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Post by moabiter on Sept 8, 2010 9:33:46 GMT -8
Firms team up in Arctic Imperial joins BP, Exxon in offshore ventureJuly 31, 2010 Canada's oldest oil and gas company will team up with BP and ExxonMobil to drill in the Arctic off shore, Imperial Oil representatives said Friday. Imperial spokesman Pius Rolheiser confirmed the three companies have concluded an agreement to form a joint venture to explore for oil and gas on a pair of offshore parcels in the Beaufort Sea. The parcels in question include Exploration Licence 446, which Imperial and Exxon jointly acquired in July of 2007 for work commitment bids of $585 million and EL 449, which BP acquired in June 2008 for $1.18 billion. www.calgaryherald.com/news/Firms+team+Arctic/3345092/story.html
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Post by moabiter on Sept 8, 2010 9:33:57 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Sept 8, 2010 20:47:33 GMT -8
BP lobbies Canada to remove relief well legislationCanadian law requires relief wells be drilled in the same season the main well is drilled, but in the midst of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP lobbies Canadian legislators to drop the regulations. OTTAWA, May 13 (Reuters) - Exasperated Canadian legislators grilled the head of BP Plc (BP.L) Canadian unit on Thursday, concerned about the risks of the company's plans to drill in Arctic waters after the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But Anne Drinkwater, president of BP Canada, offered few answers at a hearing at Parliament's Standing Committee on Natural Resources on the safety of drilling in the Far North. Drinkwater, who has also run BP operations in Indonesia, Angola and Norway, declined to answer technical questions and said she had not compared Canadian and U.S. drilling regulations, straining the credulity of some on the committee. www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1326556220100513
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Post by moabiter on Oct 27, 2010 5:09:56 GMT -8
Imperial, BP pitch Arctic drilling to northerners Last Updated: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | 7:05 PM CT Residents of Inuvik, N.W.T., have mixed reactions to plans by Imperial Oil and BP to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea. The two energy giants held a public meeting Monday night in the Arctic town, as part of a northern tour in which their proposed offshore exploration is being pitched to people in the region. The two companies, along with Imperial parent corporation ExxonMobil, are in a joint venture, created in July, to prepare for potential oil and gas exploration in a large area of the Beaufort Sea. www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/10/26/beaufort-drilling-imperial-bp.html
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Post by moabiter on Oct 27, 2010 5:31:49 GMT -8
Oct 22/10 - Pt 3: Inuit Elders & Climate Change Acclaimed filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explains why the wisdom of Inuit elders has much to tell scientists about climate change. Inuit and Climate ChangeThe Arctic's Inuit will tell you the winds are shifting ... the ground is melting underfoot and the sun is no longer where it's supposed to be. For Zacharias Kunuk - the Inuit director of the award-winning film Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - those Inuit elders are also in the best position to tell climate scientists what's really happening in the Arctic. So he teamed up with Ian Mauro, an environmental scientist and filmmaker from Winnipeg who's also spent years living in the Canadian North. Together they've documented the observations and reflections of Inuit elders. Their new film is called Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro joined us in our Toronto studio. The documentary will premiere tomorrow night at 7 pm at the ImagineNative Film Festival in Toronto. The event will also be webcast live at www.isuma.tv/ikcc. www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/10/oct-2210---pt-3-inuit-climate-change.html
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