PetroChina to take oil sands stake for $1.7B

PetroChina Co., Asia's largest oil and gas company, is making a $1.7 billion investment in the Canadian oil sands.

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Oil sands company now says 1,606 ducks died

Eleven hundred more ducks died after landing on a toxic waste pond in northern Alberta last year than was originally estimated, a Canadian oil sands official acknowledged Tuesday.

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Further signs of stress in Canada's oil sands

Canada's booming oil sands industry showed more signs of cooling off Monday as crude prices continued their long plummet from record summer highs.

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Hundreds of ducks die after landing in oil sands in Canada

Canada's government was investigating an oil sands company after hundreds of ducks that landed on a partially frozen pond filled with toxic waste died.

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Canada's name may be mud heading into Monday's Copenhagen climate change talks. But a look back through history suggests any environmental praise that landed on Parliament Hill over the past dozen years has probably been undeserved

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Massive oil sands exploitation in Alberta is making Canada "one of the biggest climate criminals in the world" - it is having a deadly impact on Indigenous People and also threatens the biosphere and Humanity.

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PetroChina has agreed to buy a 60% stake in two planned Canadian oil sands projects for $1.7bn (£1bn). The firm, which is Asia's largest oil company, is buying the holdings in the MacKay River and Dover fields from Canadian firm Athabasca Oil Sands

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Alberta, Canada, has hired a team of consultants to improve the province's image in Washington ahead of climate-change talks.

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Even in a recession, the majority of Canadians believe that minimizing the environmental impacts of the oil sands is more important than maximizing profits from them, according to a recent Nanos poll. The poll randomly sampled 1,002 Canadians.

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Hyperion Power Generation Inc. has developed a garden shed-sized nuclear reactor that can produce enough heat to generate 25 megawatts of electricity for up to 10 years. That's enough energy to power 20,000 homes.

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As the massive yellow truck approaches the digger, it manoeuvres into position and honks its horn, signalling its readiness to receive a payload of 400 tonnes of black, oily sand.

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  Extracting the tarlike oil called bitumen and converting it into the light crude that refiners want is an energy-intensive process that annually produces as much carbon dioxide as 6 million cars.

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The bad news is that much of the good news about energy is wrong. Repeated so confidently by so many for so long, these fallacies have become a major obstacle to our preparation for peak oil.

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Canada's oil sands pose a significant investment risk as their development may be hampered by a government attempt to curtail the industry's rising carbon dioxide emissions, a report published Tuesday said.

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Support for Canada's oil sands is coming from an unexpected American group--an anti-poverty coalition led by African-American civil rights and faith leaders.

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As oil prices continue to reach record highs, the search for new sources of energy has led the world to Alberta, Canada, and its vast oil sands.

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Two years ago, the Alberta government parked a huge dump truck on the National Mall in Washington, announcing to U.S. lawmakers Canada was about to become the next big thing in global energy.

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"Canada is poised to become Venezuela north--without the loopy President and the dead-weight national oil company as unwanted partners--as the biggest oil boom in North American history hits terminal velocity. An estimated $124 billion will be invested from 2007 to 2012.

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One of the occupational hazards of working in the environmental trades is that your head is soon stuffed with acronyms.

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Ottawa (AFP) March 10, 2008 "Canada on Monday unveiled new environmental rules requiring future oil sands companies to capture and store carbon, and a ban on new construction of dirty coal burning power plants, both as of 2012. The two sectors are key emitters of greenhouse gas …

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Eventually, nuclear reactors may surround the crater 270 miles northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, delivering the power required to wring oil from sand.

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In Texas City, a small port town south of Houston near the Gulf of Mexico, a hub of refineries rises through the misty January air, billowing steam from scrubber towers.

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Oil sands, also referred to as tar sands or bituminous sands, are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen. On average bitumen contains 83.2% carbon, 10.4% hydrogen, 4.8% sulfur, 0.94% oxygen, and 0.36% nitrogen.

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A feisty 85 year old grandmother from Colorado is finding herself in the middle of a David vs. Goliath media battle with oil sands giant Syncrude regarding a website she built to demonstrate the environmental impacts of the company's operations.

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Canada's minority Conservative government, pressured to do more on the environment, will phase out some oil sands tax incentives, introduce rebates for hybrid vehicles, tax gas guzzlers and subsidize renewable fuels.

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A new task force funded by the Canadian government and the province of Alberta will study ways to capture and store greenhouse gases emitted by the province's massive oil sands projects, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.

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Nicole Foster Woollatt: Big oil's pipeline to Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party

In Canada, the Liberal Party sits in opposition. Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion has made it clear, either in his own words or through his point man, Mark Holland, that Canada's oil industry must restrain itself in order for Canada to meet Kyoto commitments.

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U.S. Plan to Make Canada its Energy B*tch

"Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

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