Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi from the United Arab Emirates spent five days in Alberta. While here he saw a hydroponics operation in Strathcona County, his first hockey game and was the Spruce Grove and District Chamber of Commerce’s guest speaker at a luncheon. Brenda Johnson, president and CEO of the Chamber told […]
Alberta oil sands not down for the count
“These are challenging times. I can’t say it any other way”. This is one of the last comments Alberta Premier Jim Prentice made at a news conference following his speech at the World Heavy Oil Congress. Prentice is counting on oil to hit the $60/barrel mark by next year. He’s basing his next budget on […]
Looking for options
Alberta is in discussions with Alaska about shipping oil sands crude through the U.S. state to the Pacific as approval for the southbound Keystone XL pipeline languishes in Washington. The Alaska plan would involve constructing a pipeline along the Mackenzie River valley and then west to existing ports on the U.S. coast, Alberta Premier Jim […]
Quest to sequester, a Shell Canada first
To paraphrase a famous observation, “Everybody talks about climate change, but nobody does much about it.” Indeed, media reports and scientific publications may be thick with discussion of this extraordinary environmental phenomenon but practical proposals for directly dealing with it are thin on the ground while full-scale initiatives are even more scarce. It is worth […]