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U.S. oil prices jumped two per cent to top $91 a barrel on Tuesday as the shutdown of two oilfields in the North Sea stoked supply concerns for markets already on edge from the closure of Alaska’s main crude pipeline.
 
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Oil spill

 
 
Blaming the massive BP oil spill on government and industry complacency, a White House panel on Tuesday called for a dramatic overhaul of the way the U.S. regulates offshore drilling
 
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Opinion

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Oil price stability heralds new equilibrium

Volatility in the NYMEX front month crude oil contract has dropped...


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Analysis

Gary Lamphier

Behind stellar year for junior energy stocks lurks takeover talk

Since the bear market hit bottom last March, junior energy stocks...


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Alternative Energy

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Brazil hopes Shell-Cosan deal boosts ethanol exports

Brazil’s ethanol industry, which invested heavily to boost output...


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Deborah Yedlin

Yedlin: Report overstates risk of higher oil prices

Last week the Paris-based International Energy Agency released a report warning of the risks to global economic growth if oil prices stay in the $90 US per barrel range.


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Anthony Lambert is president and CEO of Daylight Energy Ltd., which is forecasting a three per cent growth in total production for 2011, as it focuses on developing its light oil assets located in the Pembina region of Alberta.

Daylight Energy sees 3% production growth in 2011

Calgary-based oil and gas explorer Daylight Energy Ltd. forecast a three per cent growth in total production for 2011, as it focuses on developing its light oil assets located in the Pembina region of Alberta.


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Paula Simons

Inquiry's fine blueprint for Northland school district should be adopted now

A year ago this month, citing concerns over poor student performance and financial mismanagement, Education Minister David Hancock fired the entire board of the Northland School Division, appointed one super trustee to head the district and commissioned a public inquiry to investigate Northland's woes.

 
Nick Lees

A long way from drugs, the streets and despair

At age seven, hands freezing, she had to beg one set of foster parents for a pair of gloves.

 
Graham Thomson

Vitriol in U.S. politics influences Canada

Sometimes a madman with a gun is simply a madman with a gun.