Federal cabinet to review B.C. offshore oil exploration moratorium
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VICTORIA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin's cabinet will review the controversial moratorium preventing offshore oil and gas exploration off British Columbia's north coast, a delegation of B.C. cabinet ministers was told Monday.
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KAKTOVIK, Alaska, Aug. 31 -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit Thursday to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, center of a 25-year battle over whether to tap vast oil reserves under a coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea.
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Oil giant BP is planning to review its global operations in response to last year's Texas refinery blast, a report says.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Finance Minister Ralph Goodale sat down Friday with his counterparts from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to try to work out a deal on the sharing of offshore oil and gas revenue.
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Anglo-Dutch oil firm Shell is considering the position of a number of workers as part of a review of its operations.
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State and federal agencies scrambled Friday to limit the damage from an oil spill that left deposits on 21 miles of Puget Sound shoreline.
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The Bureau of Land Management could go ahead with plans to allow drilling in a sensitive area near Teshekpuk Lake on the North Slope, an agency spokeswoman said.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The Bush administration is considering temporarily releasing crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Gulf Coast refiners that were hit by Hurricane Ivan earlier this month, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said
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TORONTO, Oct. 4 -- Canada's conservative government, groping for a new policy on climate change, is facing a dilemma over how to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from the hugely profitable Alberta oil fields in western Canada.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 4--A year-old development moratorium in the traffic-stuffed Salmon Creek area may be extended for another 12 months and could have to stretch three years beyond that.
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VICTORIA (CP) - The RCMP in British Columbia sought the written approval of the top Mountie in Canada before conducting a raid on the B.C. legislature last December, documents obtained from a federal Access to Information request show.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's natural resources minister said Friday that he thought his ministry would give the main production unit of the battered Yukos oil company a three-month warning before pulling its drilling licenses, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Top Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee ordered a new inquiry on Thursday into the Interior Departmentâs program to collect billions of dollars worth of oil and gas from companies that drill on public territory.
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The US government will consider a range of recommendations on energy policy made by a high-level panel led by the former chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil Corp., officials said Wednesday.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. (CP) - The Terra Nova offshore platform was given permission to resume drilling off Newfoundland on Monday. The platform was shut down by regulators after a spill of two barrels of oil on Dec. 20.
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.