December 2, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
The 60,000 litres of crude spilled into northern Alberta muskeg last week is only the latest of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s operational accidents.
June 17, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal government’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelineis somewhat anticlimactic: It’s been expected since a Joint Review Panel gave the project a green light (with 209 conditions) late last year.
But now the gloves come off: A quintet of lawsuits seeking to overturn that review panel decision, put on hold in light of Ottawa’s pending decision, is poised to recommence, likely amid more litigation taking issue with the decision itself.
March 10, 2014 – Global News
Alberta’s Energy Regulator has rejected Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s request to start steam operations amid a series of spills that have been oozing bitumen nonstop since last May.
Leslie Young, Anna Mehler Paperny and Aalia Adam – Global News
The dozens of oil-laden rail cars barrelling downhill to Lac Mégantic this past weekend sparked a hellish inferno and unprecedented devastation. But that wasn’t Montreal Maine & Atlantic’s first runaway train.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The petroleum car explosion that set Lac Mégantic aflame and killed at least five people has also thrust oil transport into the spotlight.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Joe Oliver says relax.
Canadians should rest assured the country’s 800,00-kilometre pipeline network is safe, he says, and Ottawa’s making it safer. The Natural Resources Ministerannounced measures Wednesday to keep energy companies on the hook for their environmental damage.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young – Global News
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says new rules for pipeline companies make a safe system safer and the companies more accountable.
But even as he touted tougher penalties and expectations of corporate transparency, he said there’s no need for the National Energy Board to beef up enforcement or publish its own investigation and inspection reports.
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.
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