Share Oh boy, this is a very good idea. Better to include reviews of these toilets… hee hee People’s Daily – Beijing will create an electronic guidance system for public lavatories. Before the Olympic Games, guides will be set up at 210 major downtown streets and street corners. By then, those seeking out public lavatories [...]
Share Why would the feds do this? Is that because any zero-emission cars will hamper the oil sands industry of Harper et al’s hometown of Alberta? It’s hard not to think that way, especially when analysts yesterday predict gas prices at the pump might climb to $2.25 a litre a year from now. AFP – [...]
Share Washington Post – The crew of a Chinese airliner bound for Beijing thwarted an attempt to crash the plane last week, a Chinese government official said Sunday. The plane had taken off from the region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, where police in January raided an office of an ethnic minority separatist group. Police [...]
Share Globe and Mail — Beijing issued a scathing rebuke Thursday of the Harper government’s unwillingness to attract Chinese investment and help sell Canadian oil to the Far East, as the state oil company PetroChina [PTR-N] said it was withdrawing support for a major pipeline between Alberta’s oil sands and a West Coast port. A [...]
Share CP – An expert in Chinese-Canadian relations says Canada should be trying to develop a strategy to persuade Chinese investment in projects like refineries to get better value out of oilsands crude, rather than shipping it to the United States for processing. Wenran Jiang, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, [...]
Share Free Internet Press – The Australian government has admitted the need to secure oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq. Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday that oil was a factor in Australia’s contribution to the unpopular war, as “energy security” and stability in the Middle East would be [...]
Share CIV – China’s state-owned companies are welcome to acquire Alberta’s oil sand drilling and extraction rights if these companese are listed and thus are subject to market rules, international trade minister David Emerson said.China National Petroleum Corp., parent company of publicly traded PetroChina Ltd., acquired a majority stake in an oil sands project in [...]
Share Forbes – China’s state-owned petroleum company acquired rights to search for oil in Canada, expanding the nation’s hunt for foreign energy to fuel its booming economy. China National Petroleum Corp., parent company of publicly traded PetroChina (nyse: PTR – news – people ) Ltd., acquired a majority stake in an oil sands project in [...]
Share Globe and Mail – In a possible first step toward becoming a producer of Canadian crude, the Chinese National Petroleum Corp., China’s largest oil company, revealed yesterday that it has acquired some land in Alberta, with the intention to eventually develop an oil sands project if possible. CNPC, the largest of China’s state-run oil [...]
Share A Chinese government source said that they had been informed by Canadian officials on a recent trip to that country that takeovers of Canadian energy companies would also face significant political obstacles. PetroChina’s A-share listing proceeds to be partly focused on overseas oil and gas targets, source says Financial Times – PetroChina, the Beijing-based, [...]
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