CALGARY – Royal Dutch Shell PLC told regulators it is halting work on its Pierre River mine in northern Alberta’s oil sands and that it has no idea when it may revive the blueprints.
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CALGARY – Royal Dutch Shell PLC told regulators it is halting work on its Pierre River mine in northern Alberta’s oil sands and that it has no idea when it may revive the blueprints.
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EDMONTON – The oilsands, Canada’s biggest industry, make an economic contribution to the country that in 2012 was far greater than Saskatchewan’s, a new study has determined.
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WASHINGTON — The often-delayed, hotly debated Keystone XL pipeline has taken one step closer to completion.
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When Alberta’s oilsands construction projects ground to a halt in late 2008 as prices collapsed, Edmonton-based electrical engineering and testing firm Magna IV received the same dreaded letter that went to every other contractor on Suncor’s Voyageur and Firebag projects.
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EDMONTON – Five years ago his phone hardly ever rang, but these days Neil Shelly is constantly dealing with companies looking to invest in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.
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Provincial and federal environment ministers agreed Thursday there are no plans to slow down expansion of the oilsands, even as a former Fort McMurray MP says explosive growth needs to cool off to allow the area’s infrastructure to catch up.
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The southern portion of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline officially opened on Wednesday, pumping oil from the distribution hub of Cushing, Okla., to refineries on the American Gulf Coast.
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The Redford government will co-host a World Economic Forum regional meeting on energy, climate change and innovation in Lake Louise on April 24 and 25.
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EDMONTON – Residents of Fort McMurray don’t enjoy the same quality of life as people elsewhere in the country because the oilsands are being developed too fast, the area’s former Member of Parliament says.
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TORONTO — The chief executives of two of Canada’s biggest energy companies say Canadians should be outraged by criticism of the oilsands.
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