Oil Sands Question and Response (OSQAR) Blog

Industry looking to checkmate tailings in this match

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The World Chess Championship, Reykjavik, Iceland 1972. The Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, defending champion, is defeated by Bobby Fischer of the United States. Dubbed the Match of the Century, it was hailed as one of the greatest single applications of human intellect.

Impacting the environment: it’s a human thing

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People are naturally fascinated by news, and these days it seems an increasing amount of it involves new research results which add to, or sometimes contradict, previous findings on a subject.

Does new tailings report offer ingredients for pond be gone?

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Oil sands tailings – what’s left after the raw sand has been processed to extract the useful bitumen – has always been a complex challenge for the industry.

Helping decongest traffic one bus at a time

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They’re loathed and despised around the world, perhaps by no group more than by the stout hearts who rise each work day to commute to oil sands facilities.

Suncor sustainability performance: It’s all about perspective

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Just about everybody has at one time or another felt anxious about an impending report card and how others might react to it. As former students, we all remember those nervous days in anticipation of receiving our grades.

Stinky, mucky and oh so valuable

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Everything is nature has a purpose, so the saying goes. So what about places where you can’t venture without rubber boots, gloves, or bug spray? Surely we don’t need those mucky, swampy wetlands that abound across Alberta. They’re stinky, mushy, and not always suitable for camping, picnics and boating. 

Seeing the forest AND the trees

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Location, location, location — it’s as important for oil sands developers as it is for other businesses. For Suncor and its industry peers, the sought-after real estate is within the 142,200 square kilometres of land that lies atop Alberta’s oil sands.

How many toil for you?

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What’s that slurping noise? It could very well be our collective snouts feeding from the world energy trough.

 

So a polar bear, kangaroo and moose walk into a bar...

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Sometimes it seems it’s all or nothing for Alberta’s oil sands regulation. Environmental oversight is often seen by critics as too weak, or unnecessarily stringent by advocates. While oil sands opponents insist the government isn’t doing enough to mitigate its impacts, development supporters say regulation is not only adequate and effective, it is erring towards over-regulation, unnecessarily constraining the development of a vital and valuable resource for Alberta and Canada.

The importance of caribou: more than just spare change

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We’ve all touched caribou...and they’ve touched us. After all, this iconic ungulate appears on every single one of the millions of quarters that trade across the country daily. In fact, the caribou has adorned the Canadian 25-cent piece for three quarters of a century.