Sentences with phrase «oilsands operations»

The company is also at the forefront of efforts to change the oilsands» poor environmental image, investing in the $ 1.35 - billion Quest project, which captures carbon emissions from oilsands operations and buries them beneath the surface.

To clear the cloud of cancer charges, it took a report by the independent Royal Society of Canada last December stating «there is no credible evidence to support the commonly repeated media accounts of excess cancer in Fort Chipewyan being caused by contaminants released by oilsands operations.»

Indeed, within just a few years there will be oilsands operations as clean as the only immediate alternative: imported conventional oil.

Already hurting from the drop in energy prices, the Alberta wildfires dealt a blow to the energy sector, forcing the evacuation of Fort McMurray and shutdown of several oilsands operations in the region.

It represents the next chapter in the years - long battle between Suncor and Unifor, Local 707A over whether random drug and alcohol testing at Suncor's oilsands operations in Alberta is a reasonable safety measure.

The answer to whether oilsands operations are more competitive than they used to be looks slightly different when you think about it that way, doesn't it?

Vredenburg says if these trends continue, Canadian oilsands operations could be competitive with respect to efficiency as measured by EROI.

«This new technology, carbon capture and storage, when fully commercialized... will collect carbon dioxide emissions from oilsands operations and coal - fired electrical plants and seal them deep underground.»

But last week, when it announced it would keep its key policy rate on hold, the central bank said the fires that devastated parts of Fort McMurray, Alta., and forced the shutdown of several oilsands operations would shave 1.25 percentage points off real GDP growth in the second quarter.

Shell's been working with the Alberta government and the Canadian government on the Quest carbon - capture and storage project at our oilsands operations.

In 2006, a physician working at a clinic in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., raised the alarm over what he considered high rates of cancer in the community, the result, he surmised, of water contamination from the oilsands operations upstream.

In the future, those emissions will instead be diverted to the biorefinery, where they, along with waste heat and water from the oilsands operations, will be filtered through vertical fences of glass tubes or «photobioreactors» filled with fast - growing algae.

Imperial says its upstream business, which includes its oilsands operations, lost $ 44 million compared with a loss of $ 86 million a year ago.

In fact, TRO is just one of many advancements different companies and researchers have developed in recent years not only to help remedy the sins of the past but to ensure the oilsands operations being started up today and in the near future will be substantially cleaner than the ones on which the popular image of the resource is based.

It also counted 180,000 barrels of upgraded oil per day from the oilsands operations it bought for about $ 11.1 billion in cash and shares from Royal Dutch Shell last spring.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

Continued expansion of the oilsands operations runs counter to this imperative, irrespective of whatever else we may be doing in Canada,» says University of Toronto climate scientist Danny Harvey.

«Coal power in Alberta puts nearly as much carbon into the air as all oilsands operations, so the impact of phasing out these massively polluting power plants and shifting to zero - emission power sources is a landmark step that will cut emissions and save lives.»

It will reduce CO2 emissions from Shell's oilsands operations by more than one million tonnes a year by capturing CO2 from its Scotford upgrader and permanently storing it deep underground.