlining the toll that outages in Libya and elsewhere are taking on production.
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No ‘plan B’ for Keystone XL, TransCanada CEO says
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling says the company doesn’t have a backup plan in case the Keystone XL pipeline isn’t approved, because the market forces in favour of shipping Canadian oil to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast are just too big to be denied.
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