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Alberta Venture Podcast: Fearing Foreign Investment?

Our editors Max Fawcett and Paul Marck discuss the fears and fallacies surrounding foreign investment in Canada >

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When joint venture deals go wrong

National oil companies won't always be content as the silent partner >
Report on Ontario: The Podcast

From feed-in tariffs to metal fabrication, we explore Ontario’s Green Energy Act and a new connection to Alberta’s oil sands >
The scramble to save the Mainline

As volumes drop on the system, TransCanada adjusts tolls and looks for new supplies >
Oil sands fortunes run through Asia

A proposed pipeline to the Pacific has drawn suitors from South Korea to Singapore >
Oil sands ambition shows staying power

By early 2009, setbacks dealt out to Alberta’s oil sands looked crushing. Project delays became routine >
Retired Syncrude president Jim Carter Wasn’t Exactly Welcomed Into the Calgary Petroleum Club

"At the next meeting of the club he was definitely going to move a resolution to see that I, ‘and none of your kind,’ would ever enjoy privileges in the Calgary Petroleum Club.” >
Reality check: Oil sands projects in Alberta have a history of disappointing openings

A humbling heritage of setbacks taught leaders in the early oil sands developments not to be cocky and to avoid rash promises >
How Air Standards for Power Generation Could be an Omen for the Oil Sands

Strict new green standards for power stations are on the horizon >

Here we go again

by Max Fawcett, Managing Editor

As far as bad corporate omens go the unexpected resignation of a leading executive is near the top of the list, and last Friday Toronto’s Aecon Group provided more evidence to that effect. Less than two weeks after Scott Balfour stepped down as the company’s President, a position he’d held since 2005, it issued a warning that fourth quarter results for 2010 would be dragged down by an operating loss of between $56 and $59 million (before taxes) that it would have to take on the work it did on Suncor’s Firebag 3 project. The stock, not surprisingly, tumbled more than 10 per cent on the day. >

Will Alberta’s all-stars come through?

Premier's Council for Economic Strategy needs to perform like Canada's Olympic team >

China wants Alberta to buy in

'World's biggest factory' seeks Alberta's investment in its future >

The Oilsands’ Quiet Revival

Overshadowed by the malaise in Alberta’s natural gas industry in recent months has been a quiet revival in the oilsands. >

Be Prepared to Change

Justin Robinson brings branding to the oilsands business >

It’s Lonely Being Kearl

Imperial Oil’s greenlighting of the Kearl oilsands project on May 25 should not be viewed as an inflection point for oil and gas investment. It’s a huge project and a welcome chunk of work for northern construction hands and contractors, but we’re not about to see the energy industry and investors pile back into the oilsands. As usual, Imperial is running against the herd. >