EDMONTON - A number of people at Suncor's refinery in Edmonton were sent to hospital after a toxic gas was released at the facility. Suncor spokeswoman Erin Rees says company crews responded to a release of hydrogen sulfide at around noon on Wednesday. Rees says a number of employees and contractors were in the vicinity of the release, and were assessed by Suncor and Alberta Health Services personnel. She says a handful were sent to hospital for further assessment, but … [Read more...]
City of Burnaby issues eviction notice to protesters at Kinder Morgan terminal
BURNABY, B.C. - The City of Burnaby is evicting protesters from a make-shift camp set up outside one of Kinder Morgan's terminals, citing fire safety and public health concerns. City manager Lambert Chu says the city is worried about how the footprint of the site, dubbed Camp Cloud, has grown to include a two-level wood structure, additional tents and even shower facilities. "We've been trying to work with the camp occupants and seek compliance with no success and that's why we had to take … [Read more...]
Kinder Morgan Canada earns $13.7 million in Q2 in 45 per cent drop
CALGARY - Kinder Morgan says the $4.5 billion deal to sell Trans Mountain pipeline assets to the federal government is progressing well. "We are laser-focused right now on closing this transaction, and that process is going well," said Kinder Morgan CEO Steven Kean on an earnings call Wednesday. The company reached a deal with the Trudeau government in late May to sell the existing Trans Mountain pipeline running from the Edmonton to the Vancouver … [Read more...]
Aecon Group joint venture wins Enbridge Line 3 replacement contract
TORONTO - Aecon Group Inc. says its joint venture with Robert B. Somerville Co. Ltd. has won a $282-million contract for a work on Enbridge Inc.'s Line 3 replacement project in Manitoba. The work includes constructing 92.2 kilometres of pipeline in the area of Brandon, Man., and 96.5 km of pipeline near Morden, Man. Construction is expected to start in August and be mostly completed by the end of the year. The joint venture recently completed work on the Line 3 … [Read more...]
Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands tailings plan wins conditional AER approval
CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator has conditionally approved a tailings pond management plan for the five-year-old Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The plan is the sixth since last fall to win interim approval despite the regulator's reservations about the applicants' ability to remediate the lakes of contaminated water created in the oilsands mining process. The AER says in its Kearl decision that it has concerns with whether operator Imperial Oil Ltd.'s assumptions about its … [Read more...]
Members of Trudeau’s youth council urge cancellation of Kinder Morgan buyout
OTTAWA - Members of Justin Trudeau's youth council are urging the prime minister to withdraw his decision to buy Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Sixteen past and present members of the youth council are releasing a letter to Trudeau expressing their "disappointment" in the Liberal government's move to buy the pipeline project for $4.5 billion. The letter, signed primarily by Indigenous members, says young people supported Trudeau during the 2015 federal election because … [Read more...]
Almost every part of Canada’s largest national park deteriorating: federal study
An exhaustive federal study of Canada's largest national park concludes almost every aspect of its environment is deteriorating. The 561-page report on Wood Buffalo National Park says industry, dams, climate change and natural cycles are sucking the watery lifeblood from the vast delta of northeastern Alberta's Peace and Athabasca rivers. It was prepared after concerns were raised over the park's UNESCO World Heritage status and backs most of them up. "The … [Read more...]
‘No where to go:’ Indigenous people recount losses in Wood Buffalo National Park
An extensive report done on Wood Buffalo National Park contains testimony from Indigenous people in the area. Here are a few examples of what they said: Matthew Lepine: For birds, I have nowhere to go in fall, spring, summer for eggs ... they are gone. There are places you cannot travel at all. In some places you can smell the stale water. We still try to go to those places, hoping there is water. We get little pitiful (muskrats) now. It’s all we have left. They are hardly even edible. … [Read more...]
Indigenous activist arrested after Trans Mountain protest in B.C.
CLEARWATER, B.C. - An Indigenous political activist was briefly detained Saturday following a Trans Mountain pipeline protest in British Columbia's North Thompson Provincial Park. Kanahus Manuel, a spokesperson for the activist group Tiny House Warriors, was arrested by the RCMP after allegedly defying an eviction order from the BC Parks service that was delivered on Thursday. The group's members belong to the Secwepemc First Nation, which released a statement Saturday afternoon … [Read more...]
Pleads guilty: Nexen fined $750K for huge pipeline spill in northern Alberta
CALGARY - A Calgary energy company has pleaded guilty to federal and provincial environmental charges over one of the largest pipeline spills in Alberta history. Nexen has been ordered to pay a total of $750,000 in fines for the Long Lake spill southeast of Fort McMurray that released five million litres of bitumen, sand and produced water over an area of 16,000 square metres of lake and muskeg in 2015. "A number of landbird, shorebird, waterbird and waterfowl species protected … [Read more...]
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