HOUSTON, B.C. - Dozens of rallies are planned in British Columbia, across Canada and as far away as Europe to support pipeline protesters arrested in northwestern B.C. Fourteen people were taken into custody Monday at a blockade southwest of Houston, B.C., where members of the Gidimt'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation had set up a camp to control access to a pipeline project across their territory. An RCMP statement says the arrests came after officers realized a resolution was [Read more]
RCMP arrest 14 people in northern B.C. over anti-LNG pipeline protest
HOUSTON, B.C. - RCMP say they arrested 14 people from a blockade to a forest service road in northern British Columbia that is preventing access to a pipeline project. Mounties say the arrests took place at the Gitdumt'en checkpoint on Morice West Forest Service Road for various offences, including alleged violations of an injunction order against the blockade. They allege officers saw a number of fires being lit along the roadway. Members of the Gidimt'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en First [Read more]
Suncor Energy reports production hits quarterly record in fourth quarter
CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. says its upstream production in the last three months of 2018 hit a quarterly record. Canada's largest integrated oil and gas company says production averaged 831,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up 12 per cent from the third quarter. Oilsands operations produced approximately 433,000 barrels per day in the quarter, while total production from exploration and production was 90,000 boe/d. In its outlook, Suncor maintained its December [Read more]
B.C. Indigenous group anticipating RCMP action at anti-LNG pipeline camp
Supporters of an Indigenous camp blocking access to a planned pipeline in northern British Columbia say they are anticipating RCMP action over an injunction filed against them. Jennifer Wickham, a member of the Gidimt'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, says police have gathered in Smithers, B.C., and Houston, B.C., which are the closest towns to the Gidimt'en checkpoint. TransCanada has said it has signed agreements with all First Nations along the pipeline route to LNG [Read more]
Canada’s two major railways well-poised for trade headwinds in 2019: analysts
MONTREAL - Canada's two major railways are well-positioned to weather potential economic headwinds and the U.S.-China trade war, analysts say, as ongoing investments in new cars and track bolster crude-by-rail and commodities shipments. Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. shipped 23 per cent more oil and petroleum in 2018 to drive a four per cent increase in total freight traffic, according to the Association of American Railways. Crude-by-rail exports have [Read more]
Plunging Calgary office values linked to high oil and gas unemployment rate
CALGARY - A 32 per cent decline in Calgary's downtown office building property assessment this year will likely translate into lower costs for some tenants, but don't expect much improvement in the vacancy rate, according to a commercial realtor. Lower property taxes will bring rents down and could attract more tenants to the downtown area, said Greg Kwong, Alberta managing director for realtor CBRE. But he added companies will have to start replacing the thousands of oil and gas industry [Read more]
B.C. fuel up 4 cents, more hikes due as ‘bumpy’ year looms at pumps: expert
VANCOUVER - Extreme volatility in oil markets has resulted in a price jump for gasoline of four cents a litre in Metro Vancouver and an analyst predicts a further hike could arrive within days. Dan McTeague, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, says Vancouver residents will be the "poster children" for what he expects will be a wild year for gas prices Canada-wide. He says the four-cent increase is the culmination of a series of events, including the explosion of the Enbridge [Read more]
Black plume over Edmonton, but no hazard from refinery flare: government
EDMONTON - Alberta Environment says a 12-hour refinery flare that left a black plume visible for kilometres over Edmonton's eastern skyline didn't create a public health hazard. Spokesman Jamie Hanlon says monitoring equipment registered no changes in air quality as the flare stack from Imperial Oil's Strathcona refinery shot flame and smoke into the atmosphere last Friday. Imperial spokesman Jon Harding says flaring began shortly before noon and lasted until almost midnight. [Read more]
Western Canada oil prices remain strong as Alberta production cutbacks kick in
CALGARY - Crude oil prices in Western Canada remained elevated on Wednesday, the day after provincially mandated oil production curtailments came into force, but a government spokesman says it's too early to say how long the program will remain in place. The difference between Western Canadian Select bitumen-blend heavy oil and New York-traded West Texas Intermediate oil prices was about US$12.50 per barrel on Wednesday afternoon, according to Calgary oil brokerage Net Energy, an improvement [Read more]
Syncrude to pay over $2.7M to settle charges in Alberta blue heron deaths
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Syncrude has pleaded guilty and been fined more than $2.7 million in the deaths of 31 great blue herons at one of its oilsands mines north of Fort McMurray. An agreed statement of facts says Syncrude has admitted that an abandoned sump pond in which the birds were found didn't have deterrents to keep waterfowl from landing on it, even though the pond met criteria for being high risk. "For a three-month period between May and August of 2015, the external sump met the [Read more]
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