environment

Fort McKay First Nation and Suncor Energy are partnering to explore potential oil sands projects on the First Nation. On March 7th, the energy giant and the First Nation inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a potential oil sands project located within the reserve lands of the Fort McKay First Nation. The […]

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is suing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). During a town hall meeting in Fort Chipewyan on Tuesday, Chief Allan Adam handed a notice of lawsuit to the CEO of AER, Laurie Pushor. The First Nation alleges the Energy Regulator engaged in “negligence, nuisance, breach of the duty to consult, breach […]

A new study published in the Academic Journal “Science” says air quality emissions from the oil sands are being highly underestimated by industry. The paper, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, reports aircraft measurements of emissions from the Alberta oilsands are up to 6,300 per cent […]

Pathways Alliance (Pathways) is continuing to move forward with its proposed Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project. The company, made up of Canada’s six largest oil sands producers, says they are making strides on multiple simultaneous projects. They hope to eventually capture and sequester 22 million tonnes of CO2 emissions from the oil sands every […]

Deloitte Canada is out with its report into the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) handling of recent incidents at Kearl Lake. The assessment states that AER responded properly and followed its procedures during the investigation into two environmental discharges at Imperial Oil’s Kearl Lake site. A claim disputed by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN). “Deloitte’s […]

The Government of Alberta is providing funding for a multi-year study into small modular nuclear reactors. The study will explore how the reactors could be used in oil sand operations and what information might be needed to explore regulatory approval in the future. $7 million from the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Fund is going […]