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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at the Dow Chemical announcement, that will finalized plans to construct the world's first net-zero carbon emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, in Fort Saskatchewan Alberta, on Wednesday November 29, 2023. Canadian Utilities Ltd., a subsidiary of Calgary-based holding company ATCO Ltd., says it plans to build a new natural gas pipeline in Alberta to supply a massive net-zero petrochemical project being built northeast of Edmonton. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Frans
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ATCO subsidiary to build new Alta. pipeline to supply gas to petrochemical project

Canadian Utilities Ltd., a subsidiary of Calgary-based holding company ATCO Ltd., says it plans to build a new natural gas pipeline in Alberta...

Suncor Energy Inc. says it is leasing and operating a number of Aframax oil tanker ships to carry crude from the recently completed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to Pacific markets. A truck carries oilsands at Suncor's facility near Fort McMurray on Friday, Sep. 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Victor R. Caiv
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Suncor leasing oil tanker ships to carry crude from Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

Suncor Energy Inc. says it is leasing and operating a number of Aframax oil tanker ships to carry crude from the recently completed...

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US’s largest public utility ignores warnings over new natural gas plant

TVA gas plant moving ahead despite EPA's criticism of environmental review that apparently showed renewable alternative was unfeasible.

FILE - A grain wagon supports a sign against the proposed transmission line by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative, along Highway 18-151 near Ridgeway, Wis., Dec. 8, 2018. A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. The utility companies are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile (164-kilometer) transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. About a mile of the line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File, file)
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High-voltage power line through Mississippi River refuge approved by federal appeals court

About a mile of the high-voltage power line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin.

Intermediate oilsands producer MEG Energy Corp. expects the recently completed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will boost Canadian oil prices for years to come. The MEG Energy Corp. logo is seen in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, MEG Energy *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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MEG Energy says Trans Mountain expansion will boost Canadian oil prices ‘for years’

Intermediate oilsands producer MEG Energy Corp. expects the recently completed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will boost Canadian oil prices for years to come.

A drone view of the flooded Beira-Rio stadium home of the Sport Club Internacional in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara
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Brazil floods death toll rises to 90, dozens still stranded

Almost half a million people were without power in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and...

Electric power transmission pylon miniatures and Sempra Energy logo are seen in this illustration taken, December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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US utility Sempra’s profit falls 17% in first quarter

U.S. power and gas utility Sempra posted a 17% drop in its first-quarter profit on Tuesday, impacted by lower earnings at two of...

FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen operating in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas, U.S. on May 3, 2017. Picture taken May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Ernest Scheyder/File Photo
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US power and natgas prices turn negative in Texas, California and Arizona

US spot power and natgas prices turned negative in Texas, California and Arizona as pipeline maintenance trapped gas in the Permian Shale

A view of Duke Energy's Marshall Power Plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, U.S. November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo
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Duke Energy beats first-quarter profit estimates on higher rates

Duke Energy beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the utility benefited from higher rates and robust demand for electricity

A view of the skyline in Asuncion, Paraguay March 17, 2023. REUTERS/Cesar Olmedo/File Photo
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Paraguay pushes rival bid for $1.5 billion Argentina-Brazil gas connector

Paraguay is advancing talks with Argentina and Brazil over a potential $1.5 billion gas pipeline to connect the three countries

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