Taking aim
Flush with cash from American sympathizers, Green Grinches are focusing on plugging oilsands pipelines and ending bitumen's growth
A couple of years ago, environmental activists—and more particularly those high-rhetoric mouthpieces of the movement we have labelled Green Grinches—attacked Canada's environmental record on the most visible front possible: northern Alberta's vast oilsands developments.
Tracking the cash
A Vancouver blogger has uncovered a U.S. money trail that leads straight to Canadian green groups, and unleashed a firestorm of debate as hearings open into a key oilsands pipeline
Blasting off to a fresh new start on the eve of the environmental review process for the Northern Gateway pipeline, Joe Oliver, Canada's minister for natural resources, began 2012 by issuing an unprecedented open letter to slam environmentalists for using foreign funding to undermine national economic interests.
A deeper shade of green
Long involved in wind energy, Enbridge is spreading its wings to take in solar and geothermal technologies
Calgary-based pipeline and power giant Enbridge Inc. has already invested heavily in such renewable electricity areas as wind and solar; now it has turned its attention to geothermal energy projects in British Columbia and elsewhere in North America.
Another bitumen bonanza
Bitumen off-gases hold the key to a sustainable future for Alberta’s petrochemical industry
Alberta could double the size of its petrochemical industry by adopting a multi-pronged strategy to increase the supply of ethane within the province, says a former NOVA Chemicals Corporation executive who now chairs a provincial government task force dealing with the sector.
To fight another day
Enform’s H2S Alive is quickly gaining a reputation as the one industry course you can’t live without
A seismic worker on a geophysical survey steers his rig up an embankment and bogs down in the mud. He backs up and moves further down the road, closer to a gas well facility, and takes another run at the embankment. He bogs again and, as he's backing up, ruptures a section of piping. When he jumps out of the rig to see what he hit, he is overcome by hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas.
What’s in a name?
Thorns by many other names, today’s Green Grinches leave us a lot to talk about
Environmental activists. Green guerillas. Eco-terrorists. Whatever name you choose to apply to them, representatives of environmentally conscious non-government organizations, or NGOs, have long been the thorn in the side of the global oil and gas industry.
Calming the waters
As the number of horizontal multistage fracturing projects grows exponentially, the industry meets public concern with new fluid handling
The newest technological revolution in the oil and gas industry is horizontal multi-fraccing. Directly or indirectly, the technique has been responsible for US$4 gas, a century-long supply for U.S. consumers, reduced production costs in the oilsands, promises of a clean fuel for everything from electricity generation to powering nationwide truck fleets-the list goes on.
