CALGARY, Alberta, July 8 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L:Quote, Profile, Research) has canceled plans to build a new multibillion-dollar refinery near Sarnia, Ontario, due to poor market conditions and surging costs, the oil major said on Tuesday.
St. Clair River
UPDATE 1-Shell scraps plans for new Canadian refinery
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Canada, U.S. increasingly at odds over pollution issues
Other looming issues include:
Shell Canada's plans for a heavy-oil refinery near Sarnia that could produce 150,000 to 200,000 barrels per day of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Canada proposes refinery, dump
Shell Canada plans a giant refinery along five miles of St. Clair River shoreline now dotted with farms and marinas, across from St. Clair and Marine City. The refinery would process up to 250,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil from rich tar sands in Alberta, making fuel for the Canadian market.
Geese covered in oil; Four birds shunned by other fowl
Until you get close enough to notice these Canada geese are covered with a black, oil-like discolouration. "It's a sad sight," said Shell Sarnia refinery spokesperson Kristina Zimmer.
First Nations group campaigns against refinery project
A women's group from Walpole Island First Nation will host a traditional aboriginal ceremony today in support of a panel study into the proposed Shell refinery project.
