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Canadian Oil Sands' 2011 Cash Flow from Operations Up 54 Per Cent from 2010

CALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Canadian Oil Sands Limited All financial figures are unaudited and in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.Highlights for the three and 12-month period ended December 31, 2011: --  Cash flow from operations was $363 million  ...

CCS awareness higher on Prairies than the rest of Canada

CALGARY, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Public awareness and acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a tool to combat climate change is higher in Saskatchewan and Alberta than the rest of Canada, ...

Pa. drilling fee would yield $180M in 1st year

Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry would pay a fee for the first time, with the money spread across drilling communities and to state infrastructure and environmental programs, and have to obey tougher safety standards under sweeping legislation speeding toward votes in the Republican-controlled state Legislature as early as Tuesday.

Micro-Bubbles Cut Cost of Algae-Derived Biofuel

Algae naturally produce oil. When it’s processed, that oil can be turned into biofuel, an alternative energy source. There’s just one snag--harvesting the oil from algae-filled water is prohibitively expensive. But researchers have come up with an effervescent solution: bubbles smaller than the width of a human hair can help reduce the costs of collecting algae oil. [More]

WRAPUP 1-Europe gas supply up, but Italy says critical

* European Commission says not a crisis * Italy considers suspending flows to businesses * Bad weather interrupts Italy's LNG terminal operations LONDON/ROME, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Gas supplies to thefrozen ...