Energy

Pipeline plan concerns Highland officials
By Terry Hillig
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/06/2008

HIGHLAND — Officials are wary of a plan to build a crude oil pipeline beneath Silver Lake, which is Highland's public water supply, but City Manager Mark Latham believes an agreement can be reached with the pipeline developer that will protect the city and its residents.

Keystone Pipeline spokesman Jim Prescott says there is little to be worried about. He says the chance of a leak that would contaminate the lake is remote.

Oil Shale: Viable Domestic Energy, Or ‘Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet’
By Jad Mouawad
September 30, 2008, 10:40 am

A ban on the development of oil shale — rock from which oil is melted and extracted for energy use — is about to expire.

After months of bitter wrangling, a quarter-century ban on offshore drilling along most of the nation’s coastline will expire at midnight tonight.

Canada to Curb Tar Sands Exports?
September 30, 2008, 2:59 pm
By Clifford Krauss // New York Times

Canada prides itself on its clean-and-green bona fides, and its ratification of the Kyoto protocol a few years back came in sharp contrast to the Bush administration’s dismissal of the agreement.

But the country’s rapid expansion of oil sands development, a great emitter of greenhouse gases, has strangely escaped much political debate — even though it is a major reason why Canada cannot meet its Kyoto targets.

First Nations could benefit from Alaska Highway pipeline
Last Updated: Thursday, October 2, 2008
CBC News

A Canadian company that's in the running to build a natural gas pipeline along the Alaska Highway says it won't get involved with land claims with First Nations along the proposed route, but will offer commercial benefits instead.

Making the remarks Thursday in Whitehorse, TransCanada Corp. vice-president Tony Palmer said the company would offer benefits, whether affected First Nations have settled their land claims or not.

Indian blockades slow work on crude pipeline
October 02, 2008

Enbridge Inc. says Indian blockades in Saskatchewan have forced the
company to halt most construction on its $3 billion Alberta Clipper
pipeline project.

The pipeline will carry 450,000 barrels of oil-sands crude from
Hardisty, Alta, to Superior, Wis., in two locations: just outside the
provincial capital of Regina and near Kerrobert, in western
Saskatchewan.

"These demonstrations have restricted access to our heavy equipment
coming and going from staging sites," said Glenn Herchak, a

Ottawa keeps pipeline projects on hold, industry says

Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, October 01, 2008

CALGARY -- Pipeline projects in Canada need timely government decisions, said Brenda Kenny, the president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.

In speech in Calgary Wednesday, she said the penalty for delays is cost overruns and uncertainty.

"We are poised at this critical juncture to build the infrastructure necessary to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy to all Canadians," she said.

Canada Stocks Fall, Led by Suncor, Bombardier; Manulife Gains
By John Kipphoff

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian stocks extended their decline, after the biggest monthly drop in a decade, as energy producers and industrial companies fell on concern that the $700 billion U.S. rescue plan for banks won't stave off a recession.

Candidates speak in Fort Providence
Andrew Livingstone
Northern News Services
Published Monday, September 29, 2008

DEH GAH GOT'IE KOE/FORT PROVIDENCE - Candidates vying the Western Arctic's lone seat in Parliament got a chance Wednesday to show their colours at a federal candidates forum in Fort Providence.

All five candidates to appear on the ballot Oct. 14, including First Peoples Party of Canada candidate Noeline Villebrun were in attendance to answer questions from the Fort Providence community.

Rail upgrade to Fort McMurray almost complete
David Finlayson, edmontonjournal.com
September 30, 2008

EDMONTON - The $135 million upgrade of the former Athabasca Northern rail line to Fort McMurray is 75 per cent complete and CN has commitments from oilsands customers to ship sulphur and petroleum coke to Asia, executive vice-president Jim Foote said today.

Coming the other way will be construction materials and diluent, a petroleum product used to thin out bitumen so it can to move through pipelines, Foote said.

Teck scraps Cominco brand, recasts business unit structure
Oct 1 2008

VANCOUVER — Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) is eliminating Cominco from its name and announcing a five-division structure to reflect its growth through acquisitions.

The five divisions specialize in copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, gold and energy, and the new name and logo "more accurately reflect Teck's diversified portfolio of commodities," the company said Wednesday.