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Alberta Oil and Gas Industry News |
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Energy and the Alberta Economy
Posted on: August 28, 2007 |
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The following executive summary refers to a
report from the Institute for Sustainable
Energy, Environment & Economy (ISEEE) at the
University of Calgary. The full report -
Energy and the Alberta Economy: Past and
Future Impacts and Implications - can be
found here. The authors are Robert Mansell
and Ron Schlenker, both economists from the
U of C. |
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As oil patch booms, so does drug abuse and
crime
Posted on: August 28, 2007 |
Even when living in the remote work camps of
northern Alberta, Ken was never far from his
next fix.
If cocaine wasn't being used inside his camp
of 3,000 oil workers in the outskirts of
Fort McMurray, it lingered just outside in
the pockets of the drug dealers who prowled
outside the gates like predators.
"I could get it quicker than I could get a
pizza," says Ken, not his real name. |
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Squeezing oil from stones
Posted on: August 28, 2007 |
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OSUM Oil Sands Corp. believes it might have
the answer to one of the oil patch's most
perplexing problems - extracting the
billions of barrels of crude trapped in
Alberta's limestone deposits. |
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Alberta oil spills, blowouts double in past
year
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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Alberta's oil patch recorded a dramatic
increase in blowouts and oil spills last
year, including a pipeline rupture worse
than the spill caused by CN Rail's 2005
train derailment near Wabamun Lake. |
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Three people killed in plane crash
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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EDMONTON — Five girls were orphaned Sunday
night when a single-propeller plane crashed
north of Swan Hills. Jean Dargis, 46, was
flying a four-passenger Cirrus SR 22 with
his wife Joanne, 45, and mother Anita, in
her 70s, when it crashed in a wooded, hilly
area just east of House Mountain Tower,
about 200 kilometers northwest of Edmonton. |
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Pipeline project proceeding as planned
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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Construction of an oil pipeline running from
Superior to Delavan is right on schedule,
according to Global Pipeline Partners
spokesman Thad Nation."We've got about 1,800
workers on the line right now. We're working
really on the full length of the line,"
Nation said. |
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Sour wells approved
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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West Energy Ltd. has been given conditional
approval to drill two sour crude oil wells
in an unprecedented decision by the Alberta
Energy and Utilities Board. The decision,
released Aug. 8, comes as a result of an
11-day hearing, which wrapped up on May 14,
between West Energy and concerned citizens
near the proposed well sites. West Energy
must comply with 10 “very strict conditions”
before getting the green light to start
drilling 3.2 km west of Rocky Rapids, said
EUB spokesperson Darin Barter. |
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Some Canadians protest oil pipeline
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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In South Dakota, Trans-Canada's Keystone
pipeline project is drawing attention for
its potential effect on landowners. But in
Alberta, Canada, where the pipeline will
draw its proposed 500,000 barrels per day
from northern oil sands, people see South
Dakota and other states benefiting from
their country's labor drain. |
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New announcements highlight Alberta worker
shortage
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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CALGARY - The announcement of some $40
billion worth of new energy industry
projects in the last two weeks, including
Shell Canada's plans to spend $27 billion to
construct a massive oil sands processing
unit at its Scotford upgrader near Edmonton,
has refocused attention on Alberta's ongoing
labour crunch. All told, oil sands projects
worth more than $130 billion are planned for
the next twenty years - and billions more
will be spent on energy-related projects
across the province over the same time
period. That has Albertans asking: where
will the workers come from? |
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Tiny Connacher bucks trend in oil sands
Posted on: August 16, 2007 |
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CALGARY -- Junior energy firm Connacher Oil
and Gas Ltd. has turned prevailing market
wisdom on its head, with the firm's new
small-scale, commercial crude project
showing that smaller companies can compete
with industry behemoths in Alberta's oil
sands. |
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