Exploration for natural gas causes consternation in Quebec
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.
Tradeoffs in offshore drilling
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.
Quebec seeking offshore deal
By JONATHAN MONTPETIT, Halifax Chronicle Herald, July 30, 2010
MONTREAL — Negotiations have been launched between the federal government and Quebec in an attempt to strike an offshore drilling deal similar to those that have enriched Atlantic provinces.
Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells
By JEFF DONN and MITCH WEISS, Associated Press, July 8, 2010
Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells
Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
Naomi Klein, The Guardian, June 19, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism
One killed in gas line explosion
From Staff Reports, Cleburne Times-Review, June 8, 2010
One person was killed and eight others were sent to hospitals on Monday in a natural gas explosion that generated a towering flame that could be seen from miles around.
Door kept ajar on drilling
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, June 4, 2010
Despite the spectre of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- where oil is spewing from a destroyed BP well -- the federal and provincial governments aren't closing the door on oil drilling off B.C.'s coast or supertankers plying the province's tricky northern waters.
Feds watered down regulations governing East Coast offshore drilling
By Andrew Mayeda, Vancouver Sun, June 3, 2010
OTTAWA — The Harper government has watered down regulations governing oil drilling off Canada's East Coast so that oil companies don't need a backup plan to drill a relief well in the event of a blowout.
BP Ready for Spill 10 Times Gulf Disaster, Plan Says
Bloomberg News, San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2010
May 31 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc said in permit applications for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that it was prepared to handle an oil spill more than ten times larger than the one now spewing crude into the waters off the southern United States.
No moratorium on offshore oil exploration in Canada's Arctic
ANDREW MAYEDA, Vancouver Sun, May 28, 2010
The federal government is moving ahead with plans to grant new offshore oil-exploration licences in Canada's Arctic, despite the U.S. government's expanding freeze on offshore drilling after the Gulf Coast spill.
The Northwest Passage: crude oil's next toilet?
By L. D. CROSS, The Hill Times, May 17, 2010
Whether it is the Northwest Passage or, the Canadian Arctic Passage, an oil spill on the scale of the Gulf of Mexico disaster would permanently contaminate the top of the world.
Offshore drilling in Canada 'fraught with peril': critics
By HARRIS MACLEOD, The Hill Times, May 17, 2010
House Natural Resources Committee begins hearings into offshore drilling, after massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
