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 == Oil sand companies == 

 Are there really no new information about the status of the large amount of projects under that point?! Most are ""approved"", ""under construction"" or ""applied for"" and one (2011) ""anounced"". ""Operating"" (green color) are only 5 of the projects on the list, and that didn't change for over 2 years, I think more 3 than 2. At this time 3 ""under construction"" projects were listed, ""Start up"" was 2007 and 2008 for the 2 SunCor-Projects and 2010 ""Start Up"" for the Royal Dutch Shell project, Shell got another 6 projects, one of these ""operating"" since 2002 at 155,000 barrels a day. Canadas oil production increased in the last years, and the oil sands where the reason. The onshore oil fields in the populated areas are already mature and off-shore oil or oil fields in the unsettled (except forr very few small towns, mostly from the Indians that live there already for thousand year) are not developed yet due to the high cost and the available oil from the oil sands!  

 If someone has a reference I would update the ""graphic"" too as far as I can... sorry for my bad english and greetings from Berlin )   "