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Alberta Fossils Boycott Whistler Conference After City Flags Climate Costs of Fossil Extraction
Several Alberta fossils are boycotting a CIBC investor conference in Whistler, British Columbia, and the bank is considering moving its annual event elsewhere, after ... -
CNRL Aims to Cut Costs with Driverless Truck Field Test
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) will spend C$75 million by late 2020 to field test driverless haulers at its Jackpine tar sands/oil sands mine ... -
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Notley Announces Mandatory Production Cuts to Drive Up Alberta Oil Price
Alberta will mandate an 8.7% reduction in oil production volumes, or 325,000 barrels per day, in the hope of driving up the price of ... -
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Brooks: Canada Must Plan for Oil and Gas Exit Rather Than ‘Urging Companies Onward’
Canada urgently needs an exit strategy from oil and gas, rather than allowing the industry and its massive environmental liabilities to continue growing, Environmental ... -
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Alberta Needs a Plan B Before Fossil Economy Collapses, Globe and Mail Columnist Warns
Alberta’s lack of a Plan B to prepare for the looming collapse of the fossil fuel economy received a stern response last week from ... -
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Climate Policies in Canada, Russia, China Would Drive Warming Above 5.0°C by 2100
Canada, Russia, and China are pursuing policies that would push average global warming about 5.0°C by 2100 if every country followed their lead, according ... -
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OPINION: Canadian Fossils ‘Lose Patience’ with Trudeau as World Oil Prices Drag Them Down
With world oil prices heading toward another crash, the swashbuckling free marketeers in Canada’s oilpatch are doing exactly what you would expect: amping up ... -
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Carbon Costs of Trans Mountain Could Hit $8.7 Billion Up Front, $4.1 Billion Per Year
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will trigger additional greenhouse gas emissions worth C$2.1 to $8.7 billion per year up front, and $675 million to ... -
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Cenovus Urges Government-Imposed Production Cuts to Drive Up Tar Sands/Oil Sands Revenue
One of the biggest fossils in the Canadian oilpatch, Cenovus Energy, is urging the Alberta government to impose temporary production cuts across the sector ... -
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Hyperbole Replaces Facts in Fossil Lobby Attack on Federal Impact Assessment Bill [Sign-On]
With a new fossil lobby group, Suits and Boots, urging Conservative senators to slow down passage of the Trudeau government’s new Impact Assessment Act, ... -
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Top Alberta Fossils Stayed ‘Incredibly Profitable’ Despite Oil Price Crash
Three of Canada’s top five tar sands/oil sands producers were “incredibly profitable” during the oil price crash and the continuing controversy over new export ... -
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Imperial Announces New Tar Sands/Oil Sands Project as CNRL Berates Competitors’ ‘Windfall Revenues’
Less than a week after two of Canada’s top five tar sands/oil sands producers announced they were cutting back production due to the low ... -
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Tar Sands/Oil Sands Look ‘Beyond Combustion’ for New Bitumen Products
Carbon fibre, pelletized asphalt, vanadium flow batteries, and polymers are on the list of possible products that Canadian tar sands/oil sands operators are considering ... -
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Canadian Fossils’ ‘Remarkable’ Production Cuts Show How a Managed Decline Could Work
Last Wednesday’s announcement by Cenovus Energy that it is cutting back its tar sands/oil sands production is a “remarkable” moment that shows how fossils ... -
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With 155,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells, Albertans Bear the Clean-Up Costs
Hot on the heels of National Observer’s report last week that clean-up costs in Alberta’s oilpatch could hit C$260 billion, a new investigation by ...
