The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at
its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Alberta oil sands operations extract around 95 % of Canada's oil.
Not exact matches
With
oil sands operations currently emitting roughly 70 Mt / year, the
Alberta Climate Leadership Plan leaves «room» for emissions from the
oil sands to grow by 30 Mt / year.
It remains to be seen, therefore, what sort of carbon price signal an individual
oil sands operation would be exposed to under the
Alberta Plan and whether it will be sufficient to drive technological innovation in the sector.
This is despite the efficiency gains have been realized for in situ
oil sands operations and bitumen upgrading facilities, driven in part by
Alberta's Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.
Devon's Canadian
operations are located in the Athabasca
oil sands of northeast
Alberta.
If there's a bright spot for the province, however, it's that the ongoing disruption of
Alberta oil sands production — estimated by the Conference Board of Canada to be about 1.2 million barrels a day, comprising nearly $ 1 billion in economic activity — has contributed to a rally in global
oil prices that could give producers, and therefore the
Alberta economy, a badly - needed lift once production is finally back on - line (assuming, of course, the fires are eventually extinguished and
oil sands operations escape serious damage).
The extraction and processing of a viscous
oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of
sand just below the surface of
Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other
oil operations.
With Suncor is positioned nicely from a reserve standpoint, with
operations in northern
Alberta (which is second only to Saudi Arabia in production among
oil sands regions), its valuation should rise to be more in line with peers, especially as supermajors continue to battle it out for conventional reserves.
But Suncor's bread and butter is its Fort McMurray properties in northern
Alberta, where the company runs the world's largest
oil sands operation.
Keith is one of the only financial reporters around who's actually visited
Alberta's remote tar
sands region to personally meet every major player in the booming Canadian
oil operation.
Similarly, Canada has been aggressive in funding research like Mercier's and carbon capture research on
oil sands operations via national funds and a $ 2 billion money pot from
Alberta, said the analyst.
Business Insider reporter Robert Johnson tried to get a tour of the
Alberta tar, err,
oil sands operations, but was denied.
However,
Alberta environment office show that «greenhouse gas» emissions from
oil sands plummeted 38 % between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5 % of Canada's total GHG emissions — and equal to or lower than CO2 / GHG emissions from petroleum
operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
Energy
Alberta Corporation (Energy
Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the
oil sands operations in
Alberta.
A time - lapsed map released today by the World Resources Institute using satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern
Alberta to make way for major industrial
operations, mainly to extract
oil from the tar
sands, also referred to as the oilsands.
After 41 years of
oil sands mining
operations in northern
Alberta only 0.2 % or one square kilometer of disturbed land is certified as reclaimed.
For example,
Alberta's energy regulator told many
oil sands operators in July that they can't divert water from the Athabasca, Peace and Wabasca rivers for use in their
operations.
Oil - sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light - oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewat
Oil -
sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light -
oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewat
oil production and the strip - mining
operations involved destroy the landscape in northern
Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewater.
Suncor conducts
operations in the Athabasca
oil sands near Fort McMurray,
Alberta.
Represented leading
oil sands owner in drafting and negotiating master EPCM, turnaround, design - build, temporary accommodation and other agreements for use on new projects and existing
operations in the
Alberta oil sands.