CALGARY — The company that supplies gasoline and diesel through Fas Gas and Esso stations is jumping into liquefied natural gas retailing.
Red Deer-based Parkland Fuel Corp., Canada’s largest independent fuel distributor and marketer, said it has agreed with Shell Canada Ltd. to distribute the LNG it will start producing at its Jumping Pound facility near Cochrane next year.
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EDMONTON – Shell Canada has received regulatory approval to significantly increase bitumen production at an expanded plant near Peace River — an area where residents have raised a stink for three years about odours emanating from existing operations.
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Even bad weather couldn’t put a damper on the excitement as Shell Place, MacDonald Island’s newest expansion project, began to take form. On April 26th, the first large piece of steel was placed in the ground amid celebrations from residents and dignitaries alike.
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The former Shell gas station, that now sits empty along Highway 1A beside the KFC restaurant, will soon be demolished.
At a cost of no more than $80,000 (expected by administration to be more in the $60,000 range), the space will be used, at least for now, for a graveled, secondary parking access area for the KFC.
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Solar could overtake oil as the world’s dominant energy source by 2060 in one scenario envisioned by Royal Dutch Shell.
Renewables could make up as much as 30% to 40% of the global energy mix by 2060, as oil loses its reign as the world’s biggest energy source, the oil giant said in a forecast on the energy sector’s changing landscape.
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EDMONTON – Shell Canada came out swinging at critics of its proposed $12-billion Jackpine oilsands mine expansion, which calls for diversion of the Muskeg River and construction of a new lake to compensate for loss of fish habitat.
The project, 100 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, would bring in $17 billion in taxes and royalties over its lifespan and create 750 permanent jobs, Shell lawyer Shaun Denstedt said in final arguments to the joint review panel, consisting of Alberta Energy Resource Conservation Board and federal officials.
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The municipality has told Shell and the federal-provincial Joint Review Panel that it does not oppose the company’s proposed expansion, but the project brings concerns.
During a Tuesday morning hearing reviewing the project, municipal CAO Glen Laubenstein told the panel that the magnitude of growth from the oilsands has overwhelmed the province and the region.
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The expanded portion of the MacDonald IslandPark project now has a name.
During Saturday’s State of the Island gala, Shell Albian Sands announced it was entering a $2.5 million partnership with the facility, renaming the expansion as Shell Place.
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