Posts Tagged ‘canadian oil industry’
Who Benefits: An investigation of Foreign Ownership in the Oil Sands - Summary of Report
This post was written by Oil Sands Divestment and published on July 1, 2021. On May 11, 2020, environmental organizations; Environmental Defence, Stand.earth, and Équiterre published an investigative report analyzing the foreign ownership of the Canadian oil sands. The COVID-19 pandemic greatly disrupted the global economy, including the oil and gas industry. However, prior to…
Read MoreOld, small and CO2-intense: why Canada’s highest-carbon oil sands sites keep pumping
This article was written by Rod Nickel and was published on Reuters on June 28, 2021. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 28 (Reuters) - In the shadow of Canada’s mega oil sands projects, smaller, technologically outdated facilities produce up to three times more emissions per barrel than the already high sector average- and rising oil prices have…
Read MoreCanada’s climate plan charts hard road ahead for high-polluting oil sands
This article written by Rod Nickel and Nia William originally appeared on Reuters on June 22, 2021. WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CALGARY, Alberta, June 22 (Reuters) - Canada has set ambitious targets for slashing emissions to fight climate change, but faces a stiff challenge: not only is its economy dependent on oil production, but the Canadian oil industry’s…
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