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Dwindling water supplies push Alberta developers toward sustainability

2015-08-01 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: "Water is not necessarily a renewable resource any more," Ms. Oxtoby said. The City of Calgary has a population of 1.2 million people, with water rights for nearly three times that amount. However, Ms. Oxtoby's developments are just south of Calgary's border, in the Municipal District of Foothills - a distinction that could prove to be very expensive for her next project. In 2006, the province put a moratorium on the South Saskatchewan River Basin; water extraction is no longer allowed from...

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TransAlta plans review after Alberta ruling it shut down plants to raise prices

2015-07-29 19:35:38| Energy - Topix.net

TransAlta Corp. says it will undertake an independent review of its practices following the Alberta Utility Commission's conclusion that the company triggered outages at power plants to raise electricity rates . CEO Dawn Farrell said the actions that led to the case before the commission were stopped almost five years ago.

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TransAlta timed power outages to drive up prices: Alberta Utilities Commission

2015-07-28 01:24:12| Energy - Topix.net

A woman walks towards the entrance of the TransAlta headquarters building in Calgary, on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The Alberta Utilities Commission has concluded that TransAlta Corp. deliberately timed power outages at power plants at peak times in order to drive up electricity prices.

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Nexen: It May Take Months Pinpoint Cause of Alberta Oil Spill

2015-07-23 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Finding the root cause of the oil-sands pipeline leak discovered earlier this month in northern Alberta, one of the biggest oil-related spills on land ever in North America, will likely take months, a senior Nexen Energy executive said on Wednesday. Nexen, a subsidiary of China's CNOOC Ltd, is putting a higher priority on cleaning up the spill from its pipeline and investigating its cause than on restarting the Kinosis oil sands project where the spill took place, Ron Bailey, Nexen's senior vice...

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Millions of litres of oil, waste have spilled in Alberta in recent years

2015-07-17 22:47:26| Energy - Topix.net

Nexen Energy apologized Friday for a five-million-litre pipeline spill of bitumen, produced water and sand into muskeg at its Long Lake oilsands project near Fort McMurray. Here is a list of some other Alberta spills in recent years: March 2015: About 2.7 million litres of condensate used to dilute heavy oil was discovered near the muskeg's surface at Murphy Oil's heavy oil site, 80 kilometres northeast of Peace River.

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