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Alberta Government approves three new oil sands projects worth $3bn
2016-09-19 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The Alberta Government has approved three new thermal oil sands projects that jointly represent about C$4bn ($3bn) of potential investment in the Canadian province.
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GlobalData says oil sands projects in Canada to see $40.6bn CapEx between 2016 and 2025
2016-07-13 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
A new report released by global research and consulting firm GlobalData revealed that oil sands projects in Canada will see capital expenditure (CapEx) of $40.6bn out of a total $82.8bn between this year and 2025.
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Why heat, droughts and dwindling glaciers threaten Albertas oil sands
2016-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: But three interconnected threats may make the river`s flow far smaller in the future than it is today: Drought The Athabasca River`s flow has been measured since the early 1950s and water allocation decisions are based on that data, says University of Regina geography professor David Sauchyn. But recent research shows that recent decades have been a wet period. The region`s deeper history shows long, severe droughts. Sauchyn studied rings on trees in the Athabasca`s headwaters, in Jasper...
Report: Falling oil prices impede further development of Canadas Kearl oil sands project
2016-06-24 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The existing uncertainty in the global oil market coupled with high-supply costs of mining projects has resulted in the delay of phases three and four of Canadas Kearl oil sand project, says a GlobalData report.
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An Indigenous Environmental Activist Is Building a Solar Network in the Heart of Canadas Tar Sands
2016-06-19 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Last summer, in a remote Alberta First Nation surrounded by pipelines and increasingly plagued with oil spills and forest fires, workers wearing reflective vests attached 80 giant solar panels to 20-foot poles. Overseeing the operation and coordinating its documentation with a film crew was Greenpeace campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. "It's a big system," the 34-year-old Cree Lubicon woman told VICE from the job site last August. "It will probably be one of the biggest solar installations in...
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