What if the wildfires raging in Fort McMurray hit the oil sands?
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If the current pricing trends continue, at least one of the proposed oil sands pipeline projects would no longer be needed
What are we going to do or not do?
Andrew Leach on extra upgraders
What students are talking about today (April 4th)
Grads are undertaking a different kind of activism—within resource companies
Environmental grads are employed where you’d least expect
While the honouring of Norman Bethune continues to cause a minor fuss, Elizabeth May questions Canada’s relationship to China.
The NDP has announced the details of Thomas Mulcair’s trip to Alberta. He will receive a helicopter tour of the oil sands tomorrow morning, followed by a tour of Suncor’s facilities (including the Flue Gas Desulphurization Unit, the mine complex, a virtual tour of the extraction process, an overview of the upgrading process, an overview of former Pond 1 reclamation and a discussion on tailings reduction operations). Then he will meet with the mayor of Fort McMurray and then he will depart for Edmonton for a meeting with the deputy premier. He’ll be joined by Peter Julian, Megan Leslie and Linda Duncan.
John Baird is wrong to say Canada is allowing Suncor to continue working in Syria out of humanitarian concerns
If Canada believes its sanctions are effective, it should be able to say so