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• Union slams shrimp cuts
  The Anything But Conservative campaign is back on — at least it is for the leader of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ (FFAW) union.FFAW ...
• Suncor rig dumps mud on seabed
  The rig Henry Goodrich spilled 26,400 litres of synthetic-based drilling mud on the Grand Banks seabed Monday morning. The rig is drilling an ...
• Fog-bound no more
  As wind, snow and federal election predictions swirled around St. John’s airport Wednesday, federal and provincial politicians announced $25.8 ...
• Another GBS for the Grand Banks?
  Husky Energy is considering a gravity base structure for the White Rose oilfield — but it’s not a Hibernia-style GBS.It’s not even a smaller ...
• Hibernia South flowing by mid-year
  The Hibernia South oilfield is expected to start production by mid-year once a single well is drilled from the platform that sits on the Grand ...
• Newfoundland's golden boy
  Newfoundlander Mark O’Dea is back where he started 10 years ago — hunting for gold and getting a new exploration company off the ground. This ...
• Helicopter crash widow speaks out
  For Lori Chynn, the crash of Cougar Flight 491 is about the two small, titanium studs that sheared off as the helicopter flew to the Grand Banks ...
• Well, well — not well
  Nalcor Energy and its partners have abandoned plans to drill a third exploration well at Parsons Pond on the province’s west coast.Nalcor said ...
• TSB releases final report into fatal Cougar...
  The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) says passenger helicopters should be able to fly for at least 30 minutes without oil in their main gearbox ...
• Nalcor pitches Muskrat Falls to NOIA
  Nalcor Energy and Emera Inc. officials met with the federal Conservative party’s Atlantic caucus in Ottawa earlier this week to discuss the ...
• Terra Nova production drops
  Suncor Energy says production is down at the Terra Nova oilfield because the company encountered hydrogen sulphide in some oil wells late last ...
• Weather ahoy
  Anchored at the mouth of Placentia Bay, a two-tonne weather buoy loaded with sensors monitors wind, tide and visibility in one of the foggiest ...
• AG: government vehicles bigger, more expensive
  Auditor General John Noseworthy says the province’s fleet of light highway vehicles — sedans, SUVs, trucks and ATVs — is getting bigger, ...
• Hydro surplus predicted
  Ontario may have more hydro power than it’ll need as wind energy comes onstream in the next two years — potentially bad news for projects such as ...
• Replenishing oil reserves
  Suncor Energy’s Alan Brown says more offshore oil exploration is needed off Newfoundland and Labrador. Suncor, operator of the Terra Nova ...
• SmartBay buoyed by funding
  The SmartBay project in Placentia Bay will reel in $224,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) over the next two years.An ...
• A well in time
  How do you keep an offshore exploration licence as it nears expiration? Diligently pursue drilling the well, to paraphrase the offshore ...
• Mortgage rules won’t cool market
  A trio of real estate agents in the St. John’s area say Ottawa’s new mortgage rules won’t send the local housing market into a deep freeze ...
• Union, Vale disagree again
  An industrial inquiry report into the 17-month-old Voisey’s Bay labour dispute seems no further ahead in bringing striking workers and the mining ...
• Labrador’s next iron ore mine OK’d
  New Millennium Capital Corp. aims to become one of the biggest miners in western Labrador — and its direct shipping ore project is the first ...
• Mind-bottling
  The day before Christmas Eve at the liquor corporation’s bottling plant in St. John’s, the Iceberg Vodka line is running.Hundreds of clear ...
• Cougar’s helicopter OK’d for flights
  Suncor Energy says an offshore helicopter that experienced “higher than normal” vibration during an aborted Monday morning flight checked ...
• Helicopter aborts flight at rig
  A helicopter transporting offshore workers from the Henry Goodrich safely returned to the drill rig when the aircraft experienced “higher than ...
• Subsidy? What subsidy?
  When Memorial University economist Wade Locke saw studies by a renowned Canadian economist that said the province’s royalty regime unfairly ...
• Hydro deal spawns opportunities
  Armed with a laser pointer and a map of the Lower Churchill transmission route, Nalcor Energy president and CEO Ed Martin walked business people ...
• West coast drilling lessons
  Drilling onshore exploration wells may be cheaper than offshore drilling, but it isn’t as fast as Nalcor Energy was expecting at Parsons Pond.The ...
• The royalty game
  It’s no surprise oil is the economic driver of the provincial economy these days. What’s less known is that royalty rates have climbed higher ...
• Statoil snags land in Flemish Pass
  Statoil Canada bid $96.4 million for the rights to three parcels of offshore land in the deepwater Flemish Pass about 500 kilometres off ...
• FAA issues new directive for S-92
  Improvements to the main gearbox of the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter haven’t solved the problem of cracking foot mounts. Earlier this month, the U.S. ...
• Sea change
  The MV Caribou left the Marine Atlantic dock at Port aux Basques Friday morning on the last of its more than 160,000 trips to North Sydney, N.S. ...