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What’s going on with Regina refinery?

July 3, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

An investigation by CBC has revealed the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S or sour gas) released by the Co-op Refinery Complex is significantly higher than any other refinery in the country. According to Environment Canada while some VOCs are are not a concern, others are toxic and can cause cancer […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment, News Tagged With: Co-op Refinery Complex, Edmonton, energy, H2S, hydrogen sulphide, pollution, refinery, regina, sour gas, Suncor Refinery, VOCs, volatile organic compounds

Comment: Oil sands phase-out may be Canada’s greatest contribution to the world

September 10, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The occasion of writing this column prompted reflection on my engineering career, in particular three critical junctures. The first was in 1970, when my teacher pointed to Northern Alberta on a map at the front of our classroom, declaring that the oil embedded in the soil there would be Canada’s most important contribution to the […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, carbon pricing, Climate Change, crude oil, Environment, geoscientists, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Northern Alberta, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, refinery, regulation, upgrader

Promoters of proposed Sarnia refinery launching study

September 9, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Backers of a push to see a new $10-billion refinery built in Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario to upgrade oil sands bitumen gathered in late August to launch a pre-feasibility study. Clem Bowman, a former head of Imperial Oil’s research department in Sarnia who went on to play an important role in developing Alberta’s oil sands, returned to […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, News Tagged With: Alberta, bitumen, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Clem Bowman, oil sands, Ontario, Ottawa, refinery, Sarnia-Lambton, upgrade

Comment: Canadian crude is an attractive alternative to imported oil

August 29, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world, but we import large volumes of oil from foreign sources into Eastern Canada, including Quebec, every day. Oil refineries in Quebec and Atlantic Canada import more than 600,000 barrels per day from foreign sources. But with Canadian oil production growing, using Canadian crude oil in Quebec, […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadians, crude oil, Environment, Greg Stringham, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, Philippe Reicher, pipeline, Quebec, refinery, Safety

Comment: Train riskier than pipeline for oil

August 18, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

People who are adamantly protesting the Northern Gateway pipeline’s tentative approval seem to forget one very important thing. Both the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific Railways are ready to use “unit trains,” similar to the coal trains that rumble along to the Roberts Bank super port, but instead of coal, the trains will be […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, CGLAP, Collaborative Group of Landowners Affected by Pipelines, crude oil, Kinder Morgan, Northern gateway, Northern Gateway pipeline, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, oil spill, pipeline, refinery

Plan to ship from the oil sands to the east coast runs into a snag

July 22, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Oil-sands opponents rallied in Bretton Woods, N.H., where New England governors held their annual meeting with eastern Canadian premiers. On the table – energy trade and innovation. “We are calling on Northeast leaders to oppose projects that would bring more tar sands oil into the region, and to implement a regional clean fuel standard along […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, crude oil, Enbridge, Energy East, Environment, Keystone XL, Keystone XL pipeline, Kinder Morgan, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, refinery, U.S.

Comment: Make Prince Rupert the terminus

July 20, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling should give pause to Enbridge to consider that Port of Prince Rupert as a viable alternative of its plan to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to Kitimat, B.C. Certainly the ruling strengthens the hand of the many small native bands that fish the tributaries of […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, crude oil, Enbridge, energy, Environment, environmental, First Nations, gas, Harper Government, Northern gateway, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, refinery, Safety, spill, Supreme Court, treaty rights

Northern gateway pipeline approval approved in Alberta’s heartland

July 14, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

While environmental groups and First Nations criticized the Harper government for approving the Northern gateway pipeline, the provinces industrial heartland has a different take. Not surprisingly it wants the pipeline to satisfy the 209 conditions and get the go ahead to start building. The Executive Director of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association (AIHA), Neil Shelly, told […]

Filed Under: Alberta, News Tagged With: AIHA, Alberta, Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association, crude oil, Enbridge, Energy East, First Nations, Harper Government, Keystone XL, MLA Jacquie Fenske, Neil Shelly, Northern gateway, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, ort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, pipeline, refinery

Iraq Could Be the Country That Gets Keystone Approved

July 14, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The fact that Iraq is crumbling and could be on the verge of civil war might be what it takes to prompt the US government to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. With record oil production in the United States likely to soften any domestic blow volatility on the world scene will have, America will still […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, crude oil, Environment, Harper Government, Iraq, Keystone XL, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, refinery, Safety, TransCanada, Washington

Is pipeline company prepared to haze whales?

July 13, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The pipeline situation in Canada has been contentious for a while. But now, it’s getting positively weird. In the latest twist, the energy giant Kinder Morgan is proposing a novel wildlife protection scheme. If a pipeline expansion that boosts oil exports out of Vancouver leads to a massive new spill, Kinder Morgan says it knows […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: British Columbia, crude oil, damage, Environment, environmental, hazing, Kinder Morgan, Northern gateway, oil, oil companies, oil sands, pipeline, refinery, Safety, whales

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