oil-sands

• “The buzz about Hong Kong's market for initial public offerings is luring Sunshine Oilsands Ltd., an early-stage Canadian oil-sands company that could lose some of its land to a preserve for caribou.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Sunshine Oilsands Eyes $1 Billlion IPO

• “Last year, state-owned Corp. bought a 9% stake in Syncrude, Canada's largest oil-sands project, for US$4.65 billion.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Sunshine Oilsands Eyes $1 Billlion IPO

• “Environmental groups have said production of the oil-sands crude greatly increases greenhouse-gas emissions.”

  The Wall Street Journal: EPA Urges More Scrutiny of Pipeline Expansion

• “If the US government goes ahead and makes it easier to develop that oil-sands project, then there is no credible way to insist that they're working hard on climate change, McKibben told the crowd.”

  The Guardian: Thousands protest at the White House against Keystone XL pipeline

• “A few months later, CIC invested $416 million in Calgary, Alberta, oil-sands company Penn West Energy Trust and $200 million in Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Corp.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Closes In on European Gas

• “Cnooc Ltd. last month agreed to spend $2.1 billion for bankrupt Canadian oil-sands developer OPTI Canada Inc. In June, PetroChina Co. and Canada's Encana Corp. called off a $5.5 billion partnership to develop a large tract of natural gas when they couldn't agree on terms.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Closes In on European Gas

• “MEADOWBANK GOLD MINE, Nunavut—Canadian officials are stepping up lobbying on behalf of a controversial pipeline extension that could boost export capacity from Alberta's oil-sands region to the U.S., amid a looming State Department decision over the project.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Canada Steps Up Lobbying for Keystone Ahead of Deadline

• “Do Environmental Protection Agency environmentalists imagine their endless U.S. obstruction can stop Canada's exploitation of its own enormous oil-sands resources?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pipeline Nix Highlights Energy Folly

• “Environmentalists and some politicians on both sides of the border have criticized the oil-sands industry on a number of fronts, including the use of extraction techniques more akin to strip mining than conventional drilling and the industry's relatively high carbon footprint.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Canada Readies New Plan for Monitoring Oil Sands

• “The death of more than 1,600 ducks in 2008 in an oil-sands mining waste pond increased attention on the industry.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Canada Readies New Plan for Monitoring Oil Sands

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