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Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record? Hydraulic fracturing, a technology used to crack open difficult oil and gas formations, appears to have set off a swarm of earthquakes near Fox Creek, Alberta, including a record-breaking tremor with a felt magnitude of 4.4 last week. That would likely make it the largest felt […]
Tanking Asia Gas Prices Makes BC LNG ‘Not Viable,’ Expert Says
Tanking Asia Gas Prices Makes BC LNG ‘Not Viable,’ Expert Says A liquified natural gas industry, as currently promoted by British Columbia’s Liberal government, is not viable at current natural gas prices, and the proposed industry tax regime actually “gives a subsidy to the LNG industry,” according to a royalty expert. Jim Roy, a former […]
Alberta One Of Hardest Hit By Lower Oil Prices
Alberta One Of Hardest Hit By Lower Oil Prices The week ending Jan. 17 was a bad one for Alberta, the Canadian province that once was enjoying an oil boom. Schlumberger, the oil services giant in Canada’s west, cut spending dramatically, postponed projects in the region and announced 9,000 layoffs for its worldwide operations. Suncor Energy […]
2015: The Year We Turn Away from Tar Sands
2015: The Year We Turn Away from Tar Sands In 2014 Naomi Klein popularized the term “blockadia” in her book This Changes Everythingusing the term as a sort of catch-all to describe the grassroots insurgency emerging across the globe in the face of extreme energy development. This past year also saw the continued desperate push by tar […]
Falling Oil Prices Could Rock Canada’s Politics: Expert | The Tyee
Falling Oil Prices Could Rock Canada’s Politics: Expert | The Tyee. What do the plummeting oil prices tell us not only about our near term economic future in Canada, but the political fragility of the world’s petro states? If Canada fully joins the petro state club, as our prime minister and his party desire, is […]
Energy East Pipeline is Unsafe and Unwanted | Stéphane Brousseau
Energy East Pipeline is Unsafe and Unwanted | Stéphane Brousseau. TransCanada’s strategy to hoister its Energy East pipeline on the Quebec public has been unmasked, and Quebecers don’t buy the company’s sales pitch. Quebec citizens, not to mention citizens worldwide, have done their homework and based on the science, the facts and the statistics are keenly aware […]
Alberta Pipeline Spills 60,000 Litres Of Crude Into Muskeg, Says Energy Regulator
Alberta Pipeline Spills 60,000 Litres Of Crude Into Muskeg, Says Energy Regulator. RED EARTH CREEK, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator says close to 60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled into muskeg in the province’s north. An incident report by the regulator states that a mechanical failure was reported Thursday at a Canadian Natural […]
Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov’t in Landmark Fracking Case | The Tyee
Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov’t in Landmark Fracking Case | The Tyee. A landmark lawsuit that challenges the lax regulation of hydraulic fracturing in Canada has just scored a major victory. In a lengthy decision, Alberta Chief Justice Neil Wittmann dismissed all key arguments made by the government of Alberta against the lawsuit of Jessica […]
