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Alberta Innovates & NRCan awarding $26.2M to three oil sands clean tech projects; industry kicking in $43.3M

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Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. The three industry partners, Cenovus Energy, Field Upgrading, and MEG Energy are investing $43.3

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Suncor Energy and partners proceeding with $13.5B Fort Hills oil sands project; 180 kb/d planned bitumen capacity

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Suncor Energy, together with joint venture co-owners Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Teck Resources Limited, is proceeding with the Fort Hills oil sands mining project, located 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of Fort McMurray. The Fort Hills Energy LP consists of three limited partners: Suncor (40.8% billion ($5.5

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Suncor Energy Receives Conditional Regulatory Approval for Oil Sands Tailings Management Plan; Projected 30% Reduction in Volume

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Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”.

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Alberta approves Cenovus Narrows Lake oil sands project with demo and phase-in of solvent aided process to improve steam-oil ratio and production rate

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The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has given approval to Cenovus Energy Inc. to proceed with its Narrows Lake oil sands project, with an ultimate gross production capacity of 130,000 barrels per day. SAP combines steam injection with solvents, such as butane, to help bring the oil to the surface.

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TransCanada to proceed with $12B, 1.1M barrel/day Energy East oil pipeline project to Eastern Canada

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million barrel per day (bbl/d) Energy East Pipeline project based on binding, long-term contracts received from producers and refiners. The Energy East Pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 1.1 million bbl/d and is anticipated to be in service by late-2017 for deliveries in Québec and 2018 for deliveries to New Brunswick.

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BOEM releases for comment draft EIS on G&G survey activities to develop energy resources in Mid- and South Atlantic

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The US Department of Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released for public comment the draft Atlantic Geological and Geophysical (G&G) Activities Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). Public meetings to receive comments are scheduled in Jacksonville, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C;

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Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

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and are destined to rise significantly with the use of heavy oils, tar sands, and bitumen as combustion sources. Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health. Klein, and Avner Vengosh (2017) “Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715500114.

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