Energy

Mackenzie pipeline panel faces further delays
Last Updated: Thursday, June 14, 2007 | 11:06 AM CT
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/06/14/panel-delays.html#skip30...

The panel reviewing the proposed Mackenzie gas project says it needs more time before it can finalize its hearing schedule.

The joint review panel, which is looking at the environmental and social impacts of the $16.2-billion project, has been criticized for taking much longer to do its job than originally anticipated.

IT'S TIME FOR ALBERTANS TO DRAW A LINE IN THE (TAR) SAND
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=6589
BILL MOORE-KILGANNON / pialberta.org

There once was a thin red line on a map. That may sound like the start of a fairy tale, but in fact it is the real beginning of a critical debate about Alberta’s energy future.

Globe and Mail June 8, 2007
Environmental cost of tar sands too high, U.S. report says
By Bob Weber
Edmonton -- One of the most influential environmental groups in the
United States is training its sights on Alberta's oil sands in an
attempt to persuade Americans to stop increasing their dependence on
"bottom-of-the-barrel" energy.
A report by the Natural Resources Defence Council to be released
Monday at a symposium in Washington, has been obtained by The Canadian
Press. The report potentially damages the market for oil sands oil by

Copyright 2007 The Globe and Mail
June 11, 2007 Monday
ANDREW NIKIFORUK
Calgary journalist and columnist for Canadian Business magazine
Is Canada the latest emerging petro-tyranny?

Every day, the First Law of Petropolitics quietly insinuates its way
into the nation's political blood like a rogue parasite. The law,
first coined by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, posits that
the price of oil and the quality of freedom invariably travel in
opposite directions.

As the price of crude oil goes higher in an oil-dominated kingdom,

How Shell First Tripped Over Saskatchewan's Oilsands

Robert Gies //Market Commentary // June 4, 2007
http://www.dobmagazine.nickles.com/columns/column.asp?article=magazine%2...

Hot granite and steam could clean up oil sands
May 30, 2007 04:30 AM
Tyler Hamilton // http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/219133
Energy Reporter

The first commercial geothermal facility in the Alberta oil sands could be pulling heat out of the ground and displacing the use of natural gas as early as 2012, according to the head of an oil-company consortium established to investigate the emission-free energy source.

June 4, 2007
Enbridge to build Alberta Clipper
http://dcnonl.com/article/id22587
Daily Construction News
CALGARY

Enbridge Inc. has filed an application with the National Energy Board for the construction and operation of the Canadian segment of the Alberta Clipper Project, a proposed 1,607-kilometre expansion project to provide greater access for Western Canadian crude oil to U.S. Midwest markets.

Ottawa is missing the boat on climate change
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/221119
Jun 04, 2007 04:30 AM
David Crane

A key to dealing with climate change is to design new technologies, from innovations for energy efficiency, new forms of clean energy such as fuel cells, or ways to make energy products such as coal and oil "clean."

Ban doesn't apply in this case, ministers say
Moratorium 'applies only to southbound oil-tanker traffic'
Christina Montgomery, The Province
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=8eab3918-c7b2-49ca-...

When is a moratorium not a moratorium? Apparently, when governments decide it's just a "policy."