CALGARY - The CEO of Enbridge said Friday he doesn't expect to meet a deadline to begin construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline this year and the Calgary-based company will likely seek an extension.Al Monaco said Enbridge is still working to satisfy the 209 conditions included in its 2014 permit to build the pipeline, as well as firm up commitments with shippers and get more community support."Our ability to begin construction before the end of the year is really quite remote at this [Read more]
Alberta Energy to discuss cyberthreats on oil and gas infrastructure
CALGARY - Alberta's energy department will be holding meetings in the coming weeks to discuss the threat of cyberattacks on oil-and-gas infrastructure — an issue that was flagged in a recent report by the province's auditor general.The report noted that the Alberta government does not require provincially regulated oil-and-gas operators to meet minimum IT security standards for the systems that control pumps, valves and other key oil-and-gas equipment. There are standards for utilities, but [Read more]
Number of EI recipients doubles in Alberta in latest sign of economic woes
CALGARY - The number of Albertans receiving employment insurance has doubled in a year, Statistics Canada said Thursday in the latest sign of the province's economic struggles driven by falling oil prices.About 62,500 people in the province were on EI in December, up from the 31,200 who were receiving jobless benefits from the same month a year earlier, the federal agency said.Sean Murray, a 42-year-old father of two preschoolers in Red Lake, Alta., says he's been applying to any job openings he [Read more]
Alberta company wants to build facility to store, service up to 850 rail cars for transportation of oil and natural gas liquids
EDMONTON - A company wants to build a facility to store and service up to 850 rail cars near Lamont, Alta., a few kilometres north of Elk Island National Park.Alberta Midland Railway Terminal Ltd. says the facility would help rail shippers that service an area called the Industrial Heartland — the province's largest hydrocarbon processing region.A report filed by the company to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency says the $34 million project could begin operating by the second-quarter [Read more]
Quebec environmental groups file court motion challenging Energy East
MONTREAL - A coalition of environmental groups is taking legal action in the hopes of subjecting the Energy East pipeline project to Quebec's environmental regulations.The group filed a court motion Thursday and argued TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., the company behind the project, has ignored repeated government requests to file a project notice with the province's Environment Department.Michel Belanger, a coalition lawyer, said an industrial project of such magnitude should not be able to bypass [Read more]
Don’t forget oil sector: Saskatchewan premier watches Ottawa on Bombardier
REGINA - Talk of federal aid to help pull Bombardier Inc. out of a nosedive has caught the attention of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and the tanking energy sector.Wall says that if the federal government is thinking about a bailout package for Bombardier, it could consider helping the oil-and-gas industry, which is struggling due to falling oil prices."We have seen tens of thousands of jobs lost in the energy sector — obviously not as many in Saskatchewan as in Alberta — but it's affecting [Read more]
Trans Mountain criticizes interveners in reply argument to National Energy Board
VANCOUVER - The company hoping to twin its pipeline between Alberta and B.C. claims some interveners broke the National Energy Board's rules when they presented oral arguments at recent hearings on the proposed expansion.Kinder Morgan has filed its written reply argument, triggering the close of the record in the often-contentious energy board proceeding into the Trans Mountain project. The board is expected to deliver a recommendation to the federal government by May.The argument is Trans [Read more]
Drilling group calls on Alberta, federal governments to show sector more respect
CALGARY - A drilling industry group is calling on the federal and Alberta governments to do more to stick up for oil and gas workers.Mark Scholz, head of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, says 100,000 people are out of work in the oil and gas industry — the equivalent of one in six.Scholz says the group isn't asking for a handout, but wants both levels of government to speak out more vocally in favour of market-opening pipelines.He adds that there's too much [Read more]
Oil tanks half-full for Alberta storage companies as sector keeps growing
CALGARY - Alberta's oil storage tanks aren't brimming with crude like their U.S. counterparts, but the business is still one of the bright spots amid the oilpatch's devastating downturn."Storage has been one of the few growing investments in midstreams since the downturn," said Steven Paget, an analyst at FirstEnergy Capital Corp.Companies like Keyera Corp. and Gibson Energy are moving ahead with big expansion projects, despite the global oil price plunge.And with long-term contracts in place, [Read more]
Alberta energy minister says petrochemical program attracting lots of interest
RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd says a program to encourage more value-added processing in the petrochemical sector is getting a lot of interest.The Petrochemicals Diversification Program was announced earlier this month and provides $500 million in royalty credits to the sector.McCuaig-Boyd was in Red Deer on Tuesday and spoke to the local chamber of commerce and toured a petrochemical plant in Joffre.She says the Joffre plant's expansion will be opened soon.The [Read more]
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