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Feds keep lid on Atomic Energy Canada sale report - 0 views

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    The federal government said late Monday it had received a report it commissioned on the best way to break up and sell Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. - but refused to release the report's recommendations, citing "commercial confidentiality considerations." Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt announced last spring that the government was prepared to break up AECL, a Crown corporation, into two parts. One part would include the business responsible for selling and building CANDU reactors, the large powerful machines that provide electricity at plants in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. The government signalled its intention to a seek a private sector partner to buy all or part of the CANDU business.
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    The federal government said late Monday it had received a report it commissioned on the best way to break up and sell Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. - but refused to release the report's recommendations, citing "commercial confidentiality considerations." Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt announced last spring that the government was prepared to break up AECL, a Crown corporation, into two parts. One part would include the business responsible for selling and building CANDU reactors, the large powerful machines that provide electricity at plants in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. The government signalled its intention to a seek a private sector partner to buy all or part of the CANDU business.
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DOE - Fact Sheet: U.S.-Canada Partnership Key to North American Energy Security - 0 views

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    # The United States purchases more oil, natural gas, uranium and electricity from Canada than any other country. # Canada's proven oil reserves total 179 billion barrels, of which 173 billion barrels are in oil sands reserves, making Canada second only to Saudi Arabia in global oil reserves. # 99% of Canada's crude oil exports are to U.S. markets. # Energy flows in both directions between the United States and Canada. Our pipeline and transmission systems are highly integrated and our cross-border trade operates nearly seamlessly.
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The Canadian Press: Report: Canada needs new energy strategy to deal with oilsands conc... - 0 views

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    Canada needs to devise a new national energy strategy, particularly to help fend off concerns in the United States about the environmental impact of Alberta's oilsands industry, says a report by the Canadian International Council. The Toronto-based think-tank, founded by Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM), says Canada has an opportunity to leverage the current economic downturn to promote its energy interests.
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U.S. should weigh impact of Canada oil sands: report | Canada | Reuters - 0 views

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    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - U.S. regulators should weigh the environmental impact of oil sands extraction in Canada before granting permits for pipelines that will carry the rising flood of Canadian crude to refineries in the United States, a green group said on Wednesday. The recommendation was one of several in a report by the Washington-based Environmental Integrity Project on massive expansions and retoolings of U.S. refineries aimed at running more oil derived from the oil sands of northern Alberta.
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AFP: Canada suspends new nuclear reactor construction - 0 views

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    Ontario, Canada's economic hub, announced Monday the suspension of its plan to build two new nuclear reactors, citing concerns about vendor Atomic Energy Canada Limited's viability, and pricing. The provincial government said AECL's bid to build the two new nuclear power plants at its Darlington station, 43 miles (70 kilometers) east of Toronto, by 2018 was the only one to meet its terms and objectives. The project was to be the first step in the modernization of Ontario's aging nuclear fleet. France's Areva and Westinghouse Electric Company, a subsidiary of Japan's Toshiba, had also bid on the project in February.
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Alberta's mission: convert oil sands skeptics - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the Alberta government parked a huge dump truck on the National Mall in Washington, announcing to U.S. lawmakers Canada was about to become the next big thing in global energy. It was an ostentatious display -- the yellow behemoth used in oilsands extraction stood five metres tall, with four-metre-high tires -- that helped put Alberta's oilsands on the map for a Congress deeply worried after 9/11 about the security of the U.S. energy supply.
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Peak Energy: The Canadian Oil Boom - 0 views

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    Next month's edition of National Geographic has an article on the tar sands of Canada - The Canadian Oil Boom. How long the boom lasts if the current downturn continues is questionable of course. In the same issue is an article on Energy Conservation. In Boucher's memory, though, the change begins that day in 1963, on the long trail his grandfather used to set his traps, near a place called Mildred Lake. Generations of his ancestors had worked that trapline. "These trails had been here thousands of years," Boucher said one day last summer, sitting in his spacious and tasteful corner office in Fort McKay. His golf putter stood in one corner; Mozart played softly on the stereo. "And that day, all of a sudden, we came upon this clearing. A huge clearing. There had been no notice. In the 1970s they went in and tore down my grandfather's cabin-with no notice or discussion." That was Boucher's first encounter with the oil sands industry. It's an industry that has utterly transformed this part of northeastern Alberta in just the past few years, with astonishing speed. Boucher is surrounded by it now and immersed in it himself.
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Canada's Oil Reserves 2nd Only To Saudi Arabia - 0 views

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    The U.S. government said Thursday Canada holds the world's second-largest oil reserves, taking into account Alberta oil sands previously considered too expensive to develop.
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Top World Oil Producers, Exporters, Consumers, and Importers, 2006 - Infoplease.com - 0 views

  • 1 Total oil production  Exporters2 Net oilexports  Consumers3 Total oilconsumption  Importers4 Net oilimports  1. Saudi Arabia 10.72  1. Saudi Arabia 8.65  1. United States 20.59  1. United States 12.22  2. Russia 9.67  2. Russia 6.57  2. China 7.27  2. Japan 5.10  3. United States 8.37  3. Norway 2.54  3. Japan 5.22  3. China 3.44  4. Iran 4.12  4. Iran 2.52  4. Russia 3.10  4. Germany 2.48  5. Mexico 3.71  5. United Arab Emirates 2.52  5. Germany 2.63  5. South Korea 2.15  6. China 3.84  6. Venezuela 2.20  6. India 2.53  6. France 1.89  7. Canada 3.23  7. Kuwait 2.15  7. Canada 2.22  7. India 1.69  8. United Arab Emirates 2.94  8. Nigeria 2.15  8. Brazil 2.12  8. Italy 1.56  9. Venezuela 2.81  9. Algeria 1.85  9. South Korea 2.12  9. Spain 1.56 10. Norway 2.79 10. Mexico 1.68 10. Saudi Arabia 2.07 10. Taiwan 0.94 11. Kuwait 2.67 11. Libya 1.52 11. Mexico 2.03     12. Nigeria 2.44 12. Iraq 1.43  12. France  1.97     13. Brazil 2.16 13. Angola 1.36  13. United Kingdom  1.82     14. Iraq 2.01 14. Kazakhstan 1.11  14. Italy  1.71     NOTE: OPEC members in italics.
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    This is an important reference for anyone wanting to look at the number that are driving the current energy crisis.
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Current Rig Count and Inflation Adjusted Price Of Oil - 0 views

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    Current worldwide rig count and U.S. Rig count, Middle East, Canada. Number of active drilling rigs. Inflation adjusted price of crude oil
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The real choice in next week's election - 0 views

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    For the past three elections, Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have taken the same approach to the issue of climate change. Voters are told they must choose between protecting the environment and building the economy. Although we'd all like to protect the environment, in turbulent times, we tend to think of our families and our bank accounts first.
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High stakes in Canada's vast oil-sands fields: ENN - 0 views

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    The relentless search for oil has led explorers to the boreal forest of northeastern Alberta, among the jack pines and black spruce trees an hour's drive from the boom town of Fort McMurray. Kelly Hansen, operations manager at ConocoPhillips's $1 billion Surmont oil-sands plant, holds up the prize: a beaker of sticky black "synbit,"� a 50-50 blend of bitumen (a viscous, tarlike petroleum) and synthetic oil.
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POLITICS-US: Canada's Tar Sands Lobbyists Focus on Democrats - 0 views

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    As the U.S. election campaign kicks into overdrive, Canadian politicians and oil executives are stepping up lobbying efforts to make sure whoever controls the White House keeps purchasing notoriously dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands. Executives from Nexen energy, which has major investments in northern Alberta's heavy oil industry, and Tony Clement, chair of a Canadian cabinet committee on energy security, met with Democratic candidate Barack Obama's top energy advisor Jason Grumet late last week to cement the "energy partnership" during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
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Oil sands pose investment and climate risk, says WWF - 0 views

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    Canada's oil sands pose a significant investment risk as their development may be hampered by a government attempt to curtail the industry's rising carbon dioxide emissions, a report published Tuesday said.
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telegraphjournal.com - Uranium, radon pose known risk to health - 0 views

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    A geologist with the New Brunswick Mines Branch in Bathurst has taken exception to media articles concerning unsafe levels of radon and uranium in the Harvey area ("Radon dangers aren't that dire," Telegraph-Journal, May 26). He dismisses any suggestion that well water potentially contaminated with radon or uranium poses a health threat, yet provides no evidence to support his assertion. He also suggests that mortality rates in the Harvey area aren't any different that any other place in the province, but doesn't provide any data to support this claim.
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dailygleaner.com - Letters | Uranium drilling a concern for many - 0 views

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    I understand Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault to say health risks would occur after exposure of "500 hours," a mere 21 days, of being within five feet of a drill sample with just one per cent of uranium.
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Canada's Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth - 0 views

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    Because of their sheer scale, all Canadians are affected by the Tar Sands, no matter where they live. If you live downstream, your water is being polluted and your fish and wildlife may be dangerous to eat. If you live in Saskatchewan you are a victim of acid rain. If you live in BC, "supertankers" may soon be plying your shoreline carrying Tar Sands oil to Asia. If you live in Ontario, you are exposed to harmful emissions from the refining of Tar Sands Oil. And the impacts do not stop at Canada's border - US refineries are re-tooling to handle the dirty oil from Alberta.
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Groups fight TVA plan to discharge water from Kingston plant into Clinch River | tennes... - 0 views

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    Three environmental groups want the state to throw out a permit it just issued that would allow TVA to dump water tainted with mercury, selenium, arsenic, and other chemicals from the Kingston coal-fired power plant into the Clinch River. The Clinch, which lies below the power plant, has already received ash moving down the Emory River from the massive ash spill last December. Earthjustice, Environmental Integrity Project, and the Sierra Club on Thursday filed an appeal of a water discharge permit that the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation issued four weeks ago. They say letting TVA pipe one million gallons of wastewater a day from a pond with gypsum into the river isn't wise. The material will be a byproduct of the plant's new air pollution system.
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    Three environmental groups want the state to throw out a permit it just issued that would allow TVA to dump water tainted with mercury, selenium, arsenic, and other chemicals from the Kingston coal-fired power plant into the Clinch River. The Clinch, which lies below the power plant, has already received ash moving down the Emory River from the massive ash spill last December. Earthjustice, Environmental Integrity Project, and the Sierra Club on Thursday filed an appeal of a water discharge permit that the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation issued four weeks ago. They say letting TVA pipe one million gallons of wastewater a day from a pond with gypsum into the river isn't wise. The material will be a byproduct of the plant's new air pollution system.
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