January 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Things are ugly in the oilpatch. But they’re especially ugly if you’re a man. Most of all, if you’re a man who hasn’t graduated high school.
July 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Melissa Ramsay, Global News
Oil and gas company Nexen’s automatic detection system didn’t detect a ruptured pipeline that resulted in a massive bitumen emulsion spill this week, senior vice-president Ron Bailey told reporters in Calgary Friday morning.
June 17, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Conservatives gave the green light Tuesday to one of the biggest energy projects out there – a $6.5-billion pipeline promising to open Alberta’s oilsands to the Asian market at the rate of more than half a million barrels a day.
But they seemed awfully sheepish about it.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
While the fate of TransCanada’s embattled Keystone XL remains uncertain 70-odd months into its quest to link Alberta’s oilsands with the Gulf of Mexico, another Canadian company’s lesser-known, less-scrutinized pipeline project is on track to make it there first.
And the Alberta government is weighing whether it wants in.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
A gas pipeline ruptured by flood-driven debris continued to leak sour gas Thursday evening as a record-setting deluge in southern Alberta prevented workers from shutting it off.
Leslie Young and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
A 9.5-million litre spill of oil-extraction wastewater detected in northwest Alberta this month was the province’s tenth largest “produced water” spill in almost four decades.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
British Columbia’s rejection Friday of the Northern Gateway project (or its current incarnation, anyway) is a victory for grassroots opposition and a cautionary tale for the pipeline giant behind it.
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.
a business of misfits 