Northwest Territories casts eye over shale gas 04/25/2010
The Northwest Territories government has taken another tentative step towards joining the shale gas league that is spreading across Canada, although the next phase is "complicated" because of unresolv...

Mac has '4 more years' 03/28/2010
Imperial Oil NEB filing says first quarter of 2018 earliest possible startup
Proponents of the Mackenzie Gas Project have extended the earliest possible startup date by another four years to 2018, largely because of regulatory delays and the Canadian government's failure to ne...

Ho-ho-hold the holidays 01/10/2010
Proponents of Mackenzie gas have tight deadline to respond to 679-page report
It landed Dec. 30 with a thud on desks in the high-rise petroleum towers of downtown Calgary, spoiling whatever hopes employees working on the Mackenzie Gas Project might have had to put their feet up...

Gloom over Mackenzie line 05/10/2009
Kvisle: project 'may well not proceed,' partly because of gas drilling in Alaska
Faltering progress through the regulatory thicket that has entangled the Mackenzie Gas Project is generating a grim message from Hal Kvisle, chief executive officer of TransCanada. Frustrated by the d...

Backing for Mac project 04/05/2009
Conoco sees gas recovery; Canada supports APG stake; Deh Cho may be in
From the industry, government and First Nations fronts, the Mackenzie Gas Project got a boost in the last month. Kevin Meyers, president of ConocoPhillips' Canadian division, told a news briefing Marc...

Looks like a gas pipline 02/22/2009
Prentice: Mackenzie has 'never been closer'; hint of Deh Cho breakthrough
The Mackenzie Gas Project has received a double dose of good news, with Environment Minister Jim Prentice declaring that Canada has "never been closer" to moving ahead with the Arctic venture at the s...

Arctic gas lines essential 02/15/2009
TransCanada's Kvisle says demand for new supplies in North America means projects needed; joins analysts in projecting bleak 2009
TransCanada Chief Executive Officer Hal Kvisle has added his name to the lengthening list of those who believe the North American gas market will be in the dumpster for a while yet. But he also calls...

Mac delay baffles Imperial 05/25/2008
Company uncertain how long it will have to wait for JRP socio-economic report
Unexpected and unwelcome - that's the basic response from Imperial Oil to word of another delay in the Mackenzie Gas Project. Bogged down in thousands of pages of evidence, the Joint Review Panel, ch...

Imperial 'excited' about Mac 05/11/2008
A change at the helm of Imperial Oil hasn't changed the company's view of the Mackenzie Gas Project. If anything, newly installed Chief Executive Officer Bruce March sounds more enthusiastic than his...

Deh Cho, feds in quagmire over Mackenzie region land claim 04/13/2008
The longer talks drag on the more a gap seems to open between the Canadian government and the Deh Cho First Nations as they struggle to achieve a land claim settlement in a region that occupies 40 per...

Deh Cho oust grand chief; interim leader says Norwegian's exit changes nothing for Mackenzie gas line 02/17/2008
The most fervent advocate of aboriginal rights in the Northwest Territories - and, in the process, the toughest negotiator in the Mackenzie Gas Project - has been sidelined, but his community's view o...

Alberta oil sands, water in conflict 11/18/2007
New study reports high levels of carcinogens, toxic substances in fish, water and sediment downstream from projects
In the words of Mark Twain: Whisky is for drinking. Water is for fighting over. Some might consider posting that quip in large letters over 90,000 acres of what was once forest and wetlands and is now...

MGM Energy breaks new ground 10/21/2007
Mackenzie explorer strikes agreement to deliver gas to gathering pipelines; company wants assurance it can deliver what it finds
MGM Energy, the Calgary-based junior explorer with big ambitions for Canada's Far North, has signed the first "outside" deal to deliver natural gas to the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. The capac...

Step forward for Mac line 07/29/2007
Dene Tha get C$25M for economic, cultural concerns and promise to end litigation
The Canadian government has negotiated a C$25 million settlement with an aboriginal community of 2,500 in northwestern Alberta, laying the groundwork to resolve other First Nations' disputes blocking...

Conservation trumps pipeline 04/15/2007
Deh Cho take decisive step in linking Mac gas project approval to its agenda
After years of bluster, rhetoric, ultimatums and legal ploys, it seems to have finally come down to an all-or-nothing demand from the Deh Cho First Nations. The chances of unified aboriginal support f...

Deh Cho: No conservation, no pipeline 04/08/2007
This time the last aboriginal holdout against the Mackenzie gas pipeline project has the backing of four environmental groups
The Deh Cho First Nation has issued another ultimatum to the Canadian government - either a sprawling area of the Northwest Territories is set aside as a conservation area or there will be no gas...

Mackenzie natural gas pipeline project assailed from all sides 12/31/2006
Proponents of the Mackenzie Gas Project have invested about C$500 million in the venture so far, but a confluence of rising costs, weakening economics and aboriginal resistance that has slowed down th...

Clearing path for Mac gas 12/10/2006
Deh Cho ponder offer; decision in spring; Dene Tha get federal consultation officer
There are signs of action to move two stumbling blocks standing in the path of the Mackenzie Gas Project. A decision is likely this spring by the Deh Cho First Nations on whether they will accept the...

Solidarity wavers 10/15/2006
Two Deh Cho First Nations ready to split, join Mackenzie Gas Project
Cracks are appearing in the ranks of Deh Cho First Nations, with two of the 14 groups making up the umbrella organization ready to break away and join the Mackenzie Gas Project. The communities at For...

Fort Liard sale draws a blank 10/08/2006
The Canadian government's efforts to revive interest in the Fort Liard natural gas play in the Northwest Territories has fizzled. No interest was shown by any EandP companies when federal Indian and Nor...

Changes afoot in Arctic 10/01/2006
Anadarko, EnCana pull out of Canada's Arctic, but good news on Mac gas line
EnCana has put its array of northern Canadian holdings on the block, Anadarko is looking for buyers for its Mackenzie Delta and other Arctic assets, Devon Canada has backed away from drilling in Canad...

Beyond the Delta 09/24/2006
Imperial reviews Beaufort Sea discoveries, says part of on-going work
Imperial Oil is thinking beyond the Mackenzie Gas Project, but not with the current thought of tying its larger Arctic natural gas resources to a Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Its geologists are taking...

Mackenzie hydro stalled 09/17/2006
NWT stalls gas line power project because Imperial unwilling to sign deal
The Northwest Territories government has stalled a C$600 million power project to serve the Mackenzie Gas Project, while aboriginal leaders are joining forces to safeguard the quality of water in Nort...

Back the Mac or pay price 08/27/2006
Harper says NWT's failure to clear way for gas line could jeopardize hopes
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put the Northwest Territories' collective feet to the fire, linking support for the Mackenzie Gas Project to the region's hopes for a greater chunk of resour...