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Are driverless vehicles just around the corner for the oil sands?

June 25, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

It seems like something out of the future – the distant future. But the idea of driverless trucks on the move in northern Alberta may not be that far fetched. Pete Arrigoni with Kenworth Trucks who was part of a panel discussion at the Oil & Gas Awards Industry Summit in Calgary says while such […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Event Coverage, Innovation Tagged With: autonomous, driverless trucks, energy, Kenworth Trucks, oil industry, oil sands, Peter Arrigoni

Challenging times facing leaders in the oil industry

June 25, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Leaders in the oil industry certainly have their plates full these days.  Not only are they dealing with economic challenges of low oil prices, there are a number of other issues facing the industry. Near the top of that list is reputation.  The industry is in a battle for its life against eco-groups who are […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Event Coverage, News Tagged With: Alberta, Blackbird Energy, Dr Bruce McGee, E-T Energy, energy, Garth Braun, Katch Kan, oil industry, oil sands, Pat Carlson, Quinn Holtby, Seven Generations Energy

Global Petroleum Show almost here

June 7, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Alberta’s new Energy Minister Marg McCuaig Boyd will be speaking on behalf of the New Democrat government at this years Global Petroleum Show in Calgary.  It will be the first time in a long time that the province is represented by a party other than the Conservatives who were in power from 1971 until this […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, energy, global petroleum show, heavy oil, Marg McCuaig Boyd, New Democrat, oil, oil industry

Oil industry leader says doing nothing on climate change is not an option

May 27, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

An energy industry heavyweight told a Calgary forum on climate change a healthy environment is key to a health economy–and vice versa. Suncor President and CEO Steve Williams says even though we don’t have all the answers, the time for action is now, doing nothing is not an option.” Other comments from the conference put […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment, News Tagged With: Amin Asadollahi, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, Cenovus, Chris Ragan, Climate Change, geothermal, Judy Fairburn, oil industry, Oilsands Program Director, Pembina Institute, President and CEO Steve Williams, solar, Suncor, wind

Will climate change target be met this time by Canada?

May 26, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Canada has an enviable record of setting ambitious climate change targets, having  done so four times since signing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. Its record at meeting them is far less praiseworthy – three failures so far. But the fourth target, announced by the federal government on May 15, may […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment, International, News Tagged With: Canada, Carbon49, Climate Change, CMC Research Institutes, energy, EnviroEconomics, Greenpeace Canada, oil and gas, oil industry, United Nations Framework Convention, United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism

Comment: Near perfect record not good enough for some

May 25, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Just like commercial airlines don’t make headlines for the thousands of flights that reach their destination safely each day, you won’t see much media coverage of the stellar safety rate achieved in all segments of North America’s oil and natural gas industry. But it’s a reality with direct bearing on public policy. The continents liquid […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Editorial, Environment, International, Safety Tagged With: American Petroleum Institute, crude by rail, energy, Environment, Jack Gerard, oil, oil industry, pipeline, Safety, train

Oil spill cleanup made easier

April 15, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

In Ohio, scientists are experimenting with a mesh that could clean up oil spills and save a lot of money in the process. Research out of Ohio State University’s nano lab has developed a type of steel mesh which traps oil, while letting water flow through it. The high-tech mesh is coated in a nearly […]

Filed Under: Environment, Innovation, International, News Tagged With: clean up, energy, nano technology, oil industry, oil spill, steel mesh

Have some enviro groups gone too far comparing fracking to rape?

April 10, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Environmental activist Sharon Wilson of Earthworks seems to have started a new rallying call against the oil and gas industry by claiming that a recently passed bill in the Texas state legislature was allowing “Texas fracking rape.” “Fracking victims I have worked with describe it as a rape,” Wilson wrote in a blog post protesting […]

Filed Under: Environment, International, News Tagged With: Earthworks, fracking, oil industry, rape, Sharon Wilson

Spill clean up a messy business

April 10, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Marine oil spills can be extremely difficult to deal with. In the sea of Cardiff, Wales engineers from a European research project are testing a new prototype that cleans oil spills quickly, efficiently and more cheaply than existing methods. “What we’ve developed is a net which can float on the surface of the water, without […]

Filed Under: Environment, Innovation, International, News Tagged With: Innovation, oil industry, oil spill, OPEC, Technology

Is there a link between fracking and earthquakes?

April 9, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes.  The count went from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010. Those numbers grew alongside a boom in the state’s natural gas drilling industry. There is now a heap of peer-reviewed research finding that […]

Filed Under: Environment, International Tagged With: Alberta Energy, BP Deepwater Horizon, drinking water, earthquakes, fracking, ground water, oil, oil industry, oklahoma

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