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09/02/2010 - 23 hours ago Financial Post
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said his government will rewrite the rules governing water in the oil sands region should the province's own environmental data prove faulty when compared to a recent critical study out of the University of Alberta./
09/02/2010 - 23 hours ago National Post
Following news that four major U.S. consumer companies had announced a "boycott" against Alberta's oil sands crude, three Fortune 500 companies and the environmental group behind the alleged boycott are all distancing themselves from the whole matter, claiming it was a great big misunderstanding.
08/27/2010 National Post
Shell has started a commercial-scale deomnstration plant which it believes will dramatically speed up the process of cleaning up tailing ponds, and is willing to give the blueprints away to anyone, competitors included, for free.
08/21/2010 Financial Post
Organizations have been taking pot shots - as well as making reasonable and fair critiques - at the oil-sands industry for years. They reached out to Canadians on an emotional level. But the industry's wonky technical rebuttals went ignored.
Now, after two years of revamping its PR strategy, CAPP hopes it can trump, even pre-empt, its critics' charges.
08/12/2010 Financial Post
Peter Foster discusses the factual accuracy of the recent Corporate Ethics International campaign against the oil sands.
08/11/2010 Edmonton Journal
Canada has a unique opportunity to answer the growing global demand for energy in the face of unrealistic activist agenda pushing reliance on renewable energy. And the Canadian oil and gas industry is uniquely positioned to help meet this growth in demand and in doing so, is focused onthe three "E's" -- energy security and reliability, economic growth and environmental performance.
08/11/2010 Edmonton Journal
The villain of global warming is helping to reduce water use in oil sands operations. A new technique that uses carbon dioxide to hcange the water chemistry of its tailings to accelerate settling has significantly cut the amount of Athabasca River water needed by Canadian Natural Resources' Horizon plant.
08/10/2010 Calgary Herald
CAPP sees the addition of oil sands tailings data into the Canadian pollutant release inventory will increase the transparency of environmental reporting and highlight advances being made int he area of land reclamations.