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January 23
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Alberta authorizes Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) to grant a development permit for Dow Chemical of Canada's Fort Saskatchewan vinyl chloride monomer plant
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February 14
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Shell Canada's Claus Off-gas treating plant at Pincher Creek, the largest in the world, begins operation
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April 27
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Federal Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie tables a broad plan in the House of Commons designed to manage Canada's energy future and reach self-sufficiency by 1985
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May 1
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Delivery of Western Canadian oil to Montreal begins through the Interpovincial Pipe Line extension
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May 7
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Industry expenditures reached a record $4.11 billion in 1975, up 21% from 1974
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May 19
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Foothills Pipelines, Westcoast Transmission and Alberta Gas Trunkline agree to provide a cross-Canada link for Northwest Pipeline's project to deliver Alaskan gas to the lower 48 states
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May 21
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Federal policy paper on the new Canada Oil and Gas lands Administration changes land regulations in effect since 1961
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July 5
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Alberta issues new petroleum and natural gas lease and licence regulations, effective July 1
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July 21
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Dome, Dow Chemical, Alberta Gas Trunk Line and Alberta Gas Ethylene begin building the first phase of petrochemical development at Joffre; total cost of the development is estimated at $1.5 billion
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August 4
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Petro-Canada acquired 100% of Atlantic Richfield Canada for $240 million
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September 1
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Petrofina Canada Ltd., operator of a four-company group planning a 122,000 barrel a day Athabasca oil sands plant, shelves the project indefinitely due to lack of a government policy on royalty, taxation and escalating costs; Shell and Home, backing separate oil sands projects, shelve theirs as well
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October 19
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ERCB approves construction of an $80 million, 270-mile line from the Sycncrude oil sands plant to IPL's Edmonton terminal
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November 22
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Representations to the Berger Commission, commonly known as the Mackenzie Valley pipeline inquiry, come to an end after nearly two years of hearings
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