Courses are being charted for supertankers to fetch Alberta oil for Asia from a new British Columbia terminal planned for Kitimat.
Engineers are designing tunnels to put a new pipeline beneath the mountains between Edmonton and the Pacific Ocean
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BISMARCK — The thought of digging a trench to send 590,000 barrels a day of 100-degree crude oil coursing through a pipe buried in eastern North Dakota’s subsoil has some in this state worried about environmental damage. But the lands where the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline contents will originate are already more ravaged than the amount of potential harm to cropland, waterways and trees between Walhalla and Cogswell, N.D.
Some opponents of the Keystone route through North Dakota cite the controversial extraction process in northern Alberta as a reason to discourage bringing the 30-inch line through on its way to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma.
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Canada’s Cline Mining Corp. wants to develop an open-pit mine requiring roads, rock dumps, a coal washing plant, a power-line corridor, a mine camp and fuel storage.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and others have expressed concern the mine would pollute water in the Flathead River system, which spans the British Columbia-Montana border. The Flathead’s North Fork forms the western boundary of Glacier Park, and Flathead water flows into Montana’s sprawling Flathead Lake. Critics of the mine say it threatens wildlife habitat, as well.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) Opponents of a proposed coal-fired power plant in Montana want a state panel to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from the project to curb Global Warming.
The case could make Montana the first state in the country to force new coal plants to employ technologies that could reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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I think what it’s basically saying is that they made a decision which is against the will of millions of people in California. It’s a decision that is against the will of 16 other states. When I look at that, the Environmental Protection Agency is the Environmental Destruction Agency. The name says it protects the environment. How can that protect the environment when you don’t want to let anyone really move forward with this agenda?
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December 19, 2007
CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. wants Alberta’s electricity grid connected to the western United States, allowing producers to export electricity from the power plants they want to build in Alberta.
Alberta needs substantial new generating capacity as companies pursue projects such as new oil sands projects that consume large amounts of electricity.
Calgary-based TransCanada has positioned itself to provide some of that capacity through new natural gas and clean coal power plants, while it is also behind efforts to build the province’s first nuclear plant.
Alberta’s lack of transmission links, however, means companies can’t send any excess production from new power plants to other markets. Building new plants without links to the United States would lead to an oversupplied provincial market, plummeting prices and little incentive for companies to invest in new generating capacity, TransCanada chief executive officer Hal Kvisle said yesterday.
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Just over a year ago, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer announced a deal that had the potential to change the face of America’s energy industry. Calling it “a great day for Montana,” Schweitzer said on October 2, 2006 that Bull Mountain Land Company had entered into an “initial agreement” with DKRW Advanced Fuels, a coal technology company based in Houston, to construct a coal-to-liquid plant at Bull Mountain’s mine outside Roundup, north of Billings in central Montana.
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Shell has quietly shed most of its solar power, while BP is buying into Alberta’s dirty
Shell, the oil company that recently trumpeted its commitment to a low carbon future by signing a pre-Bali conference communique, has quietly sold off most of its solar business.
The move, taken with rival BP’s decision last week to invest in the world’s dirtiest oil production in Canada’s tar sands, indicates that Big Oil might be giving up its flirtation with renewables and going back to its roots.
Shell and BP are among the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in the world, but both have been keen to paint themselves green through a series of clean fuel initiatives.
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BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move “Beyond Petroleum” by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its “green sheen” by investing nearly £1.5bn to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the “biggest global warming crime” in history.
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That job was nothing next to the Herculian task he took on last year: representing Alberta farmers opposing plans to build a 500-kilovolt transmission line between Edmonton and Calgary.
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