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- Alberta Energy Company
Eco-terrorism has plagued the Alberta oil and gas industry for several years. The CEO of Alberta Energy Corporation must decide whether or not his company participates in a RCMP orchestrated sting operation that might lead to the arrest of the terr...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- BP and Corporate Greenwash
Bp's green re-branding efforts began officially with the unveiling of its new bp Helios mark, named after the Greek sun god. The new logo did away with 70 years of corporate branding, replacing the bp shield, long associated in consumers' minds with...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- BRE-X: A Regulator's Nightmare
The Bre-X case study tells the story of one of Canada's most famous stock market scandals. From its beginning as a junior gold mining stock, by 1996 and early 1997 Bre-X was one of the most successful listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In a s...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Resource Extraction
- Calgas
Calgas is one of Canada's top 25 oil and gas producers, with multinational principal shareholders and a multinational board of directors. A board member has been shopping the company without the board's knowledge or approval, and has been unsuccessf...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Cameco in Kyrgystan: Corporate Social Responsibility Abroad
Based in Saskatoon, Canada, Cameco was the world's largest uranium mining company. It had developed its policy for corporate social responsibility in northern Saskatchewan where it had its major mining operations and where there were a large indigen...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- China Minmetals Corporation and Noranda Inc.
The proposed takeover of Noranda Inc. (one of the biggest mineral players in the world) by the Chinese state owned enterprise, China Minmetals Corporation, was cause for Canadian government concern as it required some understanding about the working...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Deadly Work
The 1992 Westray Mine Explosion
Disciplines: Human Resource Management, Resource Extraction
- Divesting the Zambian Mining Industry
The Zambian government embarked on a divesture of its mining industry in 1992. However, by July of 2004, 67 per cent of the mining assets were still in government hands and the government is still looking for equity partners. This case can be used a...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Ethics Management at Imperial Oil Ltd.
The communications manager of a large petroleum refining company must review the design of the organization in regards to its' ethical corporate culture. Various organizations design efforts have been made including: a code of business practices, an...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management, Resource Extraction
- GVM Exploration Limited
GVM Exploration Limited's (GVM) $2 million environmental assessment project at Grizzly Valley was disrupted by a road blockade set up by a small group of local First Nation people. How GVM handled this situation would not only affect the progress of...
Disciplines: General Management, Resource Extraction
- Inco and the Voisey's Bay Decision
After paying $4.3 billion in 1996, for one of the world's largest deposits of high-grade, low-cost nickel at Voisey's Bay, in Labrador, Canada, by 1998 Inco Ltd. projected it would not be able to mine any ore until at least 2001. During this period ...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Investing in African Oppression
Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the Nigerian Delta
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Mansfield Minera’s Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
This document reports the results of a field study that was conducted October 11-15, 2011. After a description of the context (company, area, and social and environmental factors) and of the field observations, the results are discussed in terms of ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, General Management, Leadership, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Manville Corporation, The
Manville is a diversified mining, timber, and manufacturing company with about 30,000 employees and 125 facilities. The company is the world’s largest producer of asbestos and asbestos-based products. The dangers of ingesting asbestos fibers began ...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business Ethics, Finance, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- Mearl Oil Company: Environmental Impact Targets (A, B, C)
Mearl Canada Limited does not want to implement Mearl Oil Company's environmental impact targets because, in Mearl Canada's opinion, the targets create an extra layer of regulation for considerable cost and negligible benefit. Mearl's position is th...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Noranda-Andacollo
Noranda is preparing to develop a $400 million copper mine in Chile. The Task Force of Canadian Churches opposes the investment because of the lack of human rights in Chile and has made its presence felt at Noranda's last five annual meetings. Enoug...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Northern Mines Limited (A)
A leading Canadian mining company had recently closed two uranium mines and begun the lengthy and complex regulatory process to obtain approval of their clean-up plans for the mine, surface facilities and waste management areas. The accounting issue...
Disciplines: Accounting, Resource Extraction
- Northern Mines Limited (B)
A leading Canadian mining company had recently closed two uranium mines and begun the lengthy and complex regulatory process to obtain approval of their clean-up plans for the mine, surface facilities and waste management areas. Northern Mines (B) s...
Disciplines: Accounting, Resource Extraction
- Northern Mines Limited (C)
A leading Canadian mining company had recently closed two uranium mines and begun the lengthy and complex regulatory process to obtain approval of their clean-up plans for the mine, surface facilities and waste management areas. Northern Mines (C) d...
Disciplines: Accounting, Resource Extraction
- Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Pembina Pipeline Corporation transports light crude oil and natural gas liquids in western Canada. The president of the company is abruptly awakened one night by a phone call from his operations manager. He is informed that one of Pembina's pipeline...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management, Resource Extraction
- Preparing to Mine: The Rio Tinto Venture inMadagascar
In 1986 Rio Tinto (RT), one of the world’s largest mining companies, discovered a rich source of titantium oxide along several beaches in southeast Madagascar. Once this mine becomes operational, RT estimates that it could supply up to one tenth of ...
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation
The focus of the case is on the privatization of Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation by way of an initial public offering. It is written from the perspective of an investment banker, Wood Gundy, who has been requested to submit a proposal to the pr...
Disciplines: Finance, Resource Extraction
- Shell Oil in Nigeria
Royal Dutch Shell, the oil company, faced widespread international criticism following the execution of Nigerian novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November, 1995. Saro-Wiwa had been a vocal opponent of Shell's environmental and human rights pol...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Smoking and Mirrors
The FDA and Tobacco Company Litigation
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Statoil Iran
Less than one year after being awarded a contract to develop one of the world's largest offshore petroleum fields, Statoil's future in Iran appeared to be in jeopardy. Statoil was at the center of a corruption investigation that had resulted in the ...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Suncor in the Oil Sands Industry
Describes the economics, technology, and politics of the oil sands industry, focusing on one of the industry's leading firms. Oil sands deposits in Alberta represent a potentially vast reserve of hydrocarbons, but the extraction, refining, and trans...
Disciplines: Economics, Resource Extraction
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.Earning its Social License to Operate
Syncrude’s CSR activities are founded on a belief that sustainable development not only incorporates environmental and economic objectives, but also acknowledges the importance of stakeholder relations to business success. The company engages a broa...
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Talisman Energy and its Sudan Investment
Calgary, Alberta-based Talisman Energy is facing a public-relations nightmare and an ethical dilemma concerning its investment in the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), a joint venture operating in Sudan. Talisman's 25 percent interes...
Disciplines: Business - General, Business Ethics, Government, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Talisman Energy Inc.
Talisman Energy is the largest Canadian oil and gas producer, with main business activities in exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquid. At a special board of directors meeting, the manageme...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Tembec Inc. (A & B)
Throughout the 1990s there was increasing competition for Ontario's forest land. The forest industry, including Tembec Inc., demanded from the Ontario government more certainty in the lands available to them. To reach a consensus on strategic land u...
Disciplines: General Management, Resource Extraction
- The Raglan Mine and Nunavik Inuit
Mining companies have developed their mines in lands inhabited by indigenous peoples all over the globe. Many of these operations have occasioned criticism and protest by indigenous people and their friends (Whiteman and Mamen 2001). From the persp...
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
- Thorn in the Elephant's Side: The Seattle Mennonite Church vs. Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., The
The Seattle Mennonite Church, owners of stock in Freeport McMoRan, Copper & Gold, Inc. (FCX), was concerned about FCX's mining operations in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The company, in partnership with the Indonesian government, operated the world's larg...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- Wealth and Poverty in the Niger Delta: A Study of the Experiences of Shell in Nigeria
Royal Dutch/Shell has been extracting oil in the Niger Delta since 1958. Over the course of more than forty years this oil has produced enormous revenues, billions of dollars worth. By 2003 oil export revenues had reached $290 billion (Litvin 2003, ...
Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
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