Oilsands

Alberta's energy regulator is confirming that hazardous chemicals are present in a small waterbody after two releases of tailings-contaminated wastewater from Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine.

Deborah is the former editor of jwnenergy.com and oilsands editor for the Daily Oil Bulletin.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants to set up a new group with the Alberta government and Indigenous communities to monitor and oversee contamination problems in the oilsands.

Imperial Oil’s president and CEO described the failure to alert downstream communities to toxic oilsands tailings leaks as a “communication breakdown” during his testimony on Parliament Hill on Thursday.

No phaseout targets or timelines for the oilsands or other sectors in the 32-page document; no universal job totals; no new spending by Ottawa.

TD Securities analyst Menno Hulshof pointed out that Kruger has deep knowledge of the oilsands, with Imperial and Suncor having assets next to each other in the region and refineries in the same jurisdiction.

The Alberta Energy Regulator says it’s looking for an investigator to dig into releases of oilsands tailings and tailings-contaminated water that weren’t made public for nine months.

The largest recorded earthquake in Alberta's history was not a natural event, but most likely caused by disposal of oilsands wastewater, new research has concluded.

Why not for oilsands reclamation?

CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. filed a disclosure document last year laying out what would happen if extreme weather were to force a 10-day shutdown of its massive Base Plant oilsands mine in northern.

I had sneered as my high school classmates disappeared, heading west for jobs in the oilsands, and turned up my nose when my siblings left Newfoundland for employment in Nova Scotia.

Industry figures suggest the oilsands release about 68 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, over 10 per cent of all Canadian emissions.

In the1990s, it was the Alberta oilsands that captured Newfoundland's collective imagination with their hefty paycheques.

Liggio’s team used 30 airplane overflights in the spring and summer of 2018 to sample and analyze what was in the air over a series of oilsands operations, open-pit and in situ.

Oilsands production will become increasingly concentrated as high-cost producers and production fall away.

Alberta Energy Regulator has suspended a wide array of environmental monitoring requirements for companies in the oilsands.

At the federal level, outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of driving away investment due to his "weakness and fear" in dealing with opponents of oilsands development.

Between March and the middle of July, the United Conservative government and the province's energy regulator suspended a wide array of monitoring activities required of oilsands companies as conditions of their operating licences.

But it is still well short of millions of tonnes in GHGs that would come from its Frontier project alone (Teck also has a stake in the Fort Hills oilsands mine, operated by Suncor Energy).

CALGARY -- Analysts say oilsands producers are likely losing money or barely breaking even as prices for Western Canadian Select bitumen-blend crude dipped as low as US$3.82 per barrel on Monday.