Alberta can be a global leader in the export of low carbon hydrogen to meet the growing global demand, says the chief executive of ATCO Ltd., which is working on its own hydrogen pilot project in Alberta.
October 7, 2020, 12 AM MDT
As Ottawa prepares to ban single use plastics, the Alberta government as part of its natural gas strategy wants to extract the full value of plastics, enabling them to be reused by the petrochemical industry in a “circular economy.”
October 7, 2020, 12 AM MDT
For Alicia Dubois, the decision by her Indigenous father to move his family from a small town in Ontario to Fort McMurray to take a job at Syncrude Canada Ltd. was to result in a very different future for his daughter.
October 6, 2020, 9:38 AM MDT
Canada's burgeoning cleantech sector needs to recognize and enrich companies whose innovations are “cleaning and greening” existing fossil fuel industrial processes in real time.
October 5, 2020, 7:37 AM MDT
Kathairos Solutions Inc. and Velvet Energy Ltd. are using a liquid nitrogen-based system developed to eliminate fugitive methane emissions from routine site venting, producing zero-emission result in support of exceeding current regulatory objectives.
October 5, 2020, 12 AM MDT
In recent months, the Daily Oil Bulletin has been increasing its volume of technology and alternative/renewable energy content.
October 1, 2020, 3:39 PM MDT
In partnership with its service providers, Obsidian Energy Ltd. has received Alberta Site Rehabilitation Program (ASRP) grants to date totaling $17 million and an additional $4 million in allocation eligibility as an area based closure (ABC) participant.
October 1, 2020, 8:42 AM MDT
A new report released today by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) indicates how safe the pipeline industry really is and, for the past five years, people and governments have realized they are the safest way to move needed energy, Chris Bloomer, CEPA chief executive officer, said in an interview.
September 30, 2020, 11:22 AM MDT
Members of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) upped their game in 2019, reporting a total of only nine incidents, including one significant natural gas leak and no significant liquids spills, on pipeline rights-of-way.
September 30, 2020, 7 AM MDT
The halcyon days for Alberta oil and gas are over, the oilsands boom is dead, and it’s time for the provincial government to accept this new reality — rather than burying its head in the sand and/or fruitlessly fighting it — and adjust to make the best of an otherwise bad situation.
September 29, 2020, 8:35 AM MDT
TC Energy Corporation and Natural Law Energy (NLE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for NLE to pursue an equity interest in the Keystone XL project and other potential related midstream and power projects.
September 29, 2020, 2:54 PM MDT
Calgary-based Compass Energy Systems and Northbase Finance have partnered with Crusoe Energy Systems to build and finance approximately US$20 million of power generation systems for the expansion of Crusoe's proprietary Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology.
September 29, 2020, 11:27 AM MDT
When it comes to energy and climate, the highly anticipated Speech from the Throne was a bit of a letdown.
September 25, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The federal government has promised to immediately bring forward a plan to exceed Canada’s 2030 climate goal set by the previous Conservative government and to legislate a goal of net zero emissions by 2050 as part of its effort to “build back better” with long-term competitiveness and clean growth.
September 24, 2020, 12 AM MDT
Good news for natural gas producers: Canadians overwhelmingly seem to agree with the notion that exporting natural gas to countries that are using more polluting forms of energy is one of the most important things Canada can do to address climate change, according to the results of a Positive Energy survey.
September 24, 2020, 11:01 AM MDT
September 24, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The Alberta government plans to spend up to $750 million from the industry-supported Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund on a series of programs, including carbon capture, storage and utilization.
September 23, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Canada’s status as the only country on the seismically active Ring of Fire circling the Pacific Ocean without a dedicated geothermal power project could be about to end with a project more than a thousand kilometres from the coast — in the southern prairie of Saskatchewan.
September 22, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The public doesn’t trust the oilsands to tell a credible and consistent story about its performance and now is the time to start rebuilding trust, and examining how other resource sectors have faced and overcome similar challenges, says a new report from the Canada West Foundation.
September 22, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Any performance management program to deal with a lack of public trust in the oilsands may take some time to develop, a new report from the Canada West Foundation says.
September 22, 2020, 8:18 AM MDT
Exploitation of geothermal heat goes back millennia, while harnessing of geothermal power goes back over a century. Yet despite its immense geothermal resource potential, Canada has sat on the sidelines of geothermal heat and power development.
September 21, 2020, 12 AM MDT
British Columbia has allocated the first $50 million under its Dormant Sites Reclamation Program, supporting upwards of 1,200 local jobs at 79 oilfield service companies within the province, and reclaiming 1,880 wells
September 21, 2020, 12 AM MDT
September 21, 2020, 8:28 AM MDT
The technology that is being taken to the commercial stage by Calgary-based Carbonova Corp. may sound almost too good to be true, but companies in the concrete-production, auto parts, sports equipment and other sectors that are working with the firm to use the carbon dioxide-sourced material it produces are believers.
September 17, 2020, 7:16 AM MDT
The bureaucracy that exists to prove out geothermal resources “without question” has held back development for Valemount, says its mayor, which is why the B.C. village that sits where the Rocky Mountain Trench intersects a fault is asking fellow communities in the province to support a simplified process that would be far less expensive.
September 16, 2020, 7:50 AM MDT
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