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In Canada's Alberta province, oil sands boom is a two-edged sword

2013-10-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: In the Cree language, the word "athabasca" means "a place where grass is everywhere." Here in Alberta, the Athabasca River slices through forests of spruce and birch before spilling into a vast freshwater delta and Lake Athabasca. But 100 miles upstream, the boreal forest has been peeled back by enormous strip mines, where massive shovels pick up 100 tons of earth at a time and dump it into yellow trucks as big as houses. The tarry bitumen that is extracted is eventually shipped to refineries,...

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TransCanada leak in Alberta investigated

2013-10-18 12:16:31| Energy - Topix.net

"TransCanada has had a rupture on its NOVA gas transmission line system," said board spokeswoman Rebecca Taylor.

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TransCanada investigates natural gas pipeline leak in northern Alberta

2013-10-18 03:23:53| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The National Energy Board was investigating a leak in a TransCanada natural gas pipeline in a remote corner of northwestern Alberta on Thursday.

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TransCanada resumes gas deliveries following Alberta pipeline rupture

2013-10-18 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

Canadian energy firm TransCanada has restarted the delivery of gas to most of its industrial customers following an earlier pipeline rupture in northern Alberta.

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Alberta bitumen B.C.-bound one way or another, provinces agree

2013-10-17 10:20:04| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Ground shots showing the bitumen flow lines from a SAGD well pad to the Central Processing Facility at Nexen's Long Lake Phase 1 integrated oilsands facility in north eastern Alberta.

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