The National Energy Board has endorsed an expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. If approved by Ottawa, the regulator says it will impose 156 conditions on the project. It has also made 16 new recommendations for the federal government. 1. Develop a plan to assess the effects on the Salish Sea and a long-term strategy to manage those effects. 2. Release a public, annual report on the Salish Sea and any gaps in measures to address effects. 3. Develop a marine bird monitoring and [Read more]
Senator refuses to apologize for remark urging convoy ‘roll over’ Liberals
OTTAWA - Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk says he won't apologize for comments he made at a pro-pipeline rally in Ottawa, calling criticism that he was inciting violence "manufactured outrage." Tkachuk spoke Tuesday to the United We Roll convoy, which left Red Deer, Alta. on Feb. 14 and expressed a wide variety of demands, some related to the oil and gas sector. The convoy participants opposed bills that will overhaul environmental assessments of energy projects and ban oil tankers from [Read more]
Regulator’s report unlikely to settle Trans Mountain pipeline expansion battle
CALGARY - An environmental group that tried to widen the scope of the National Energy Board's reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says it fully expects the board to endorse the project again in its ruling today. "I think the NEB has a long record of siding with industry over communities and other concerns ... so we have every expectation that they're going to recommend the project go ahead despite the serious problems with it," said Sven Biggs, climate campaigner for [Read more]
‘We didn’t like it at all’: CP Rail CEO objects to Notley’s crude-by-rail deal
The head of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has voiced his displeasure at the idea of Alberta’s $3.7-billion deal with Canada’s two biggest rail companies to ship more crude via rail amid a pipeline crunch squeezing oilsands producers. “So the government steps in, we didn’t like it at all," said Keith Creel, speaking at a conference in Miami on Wednesday. The CEO was referring to Premier Rachel Notley's decision to work out a plan that aims to move up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day by [Read more]
Well completion companies report sharp slowdown in fourth-quarter activity
CALGARY - Companies whose services are needed for hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" of oil and gas wells are reporting tough times thanks to a slowdown in drilling in Western Canada in the fourth quarter. Shares in both Trican Well Service Ltd. and Source Energy Services Ltd. trended lower Thursday after the Calgary-based companies reported lower sales in the last three months of 2018. Fracking involves injecting water, sand and chemicals under high pressure to crack tight rock formations [Read more]
Shrunken protest convoy leaves Ottawa after second day, enjoying Tory support
OTTAWA - A diminished version of the United We Roll convoy left Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, words of support from one more Conservative MP trailing behind. "Listen, we stand together united as a country," Lethbridge MP Rachael Harder told the crowd. "This is about developing an energy industry that keeps us alive and gives us a place on the world stage." It was also about other things. Members of the convoy, which left Red Deer, Alta., on Feb. 14, expressed a wide variety of demands. [Read more]
Attempted theft at oilfield site ends in leak of crude oil effluent: RCMP
VERMILION, Alta. - RCMP say an attempted theft at an oilfield site in east-central Alberta resulted in a leak of crude oil effluent. Mounties say someone trying to steal copper wire at the site near Vermilion on Friday night caused extensive damage to the electrical wiring which in turn allowed the effluent to be released. They say the spill was contained on the site and is being cleaned up. Damages are estimated at between $250,000 and $300,000. Witnesses in the area report seeing [Read more]
CEOS for Royal Bank, Enbridge, call for better balance in energy policies
TORONTO - The CEOs of Canada's largest bank and its largest pipeline company say the country needs an energy strategy that will better balance environmental and Indigenous goals with the need to develop its abundant oil and gas resources. But Royal Bank CEO Dave McKay and Al Monaco, CEO of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc., had little in the way of specific advice for government during a Canadian Club event in Toronto. Over a 45-minute discussion, the two agreed the world has a growing thirst [Read more]
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says he would shelve oil-by-rail deal
EDMONTON - Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says if he wins the spring election, his government will do everything it can to cancel a $3.7-billion deal to ship more oil by rail. Kenney is urging Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway not to invest too much in the agreement given that it could be shelved. Premier Rachel Notley announced on Tuesday that the province plans to lease 4,400 rail cars to get more oil to foreign markets while the government works to increase [Read more]
Crude-by-rail shipments set new record in December despite lower price discounts
CALGARY - The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada reached a record high in December. Canada exported nearly 354,000 barrels per day of oil, up seven per cent from November's total of 330,400 bpd and the 152,000 bpd moved in December 2017. On Tuesday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced the province will invest $3.7 billion to move up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day by rail by 2020 under deals with Canada's two major railways. Initial daily shipments of [Read more]
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