Posts tagged with ‘oil’ (18)
Posted by Heather Yundt
in Energy
on Saturday, June 08, 2013
How much do you know about energy in Canada? Launching in October, Energy IQ’s curriculum-linked energy education program will teach Canadians about growing demand, the energy mix, emerging technologies, regulatory requirements and much more.
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Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion would result in more tankers off of Vancouver. (Photo: Mat Hampson)
Kinder Morgan has submitted its plan for the proposed expansion of its existing Trans Mountain pipeline, setting in motion the National Energy Board review process that is expected to take about two years once the final proposal is in later this year. The company plans to add a new line to triple the capacity of the existing pipeline, which carries light and heavy oil from Edmonton to the Pacific coast in Burnaby, B.C.
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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A typical peatland adjacent to oil sands mines. Credit: Suzanne Bayley
In a promotional video for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Patrick Moore marvels at weeds.
As the co-founder of Greenpeace walks through what appears to be a lush meadow, brushing the tips of his fingers over grasses, he extols the beauty of a landscape that was once a mining operation in the Alberta oil sands. The land, Moore says, has been successfully reclaimed, meaning it has been converted from an open-pit mine to a self-sustaining natural state.
A new study to be published ...
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Posted by Claudia Goodine
in Energy
on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A word cloud of book titles from the past decade, all relating to oil.
Claudia Goodine takes a glance at the past, courtesy of the Canadian Geographical Journal archives.
In just over 60 years, the way we speak about oil has dramatically changed.
In E.M. Holbrook's 1949 feature article, Oil from the Earth, pages from a not so distant history capture the height of our love affair with petroleum.
"What substance in the world is most useful to man?" Holbrook writes.
"Which portion of Nature's generous bounty is of the greatest benefit to civilization's constant ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Photo: flickr\Jeff Pang
Canada is home to around 3 million of the world’s 5 million lakes. For years writer Allan Casey has been pouring them into his writing, culminating in his first book, 2009’s Governor General’s Literary Award winning Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada. Two articles Casey penned for Canadian Geographic became the backbone for chapters in the book: one on the algae problem on Lake Winnipeg (Nov/Dec 2006) and the other about over development on the Okanagan Lake (July/August 2008). Yet its core ...
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