Tyee: The Alberta energy regulator has suspended the fastest-growing source of bitumen production around Fort McMurray due to concerns about fracturing the regions cap rock.
Last January, the regulator quietly issued a bulletin announcing the freeze on development in the Wabiskaw-McMurray deposit of the Athabasca Oil Sands Area while it completes a thorough technical review of the factors that affect reservoir containment of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects.
The suspension affects...