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“I didn’t come to Fort McMurray [Alberta] for the money. I thought I could have a positive impact on reducing the environmental footprint of our [oilsands] operations.”
One of the most significant players in the oilsands industry is also among Canada’s largest natural gas producers—and enhancing efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is an investment for both plays.
A new surface water quality monitoring program for the Lower Athabasca River in the heart of Alberta’s largest oilsands region released in March by federal Environment Minister Peter Kent will be incorporated into the work of a revamped provincial monitoring program, says the province’s environment minister.
Generations of lynxes, moose, deer, foxes and bears have come to take Imperial Oil Limited’s in situ oilsands installation at Cold Lake, Alta., for granted.
Christine Daly never expected to be working for Suncor Energy, Inc., or any oilsands company, for that matter. The 31-year-old, who holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and master’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Windsor, was raised in Tecumseh, Ont. Her expectation was to conduct research on the Great Lakes for most of her life, but a summer working for Suncor changed her path, leading her to embrace an opportunity to effect change from inside industry.
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Alberta's official opposition Wildrose party is calling for the Alberta government to release a report on pipeline safety in the province following the release of an estimated 950 bbls of condensate Friday from a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline in northern Alberta -- the second pipeline spill in Alberta this month.
When Emily Jobson sent out a call for survey respondents for her master's theses on the socio-environmental impact of increasing water use for Duvernay development, only 3.2 per cent of those 1,360 canvassed chose to respond. However, the Chevron Corporation intermediate environmental specialist and grad student believes such minimal response could be interpreted as a positive opportunity for the industry to gain highly sought after social license.
Kinder Morgan Canada Inc.'s Trans Mountain pipeline has been shut down following the discovery during routine maintenance Wednesday of a small amount of light oil on the surface of its right-of-way in a remote area near Kingsvale, British Columbia.
Apache Canada Ltd. says that clean-up and remediation efforts continue following the release of nearly 60,000 bbls (9,500 cubic metres) of treated produced water over an estimated 42-hectare site in the Zama operations area.
None of Alberta's oilsands mines has met the Energy Resources Conservation Board's deadline for reducing their tailings ponds, mostly because of start-up difficulties with their technology.
"The ever-present potential for structural failure of the tailing ponds will pose risks, both large and growing, of environmental catastrophe" in the Mackenzie River Basin, according to a report of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy.
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