Confronting inconvenient truths
April 10, 2007
How will industry respond to Bill 3? More →
Environment
Do you know where your carbon is?
April 01, 2007
When the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) sent last month a list of questions about climate change to roughly 2,400 corporate powerhouses in twelve countries, including the 200 most valuable companies in Canada by market capitalization, the questionnaire carried the signatures of about 250 institutional investors who represent about US$40 trillion in assets More →
Why oil is not (yet) a sunset industry
April 01, 2007
On the status of worldwide liquid petroleum reserves More →
How OSUM Corp. Could Change the Face of SAGD
April 01, 2007
Underground SAGD going commercial More →
Advancing Oilsands Development one DNA fragment at a time
October 01, 2006
Since the publication of the first full DNA sequence for the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae in 1995, determining the DNA sequence of a single species has become almost commonplace — including being a way of identifying root causes of illnesses and working toward possible treatments More →
Ethanol
October 01, 2006
Will cellulose slake the growing thirst for renewables? After decades of hype and hyperventilating by both critics and champions, where is ethanol headed? Alberta Oil looks at some of the myths and mysteries surrounding this perpetually promising biofuel More →
Dinner and a Movie
July 01, 2006
The summer release of former U.S. vice president Al Gore’s documentary on climate change was made even more notorious by the appearance of comments in the world media by Mr. Gore on Alberta’s oilsands More →
Stumbling through the Media Spin
October 01, 2005
AO’s contributing author calls out for the development of a truly mainstream professional class of “environmentalists” More →
Prairie Land Consultants Inc. negotiates surface land rights and mineral leases
January 07, 2005
A cattle rancher turned land agent bridges divides between landowners and industry More →
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