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CALGARY, - The National Energy Board has approved the
Enbridge Pipelines Inc. application to construct and operate the Canadian
portion of the Alberta Clipper Expansion Project (Alberta Clipper).
The Alberta Clipper project is a new 1,607 kilometre (km) oil pipeline
from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. The Canadian portion of the
CALGARY -- Pipeline companies are set to build the projects needed to transport higher levels of crude production from Alberta's oil sands, resolving the question of how energy firms will bring their future output to market.
The detective knows what water you've been drinking
Researchers say isotopes found in hair reveal subtle regional differences based on the tap water people consume
A sample of someone's hair can reveal where they have been living, says a team of U.S. researchers who are hoping their new technique will help police solve crimes.
Canada is crisscrossed by innumerable rivers, some of which flow into three oceans.
Yet Canada's fresh water isn't as abundant as you may think. And it's facing serious challenges and the looming menace of climate change, which is expected to exacerbate Canada's water problems and leave more of the world thirsting after our precious liquid resource.
There are five key driving forces impacting agriculture and small farmers and ranchers are in a position to take advantage of them, an official with the Colorado Department of Agriculture said Thursday. Tom Lipetsky, director of the markets division of the department, was the keynote speaker at the 2008 Colorado Agriculture Big & Small Conference and Trade Show.
The terms of the immigration debate, as we've explored, have been largely set by two competing factions of the right: the eliminationism-prone nativist bloc, and the status-quo-oriented corporate conservatives, with the former's ugly xenophobia taking most of the center stage, especially in the mainstream media.
Tim Stobbs is obsessing over water. When the 29-year-old engineer purchased his first home in Regina last summer, he sought ways to shave his monthly costs. After tackling his electrical, heating and cable expenses, he turned to his water bill. Mr. Stobbs replaced the old 13-litre flush toilets in his house with six-litre models and installed outdoor drums to collect rainwater for his yard.
Royal Dutch Shell,
Europe's largest oil company, is asking US regulators to ease rules to allow the company to book oil and gas reserves from unconventional sources such as its Canadian tar sands operations.
Once every five years, the massive -- and growing -- farm bill lumbers its way through Congress until it is passed into law, when it doles out funding for everything from barley subsidies to wetlands conservation.
As a private investigator, Michael Wilton used to dig into people's lives.
Now, he helps BP Canada dig into Alberta's oilsands.
Wilton left Ontario five years ago searching for a bigger paycheque and a new career direction.
He found both.
Congressional negotiations over multibillion-dollar farm legislation are closing in on a March deadline as some members of Congress are tempering expectations back home.
Fourteen years after Canada, the U.S. and Mexico hailed the formation of the world's largest trading bloc, the North American Free Trade Agreement has come back to bite Hillary Clinton.
My response (Examiner, Jan. 24) to a "Sound Off" by John Etsches of the preceding weekend has brought home to me the fact that Canadians, many of them at any rate, are oblivious to the realities of a world in which we find ourselves. Here are a few of those realities:
Barack Obama accused Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday of trying to walk away from a long record of support for NAFTA, the free trade agreement that he said has cost 50,000 jobs in Ohio, site of next week's primary.
At the same time, he said attempts to repeal the trade deal "would probably result in more job losses than job gains in the United States."
Barack Obama accused Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday of trying to walk away from a long record of support for NAFTA, the free trade agreement that he said has cost 50,000 jobs in Ohio, site of next week's primary.
At the same time, he said attempts to repeal the trade deal "would probably result in more job losses than job gains in the United States."
DailyKos.com, April 23, 2008