Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
Pipeline cleanup after a break northeast of Peace River, Alta., on May 4, 2011.
CALGARY AND TORONTO – The cracked pipe sleeve behind the second-biggest oil spill in Alberta’s history had been flagged as a hazard more than two decades earlier by the national regulator responsible for pipeline safety.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
What happens if you stop a pipeline?
Economic catastrophe, say some. Environmental salvation, others argue.
But so far, one of the most immediate impacts of delayed or stymied pipelines is more oil transported by other methods.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
In theory, stringent rules mean even the tiniest spill or pipeline damage is reported and dealt with immediately, with checks built in to ensure compliance. In practice, it doesn’t always work that way.
Patrick Cain and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
A Global News exposé of Toronto’s most treacherous intersections for pedestrians prompted the city to do an in-depth review of its own, and come up with an action plan to make city streets safer for pedestrians.
James Armstrong and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
TORONTO – Dellen Millard, the well-educated CEO of an airline services company and the son of a successful businessman, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Tim Bosma.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
On a rainy February afternoon in 2009, Sam Fitzpatrick was crushed to death when a boulder more than 1.5 metres in diameter tumbled downhill through his worksite near Toba Inlet, B.C., striking his head as he drilled rock.
He died almost instantly. He was 24.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
B.C. Transportation Minister Mary Polak says documents obtained by Global News detailing concerns about ice falling from the Port Mann bridge just weeks before ice fell from the Port Mann Bridge prove the province did its due diligence in asking contractor Kiewit-Flatiron for evidence the structure would be safe.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
This has been a rough couple of years for Kiewit Corp’s west-coast bridges.
In the past year, two ambitious bridges it’s working on – one in California, the other in Washington – have become mired in concerns about design and structural integrity.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
TORONTO – The city is cautioning its staff not to compare National Household Survey information with data from the long-form census.
“Because of the change from a mandatory to a voluntary sample, the NHS may under-report the number of people belonging to certain subgroups,” reads a briefing note being sent out to key staff members who would normally work closely with this kind of demographic information.
Leslie Young and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Engineers at a B.C. Crown corporation raised concerns about snow and ice falling from cables on the Port Mann Bridge more than three years before a winter storm caused just that, sending sheets of ice onto drivers on the newly opened structure.
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