Energy in BC & beyond

Globe and Mail, Sep. 02, 2010

A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, Canadian coast guard officials confirmed Thursday.

The Canadian-registered vessel, named 'Nanny,' hit a sandbar Wednesday in the area near Simpson Strait, Nunavut. It was carrying supplies to Northern communities.

By Evan Halper, Marc Lifsher and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, September 2, 2010

Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.

Laura Bassett, Huffington Post, September 2, 2010

Proposition 23, the so-called "California Jobs Initiative" threatening to suspend some of California's unprecedented clean air and renewable energy legislation, is raking in millions of dollars from Texas oil companies and special interest groups in the Midwest that stand to profit from rolled-back environmental regulation.

David Hammer, The Times-Picayune, September 02, 2010

A shallow-water production rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning, causing the thirteen crew members aboard to abandon the structure.

Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, Sep. 01, 2010

House committee members say company asked Michigan residents near spill site to sign waivers against further liability

CBC News, September 1, 2010

Review body accuses federal government of not being transparent

By Shaun Thomas, The Northern View (Prince Rupert), August 31, 2010

Hundreds of people gathered outside of Riverlodge in Kitimat today to protest plans for the Enbridge Northern Gateway while a hearing hosted by the Joint Review Panel took place inside.

By Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, August 30, 2010

Matt Simmons understood the wages of addiction and wasn't afraid to sound warnings, even to George W. Bush.

Josh Wingrove, Globe and Mail, August 30, 2010

Finding refutes long-standing claims that water quality hasn’t been affected by oil sands development

By Edward Welsch, Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2010

CALGARY (Dow Jones)--Canadian natural gas company EnCana Corp. (ECA) pleaded guilty to the deaths of 55 birds at its plants in Colorado and Wyoming, and agreed to spend more than $3 million on bird protections in those states.

Les Perreaux, Globe and Mail, August 30, 2010

In most places west of Manitoba, the arrival of yet another oil or gas drilling rig is cause for little notice or concern. In Quebec, a half dozen gas wells and the potential of hundreds more may be about to set off a new kind of identity crisis.

Chris Killian, Kalamazoo Gazette, August 28, 2010

MARSHALL — About 100 miles east of the site where the Enbridge Inc. pipeline recently ruptured, company officials in December 2009 found an anomaly in the same line that led them to reduce the pressure there by 90 percent, according to a company document.

By Jes Abeita, Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010

Almost half of B.C. residents oppose two proposed pipeline projects and only one-third support them, a poll released Friday by Angus Reid indicates.

CAEPLA Connections, Canadian Association of Energy and Pipeline Landowners Assocations, August 2010

BIV Business Today, 27 August 2010

When Bill Bennett was appointed B.C.’s minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources in June, one of the first questions he asked the executive team of BC Hydro was: If you tally up all the energy projects in development in B.C., including Site C, including the independent power producers that have energy purchase agreements and including all the scheduled dam expansions, will B.C. attain energy self sufficiency?

Jeff Nagel, BC Local News, August 27, 2010

Three Metro Vancouver mayors will go to Victoria Wednesday to present their controversial waste plan opening the door to increased garbage incineration.

Vancouver Sun, August 25, 2010

VANCOUVER — The provincial government has signed two revenue-sharing agreements with two first nation communities in the last two days for specific mining projects within the areas the groups claim as traditional territory.

TODD SPANGLER, Detroit Free Press, August 25, 2010

WASHINGTON – A pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River late last month has a dent in a section that runs under the St. Clair River where it crosses from southeastern Michigan into Canada, a Michigan congresswoman revealed today.

Terry Macalister, guardian.co.uk, 24 August 2010

Cairn Energy's gas find sparks hopes that Greenland can ditch its reliance on fishing and tourism

Richard Wray, guardian.co.uk, 24 August 2010

• Cairn says well has found gas and oil-bearing sands in Arctic
• Greenpeace ship already in area protesting against drilling

John Vidal, guardian.co.uk, 22 August 2010

• Oil giant blamed for 10% of 9m barrels leaked in 40 years
• Report claims rest of leaking oil caused by saboteurs

By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun August 21, 2010

The federal government has pumped $9 million into a training program for up to 600 aboriginal workers for the $1.2-billion Pacific Trail Pipeline project, MP Jay Hill announced Friday in Prince George.

By Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers, August 18, 2010

WASHINGTON — Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater region that abounds with marine life — and possibly with oil, gas and minerals.

By Carrie Tait, Financial Post, August 18, 2010

CALGARY -- Canada’s offshore drilling rules must not be so stringent that the industry is hampered and must find a balance between environmental restrictions and economic benefits, a Senate committee said Wednesday.

By Dina omeara, Calgary Herald, August 18, 2010

Insurance expected to cover 90 per cent of costs

Clean up costs of an oil spill into Michigan waters could reach up to $400 million, not including environmental fines, according to a subsidiary of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.