BURNABY, B.C. - First Nations vowed to stand in unity with protesters as police kept up arrests Friday in a Metro Vancouver conservation area where crews resumed survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.Shortly after activists announced they would do whatever it takes to stymie the project, a group began marching up Burnaby Mountain in the pouring rain.More arrests quickly followed.Charlene Aleck, a Tsleil-Waututh councillor, told a gathering of protesters at the base of [Read more]
Explosion kills 1, injures 3 on oil and gas platform in Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana coast
NEW ORLEANS - An explosion has occurred on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing one person and injuring three.The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said Fieldwood Energy reported the explosion on its Echo Platform just before 3 p.m. Thursday about 12 miles off Louisiana's coast. A telephone call to the Houston, Texas-based company was not immediately returned.The bureau said in a statement that the platform was not in production at the time of the [Read more]
Nisga’a sign pipeline benefits deal with B.C., back LNG projects
VICTORIA - The head of the Nisga'a Nation said his people are embracing the possibility of a liquefied natural gas industry by permitting energy companies to run a pipeline through the nation's territory in northwestern British Columbia, with the hope for more investment to come. The Nisga'a and B.C. Liberal government signed a benefit sharing agreement Thursday that will see the nation receive about $6 million from the province for a proposed natural gas pipeline that would pass through 97 [Read more]
Oilsands firms not at fault in deaths of 196 waterfowl in northeast Alberta
CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator says three oilsands corporations did nothing wrong when 196 birds died after landing in wastewater tailings ponds earlier this month.The regulator says Canadian Natural Resources Limited (TSX:CNQ), Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and Syncrude followed the rules that require them to use devices to scare waterfowl away from the ponds.Ryan Bartlett, a spokesman for the regulator, says the birds still managed to land on the oily water on Nov. 4 due to bad weather [Read more]
Mounties begin arrests on Burnaby Mountain to dismantle pipeline protests
BURNABY, B.C. - Anti-pipeline activists camped out on a mountain near Vancouver clashed with police Thursday, as the RCMP enforced a court injunction ordering protesters to clear an encampment and allow work related to a proposed expansion project by Kinder Morgan.Protesters had set up makeshift encampments blocking work crews from two sites on Burnaby Mountain, where Kinder Morgan has been conducting survey work related to its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The company [Read more]
TransCanada to accelerate pace of dividend growth over next few years, CEO says
CALGARY - Chances are good TransCanada will get into the rail business regardless of whether its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline is built, CEO Russ Girling said Wednesday.But how big a rail player TransCanada becomes will depend on the fate of its proposal and others, he said.For several months, TransCanada has been floating the idea of a "rail bridge" while its US$8-billion cross-border pipeline remains in regulatory limbo.TransCanada is in "active negotiations" with shippers about moving [Read more]
Keystone pipeline down, but not out after Senate vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising the new Republican majority will quickly resurrect Keystone XL pipeline legislation killed by Democrats, potentially setting up an early 2015 veto confrontation with President Barack Obama. "I look forward to the new Republican majority taking up and passing the Keystone jobs bill early in the new year," the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday, shortly after the bill fell one vote short of the 60 votes needed to [Read more]
Keystone XL bill fails in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democrat-controlled Senate has defeated a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Senate's 59-41 vote Tuesday night was a nail-biter to the end. The bill needed 60 votes to reach the White House. The House passed it overwhelmingly last week. President Barack Obama did not support the bill, but the White House has been mum on whether or not he will veto it. Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu pushed for the vote in an effort to save her seat in a Dec. 6 runoff [Read more]
Alberta Premier Prentice disappointed U.S. senate vote on Keystone XL failed
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he is disappointed the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill authorizing the immediate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.But Prentice says he is encouraged that the controversial line is gaining increased bipartisan support in the halls of the U.S. lawmakers.Prentice says he plans to travel to Washington in January, but no specific dates have been set.The Keystone bill failed by one vote, just days after the House of Representatives approved the [Read more]
Alberta RCMP say natural gas pipeline intentionally shot with high-powered rifle
HINTON, Alta. - RCMP in western Alberta are investigating the shooting of a natural gas pipeline but don't believe it was malicious.Mounties say the Talisman Energy pipeline was intentionally hit with one bullet from a high-powered rifle on the weekend.The line, located about 60 kilometres north of Hinton, leaked a large quantity of natural gas before safety devices shut it down.There was no explosion.Const. Steve Lundberg describes the shooting as isolated.He says it's common for people in the [Read more]
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