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The Council of Canadians is looking to help Stephen Harper with Ottawa's budget deficit. It's surprising - someone should check to see if pigs can actually fly - given the long-standing animosity between the left-wing citizens' group and Harpers' right-wing Conservative government, but it is tough to...
Chevron Corp. will become the first major oil company to partner with YPF SA to develop shale oil and a final deal is expected in July, YPF said. Miguel Galuccio, chief executive officer of YPF, and Ali Moshiri, Chevron’s head of Latin America, Middle East and Africa , visited...
Agency implements rule requiring companies to disclose information regarding the use of certain industrial chemical substances commonly used in natural gas and oil well drilling. On May 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Direct Final Rule identifying 15 chemical...
New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health is voicing concerns about the government’s plan for shale gas development in the province. On Thursday, the government released a shale gas blueprint highlighting six main objectives, but Dr. Eilish Cleary says health isn’t one of them.
The Obama administration has signalled support for more plants to export liquefied natural gas, as the US embraces its surging energy production as a key new element of its national security policy. Barack Obama said at the weekend the US was likely to be a net gas exporter by 2020, the...
Part of what makes debates about energy confusing to many is that the language of resource depletion allows one to make strong and accurate claims to justify widely divergent positions. Of course, we are running out of fossil fuels; they take millions of years to replace. Yes, we will never...
SWN Resources will be operating again in New Brunswick this summer and will be testing to see if the company has a viable chance of developing a shale gas industry in the province. The company was forced to abandon its seismic testing plans last summer because of delays in obtaining the necessary...
Mexico plans to expand shale gas exploration this year, but it could run into a shortage of water, which is essential to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the method used to capture natural gas from shale rocks. “In Mexico there isn’t enough water. Where are they going to get it to extract...
Discoveries of shale gas could lead to a surge in US demand for gas-powered vehicles, according to Bosch, the world’s biggest car parts supplier. Until now the automotive industry has focused primarily on the gradual transition from petrol or diesel-fuelled cars to hybrid and fully...
China has made no secret of its ambition to grab a piece of the shale gas boom that has gripped North America. Several of the country’s large energy groups have taken stakes in shale gas companies, including Sinopec, which earlier this year announced it would pay $1bn to buy a 50 per...