Energy Top Stories

CAPP sees 62% decrease in oil and gas spending for Canada

This reduction according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, is the largest two-year decline since the start of tracking this data in 1947.

Business in Vancouver | April 8, 2016 | 2:39 pm

$85 crude oil by Christmas – an interview with Mike Rothman

Oil prices may be gyrating up and down, but Mr.…

Oilprice.com | April 8, 2016 | 10:57 am

Canada unveils final anti-corruption law for the extractive sector

Estimated to cover the nearly 2,000 natural resource companies whose…

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2016 | 9:15 am

Alberta shuts oil sands environmental monitoring agency

After report concluded the program was a “failed experiment.”

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2016 | 8:18 am

The rights and wrongs of rights issues

Rights issues are the best way of raising funds in…

Hallgarten & Company | April 6, 2016 | 9:57 am

Six percent can draw gold from the moon

Following many years of net annual sales in the 400 to 500 tonne range, central banks, underweighted in gold and overweight in dollars and euro’s, became net buyers of gold.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 22, 2012 | 6:03 pm

Fortescue takes the Federal Government to court

Fortescue Metals has lodged a challenge in the High Court of Australia against the Federal Government's Minerals Resource Rent Tax on constitutional grounds.

Joshua Zapf | June 22, 2012 | 5:29 pm

Colombia goes ‘all in’ setting aside 17.6 million hectares for mining

The lands will be open for mining licenses, but a majority of them are in protected zones, so officials would have to carefully pick specific regions to auction.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 22, 2012 | 11:49 am

Drug tests coming to the oil sands this fall

Despite misgivings by unions, random drug and alcohol testing for oil sands workers will get underway later this year. The Drug and Alcohol […]

Michael Allan McCrae | June 22, 2012 | 5:10 am

Arch Coal lays off 750 workers due to ‘unprecedented downturn’

Arch Coal (NYSE:ACI), the second largest supplier of coal in the USA, is laying off 750 full-time workers at its Appalachia mining operations after owners said that demand had reached a 20-year low.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 22, 2012 | 4:45 am

Iron ore hits 5-week high as China continues to forge steel near record pace

The performance of iron ore is in stark contrast to other commodities including copper which has shed 4% over the last two days and crude oil which touched a 52-week low of under $78 a barrel today.

Frik Els | June 21, 2012 | 7:05 pm

Adani refutes foreign workers accusations

Indian coal mining giant Adani denied claims it's cheating the Australian migration system by sneaking in foreign workers.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 21, 2012 | 2:57 pm

PHOTOS: Rioting Spanish coal miners fire homemade rockets

With subsidies to Spain's coal industry about to be yanked, striking workers are ratcheting up the pressure on the government and clashing violently with police.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 21, 2012 | 5:12 am

Xstrata to pay $342 million to execs after Glencore merger triggers ‘red-top alert’

The unusual alert, considered the Association of British Insurer's most serious warning, indicates a breach in corporate governance.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 21, 2012 | 12:24 am

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