SUNCOR BEGINS REGULATORY PROCESS TO EXPAND OIL SANDS MINING.

Industrial Environment,  April, 2007  

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Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary, has initiated the regulatory approval and stakeholder consultation process on plans to develop an expanded oil sands mining operation when it filed a public disclosure document with government officials recently.

The proposed project, to be called Voyageur South, would be located north of Fort McMurray on the west side of Highway 63 (about three kilometres southwest of Suncor's existing oil sands operation). Suncor plans to develop the mining operation using new technologies that are expected to improve operational performance while mitigating the ...

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