Dec. 20, 2013 – Global News
Some time in the next six months, Ottawa will probably give Northern Gateway the go-ahead.
And that’s where it runs into trouble.
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Five months (and counting) into CNRL spill, questions of why more wasn’t done after 2009 leak
Sept. 27, 2013 – Global News
A series of spills in northern Alberta is still oozing bitumen more than five months after the leaks began. And with no end in sight, Alberta’s Environment Ministry has taken what it says is an unprecedented step, asking Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to partially drain an oil-soaked water body before it freezes this winter and traps a bitumen gash underneath it.
Alberta pipeline safety: Watching the watchers who watch pipeline-watchers
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes has been getting a rough ride lately over his pipeline safety review.
Commissioned in July, 2012, completed in December and made public the following August, the 54-page report compared Alberta’s pipeline regulations to those of other jurisdictions. Turns out they stack up well.
It did not, however, look at whether those rules are being followed and enforced.
Nor did it look at any actual pipeline incidents.
Months after Primrose spill began, CNRL doesn’t know when it will stop
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young – Global News
Thousands of barrels of bitumen have been oozing to the surface of a remote operation for months and the oil giant responsible doesn’t know when it’s going to stop.
Transcanada wants to build a $12-billion pipeline east. What are its chances?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
TransCanada wants to go forward with a $12-billion plan to build a 4,400-kilometre pipeline trekking oil from Alberta to New Brunswick.
Railway owners in Lac Megantic explosion had brakes fail before
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.
Lac Megantic: How safe is transporting oil by rail?
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.
Interview: Natural Resources Minister talks pipeline safety
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.
Feds aim to calm public fears over pipeline safety
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.
Alberta sour gas leak continues as extreme flooding prevents shutdown
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.
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