Joe McWilliams
Lakeside Leader
Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
What’s known in coffee shops as ‘the Shell project’ is still a long way from fruition, but things are happening. Sure Northern Energy – which Royal Dutch Shell owns – is planning a series of community open houses in affected communities early next month to talk about what they’ve been up to. And what they’ll likely be doing in the year to come.
“Hopefully we’ll talk about some sort of field test,” says company spokesman Andrew Ritchie. A field test would be a step up from what Sure Northern has been doing so far, which is a winter drilling program to “test the resource.”