January 27, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
There will be talking.
Pipe dreams: What you need to know about Canada’s changing pipeline process
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Alberta men have higher unemployment than the Canadian average for the first time since 1989
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.
‘Nobody should be surprised’ Canada’s economy is in rough shape
November 20, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Maybe you heard: Canada’s books took a turn for the ugly over the past few months.
Or, as Finance Minister Bill Morneau put it when he unveiled his government’s fall economic update Friday morning, the economy “tilted to the downside.”
Pipeline politics: Oilsands and the 2015 election
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News – August 29, 2015
When the federal election kicks into high gear during the final stretch of a marathon campaign, a high-profile case that could change Canadian resource development will play out in a B.C. courtroom.
Alberta oil spill: When ‘failsafe’ leak detection systems fail
July 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Nexen is investigating why its “failsafe” leak detection system failed to detect what turned out to be a massive spill that leaked 5,000 cubic metres of bitumen, sand and wastewater into an area of northern Alberta so remote the oil and gas company needs to build roads from scratch just to access the spill site.
‘We sincerely apologize’: Nexen’s ‘failsafe’ system didn’t detect massive northern Alberta pipeline spill
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.
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway: Now things get interesting
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.
Northern Gateway: Could the feds be any less pumped about this pipeline?
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.
Alberta regulator rejects CNRL request to steam at active spill site
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.
CNRL wants to start high-pressure steaming near active spill site
March 5, 2014 – Global News
The company whose northern Alberta spills have been oozing bitumen for 10 months nonstop has asked the province to let it start high-pressure steam operations less than a kilometre away from one of the spill areas.
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