Will Canada's oil boom be an environmental bust? (The Standard-Times)
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta — The largest dump truck in the world is parked under a massive mechanical shovel waiting to transport 400 tons of oily sand at an open pit mine in the northern reaches of Alberta.

Connacher provides update on Great Divide (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Connacher Oil and Gas Limited wishes to provide market participants with an update on recent activities involving the company's Pod One and Algar steam-assisted gravity drainage projects at Great Divide in the Athabasca area of Alberta's oil sands.

Rising uranium stars (Mineweb)
Amid market turmoil, good mentions go to Forsys Metals, Extract Resources, Kalahari Minerals, Summit Resources and Hathor Exploration. Had it not been for pervasive global markets turmoil, perhaps more attention would have been paid to the recent new drill hole results announced by Extract Resources out of Namibia, where governments active in chasing long term energy security include Japan, ...

Headline News (Jasper Booster)
Two men visiting from Germany were killed in an avalanche within Jasper National Park last week. The slide, which occurred on Mount Athabasca near the Columbia Icefields on Highway 93 between Jasper and Lake Louise, took the lives of 39-year-old Ulrich Bohne and 41-year-old Joseph Rademacher.

No safety standards for off-road riders (Red Deer Advocate)
One slip is all it takes. The death of an 11-year-old quad rider during his mother's birthday party last week raises new questions about whether there should be a national safety standard for the machines.