Yukon, NWT battle for pipeline route

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Stephen Kakfwi, the premier of the Northwest Territories, is promting his province as a potential route for a new multibillion dollar natural gas pipeline in the Artic region. The alternative route would traverse the Yukon Territory.

Water, sewer, and utility lines, Water, Sewer, and Pipeline Construction, Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Gas Pipelines Construction, Gas Pipeline Construction Regulatn, Construction industry, Energy policy, Government regulations, Gas transmission industry, Yukon Territory, Gas pipeline construction, Northwest Territories

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WTO head pleads for end to deadlock

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Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, has met with Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew in an attempt to find a way to move the stalled global free trade talks forward. The WOT is holding a global conference in Montreal, Quebec.

Foreign trade, Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, International trade, World Trade Organization, Free trade, Pettigrew, Pierre, Supachai Panitchpakdi

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Oil patch lobbying behind trust win: Ottawa suspends ownership cap

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Ottawa had proposed to restrict foreign ownership of individual energy trusts to less than 50 percent in order to avoid tax leakage. However, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale has suspended the proposal after heavy lobbying from the Calgary oil patch, which argued that the restriction was an unreasonable constraint on capital from the US, and would curb the growth of trusts and of Canada.

Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction, Crude petroleum and natural gas, Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas, Taxes, Petroleum refining, Taxation, Petroleum industry

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