CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Regulators have approved three expansion stages at Suncor Energy Inc's Firebag oil sands project that will eventually add output of 188,000 barrels of bitumen a day, Suncor said on Thursday. The production phases, given the green light by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, would follow the C$3.6 billion ($3.6 billion) phase ...

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Steam-driven projects to extract crude from Canada's oil sands, often held up as more environmentally friendly than mining, have major drawbacks of their own that require more stringent regulation to fix, an environmental think tank said on Wednesday. The Alberta-based Pembina Institute compared nine projects that employ "in situ" extraction methods -- where steam is pumped into ...

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Police say two men are dead and another is wounded after a gunman fired shots at a car dealership in Western Canada. Inspector Denis Jubinville said Friday that police responding to an emergency call at the Great West Chrysler Jeep in Edmonton, Alberta, found three males had been shot. Jubinville says ...