bitumen
Why oil sands protesters and companies both get it wrong
With his book The Patch, environmental writer Chris Turner makes a plea for realism in the noisy, misguided proxy war over pipelines
Does spilled pipeline bitumen sink or float?
A scientist seeks to answer this pressing environmental question amid a national pipeline debate
Banning crude exports would be stupid, but don’t take my word for it
Sometimes consultants say the damndest things.
Refine it where you mine it? The value-adders are back.
We should be finding the most lucrative markets for our bitumen and charging an appropriate rate to extractors, writes Andrew Leach
‘How large will the oil sands sector grow?’
Andrew Leach prepares to stand before the Natural Resources Committee
Alberta’s taxpayer-financed refinery: value-added job creator or boondoggle?
5 questions for Alberta’s new energy minister
Booms, busts, and mantra about bitumen
Andrew Leach on a new report from the Pembina Institute and Equiterre
What Alberta’s Energy East agreement really means
What happens to the oil once it gets east?
After the oil boom
Canada can no longer count on oil to produce jobs
What happened to the bitumen export ban?
During the 2008 campaign, Stephen Harper promised to ban the export of raw bitumen to countries with weaker emissions targets.
The EU has a point about the oilsands
Trying harder to clean up our act in Alberta would help our PR efforts
Though the heavens fall
Having stuck up for Syncrude in the early stages of the blind, agonizing struggle over the Case of the Bitumen-Bathed Birds, I ought to express my disapproval of the high-pitched political threats made yesterday by the consortium’s lawyer, Robert White. White told the press that “If… Syncrude is guilty of this crime, the government is complicit and the industry is doomed… If by having a tailings pond we’re guilty of this charge, we have to stop having tailings ponds.”