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Mike Klink’s opinion piece on the Keystone pipeline
Appeared in Journal Star on December 31, 2011. Klink says TransCanada does shoddy work with shoddy materials, spills a lot of oil out of their pipelines, and calls it success. Mike Klink: Keystone XL...
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PetroChina in Canadian oil sands
Oil & Gas Journal: “Petrochina snaps up…”.. Throws a new light on that supplier, eh.
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2011 API numbers
…show US, though producing more and consuming less, still importing over 11 mbd in 2011, with just over 2 mbd from Canada. Via Oil & Gas Journal. click to enlarge
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China moves into British Columbia
Adding to their already massive holdings in Alberta. Via Rigzone: http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114805&hmpn=1 See this also.
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Economic threshold of oil from Canadian tar sands
More commonly, less accurately known as oil sands. From Canada’s Energy Future (pdf), a 2011 report from the National Energy Board. The threshold will be highly dependent on the price of natural gas.
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Tar sands mining: peatland destroyed and stored carbon released
… They also say that the peatlands under consideration are currently holding on to 11-47 million metric tons of carbon that will be released into the atmosphere as part of the mining process. And then,...
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Who Owns the Tar Sands?
http://www.desmogblog.com/tar-sands-oil-companies-71-percent-foreign-owned-cue-ezra-levant-s-outrage In a recent Bloomberg interview, Dan Yergin suggested we consider Canada as “not a foreign country,”...
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More on China Buying Up Canadian “Oil Sands”
Recall that American consumers are (strongly) encouraged to think of Canadian production as domestic production. CNOOC’s blockbuster deal for Nexen, if nothing else, is a stark indication of how far...
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North American Energy Security
BEIJING- The chairman of China’s CNOOC Ltd. said Friday that he was confident that the state-controlled oil giant’s proposed $15.1 billion buyout of Canada’s Nexen Inc. would be completed by the end of...
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Still more North American energy security
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper approved Cnooc Ltd. (883)’s $15.1 billion takeover of Nexen Inc. (NXY) and Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s C$5.2 billion ($5.2 billion) takeover of Progress Energy...
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Canada-US pipeline map
The Pegasus line through Arkansas is spewing its contents into a subdivision. click to enlarge
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Don’t Worry, It’s Not Oil
I’m sure you’ll be able to sell your house, no problem.. Many photos of Exxon’s Mayflower, Arkansas spill (definitely not oil) via EPA On-site Coordinator website:...
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