Inter Pipeline project would provide bitumen transport services to FCCL Partnership Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Fund has entered into binding long-term commitments for an expanded oil sands pipeline system that would provide bitumen blend and diluent transportation services to the FCCL Partnership. The FCCL Partnership is a business venture between Cenovus Energy and ConocoPhillips. The plans [...]
Environmental concerns linger over Northern Gateway Pipeline B.C. has wrapped up its cross-examination at the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel hearings. Hearings have been taking place since last fall and covered everything related to the potential pipeline but the key issue surrounded environmental concerns and how Northern Gateway would handle a spill from the [...]
B.C. hoping for world-class land-based oil spill response strategy Representatives from local governments across B.C. as well as non-governmental environmental organizations, industry and First Nations are set to take part in a symposium to address the province’s ability to respond to and contain any potential land-based oil spills. The oil spill response symposium will take [...]
17 vessels available for Vancouver oil spill response Two unions and environmentalists lambasting Ottawa and the organization tasked with responding in the event of a Vancouver oil spill need to get their facts straight. The Harper Government is wearing a bit of egg on its face after an emergency response vessel ran aground for a few [...]
Oil tanker safety plan changes nothing in pipeline debate, says environmental group Last summer, B.C. Premier Christy Clark laid out five conditions she said must be met before the provincial government would allow the construction and operation of heavy oil pipelines within its borders. One of the conditions included improved oil tanker safety. Later today, [...]
Alaska-based Nuka Research hired to review BC oil spill reaction plans Oil spill prevention is once again taking centre stage in the province, the government is contracting an American firm to review the BC oil spill reaction plans. Alaska-based Nuka Research and Planning Group will conduct a study of vessel traffic, assess existing oil spill [...]
Next BC oil and gas rights sale set for March 27, three biggest bidders pay $2.5 million BC oil and gas rights to 17 parcels of land were sold by the province this month in the northeast part of the province and the sale has fetched more than $4.8 million in one-time revenue. After the [...]
Upgrading Alberta bitumen doesn’t make sense if you have spare refinery capacity in Texas By David Climenhaga The government of Alberta is “desperate” to get the province’s bitumen resources to market, as its media echo chamber relentlessly informs us. And it says it’s equally desperate to pop the “Bitumen Bubble,” the alliterative but misleading [...]
David Alward supports Alison Redford plans for pipeline east – ‘great for every Canadian’ By Christopher Walsh New Brunswick Premier David Alward says he’s on board with Premier Alison Redford’s goal of seeing Alberta bitumen piped east in an effort to open up new markets. Alward, who spent two days in Alberta including a [...]
Polluter pay law charges company, industry for spill clean-up not tax payers British Columbia environment minister Terry Lake suggested a polluter pay law as part of an oil spill contingency plan during a meeting with key industry representatives on Tuesday. Representatives from 13 major organizations including the BC Oil and Gas Commission, Canadian Fuels Association and [...]