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TransCanada has known for about two years that its initial plan to install the Energy East pipeline through the Ottawa River was flawed, based on an independent engineering report.

Graham Fraser is predicting there will be backlash against the English-only documents submitted by TransCanada Corp regarding the Energy East pipeline.

It's extreme because the shift to extracting unconventional oil deposits means we have much more oil than we can burn.

Oilsands miners had been gradually returning staff to the area to begin the process of restarting production at facilities undamaged by fire but shut down because of the threat.

A three-member panel will review the NEB's work and provide a report to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr in November.

The firm is the latest member of the oilpatch to face a showdown with lenders amid depressed crude prices,

“This is a good time to listen very, very hard to what people are dealing with, what they care about, what they want for their futures and try to find those common places.”

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders are threatening "an onslaught of litigation" to block Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The premiers of Ontario and British Columbia, Kathleen Wynne and Christy Clark, both cautiously linked climate change to the Fort McMurray fires

Wildfires that levelled neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray slowed their rampage through tinder dry forest in northern Alberta on Sunday, allowing firefighters in the oilpatch city to focus on hotspots.

Alberta's woes persisted as it lost 20,800 positions in April — the most of any province.

A massive convoy is underway to move evacuees stranded at oilfield camps north of Fort McMurray, Alta., through the fire-ravaged community to safe areas south of the oilsands capital.

Bracing for a long wait for Fort McMurray: “Unfortunately, we do know that it will not be a matter of days.”