Topic: Oil Production and Refining
Regulators approve Suncor oil sands expansions
Reuters Environmental Online Report
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Regulators have approved three expansion stages at Suncor Energy Inc's Firebag oil sands project that will eventually add output of 188,000 barrels of bitumen a day, Suncor said on Thursday. The production phases, given the green light by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, would ...
More regulation needed for Canada oil sands: report
Reuters Environmental Online Report
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Steam-driven projects to extract crude from Canada's oil sands, often held up as more environmentally friendly than mining, have major drawbacks of their own that require more stringent regulation to fix, an environmental think tank said on Wednesday. The Alberta-based Pembina Institute compared nine projects that ...
Va. gov McDonnell signs offshore energy bills
AP News
Gov. McDonnell signs bills intended to promote Virginia as an East Coast energy powerGov. Bob McDonnell signed into law Wednesday offshore drilling legislation intended to realize his goal of making Virginia the East Coast's energy superpower. The bills supporting offshore oil and gas exploration and directing royalties from drilling ...
Obama pushes senators for climate bill
AP News
Obama meets with key senators in bid to advance climate legislationPresident Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year. Fourteen senators from both parties — including several who remain undecided on ...
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