Closing the gap on emissions standards
June 02, 2010
Category: Charts
Tags: emissions, EU, US
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U.S. vehicle emissions standards could bring American drivers in line with their counterparts in the EU More →
June 02, 2010
Category: Charts
Tags: emissions, EU, US
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U.S. vehicle emissions standards could bring American drivers in line with their counterparts in the EU More →
June 17, 2009
Category: Charts
Tags: canada, emissions, oil, US
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September 16, 2008
Category: Finance
Tags: bitumen, crude, oil sands, oilsands, upgrader, upgrading, US
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Bitumen upgrading outside of Alberta will continue to grow, despite the efforts of the provincial government, say analysts More →
January 30, 2008
Category: People, Policy
Tags: Anton R. Demmer, Chris Moakley, cross-border trade, David Bronconnier, David Manning, Dick Cheney, Ed Stelmach, Gary Mar, George Bush, Henry Brown, James Oberstar, Michael Wilson, N. Murray Edwards, Orrin Hatch, Paul Michaeal Wihbey, politics, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Samuel Bodinan, Shelia Jackson Lee, Theodore Boll, Tim Mahoney, Tim Shipton, Tip O'Neill, Todd Dana, US, Washington
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The largest trade delegation in Alberta history visited Washington in mid-January, with public policy events on Capitol Hill and a business session at the historic Mayflower Hotel More →
April 01, 2007
Category: International
Tags: Mexico, oil & gas, PEMEX, US
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As newly-elected conservative Mexican President Felipe Calderón and U.S. President George W. Bush searched in Mexico City for some kind of grand bargain on oil and immigration this past March, the governments of Alberta and Mexico signed an energy cooperation agreement that could well position Alberta’s private and public sectors at the forefront of efforts to revitalize Mexico’s energy industry – particularly if both Calderón and Bush deliver on their joint commitments More →
October 01, 2006
Category: International, Policy
Tags: energy security, George Bush, Hugo Chavez, Middle East, US, Venezuela
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That support for the Bush administration has waved in step with world oil prices only raises the question: how long can the responsibility for runaway consumption be deflected by focusing on the world’s energy producers? More →
Drilling activity on the rebound in Western Canada
Shell flips switch on oil sands cleanup plant
Seeking a third term as mayor in the oil sands capital
Alta. government seeks input on land-use plan
Shell reveals its own tailings management plan
Competition heats up for Peace River Coal
Penn West teams up with Mitsubishi
Alternatives
U.S. set to approve world’s largest solar plant
U.S. solar-thermal plant gets nod in Cali
Australia’s vast geography a ‘blessing and a curse’
In Ontario, measuring noise from turbines
Natural Gas
Rush for shale gas ups environmental ante: Rubin
U.S. EPA sets sights on hydraulic fracturing
Coal’s fall from grace a boon for natural gas
International
12 dead in China pipeline blast: reports
More Saudi oil goes to China than U.S.

The proportion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico first began to outpace drilling at shallower depths in the early 1980s, figures from the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service show. The gap grew steadily until the late-1990s, when production from deepwater plays rose dramatically. The sudden increase in deepwater activity lends credence to the argument that oil is increasingly harder and more expensive to access.