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Seven Generations Energy Ltd. acquires 56 sections of additional Montney lands

CALGARY, June 21, 2013 /CNW/ - Seven Generations Energy Ltd. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has, by several separate transactions this month, acquired 56 square miles of rights in the Montney (and other) formations in the Grande Prairie region of west central Alberta. The land will extend the Company's Kakwa River Project and brings the net land holdings of the Company (all in the Kakwa River Project area) to approximately 357 sections, including approximately 331 sections of [Read more]

Legacy Oil + Gas Inc. issues statement regarding successful shut down of natural gas well in Turner Valley

CALGARY, June 21, 2013 /CNW/ - With the receding floodwaters, Legacy Oil + Gas Inc. ("Legacy") has been able to get its emergency personnel at the well site and has confirmation that it has shut down the well releasing natural gas in the Turner Valley Field.  The well, Royalite 19, located at 5-6-20-2W5M in the southwest corner of the town of Turner Valley, had a flow line rupture due to impacts from trees and other debris in the rising floodwater. Due to the rupture, a release of natural gas [Read more]

Saddledome flooded 14 ROWS DEEP

  CALGARY - The City of Calgary says the home rink of the Calgary Flames has flooded and the water inside is 14 rows deep. The 19,000-seat Saddledome is one of the feature buildings on the Calgary Stampede grounds. Officials say there is little that can be done to pump the water out of the building because there is simply too much inside. The Stampede, the city's premiere summer event, is scheduled to start July 5. [Read more]

Police say stay out of downtown Calgary as 100,000 evacuated due to flooding

  By Bill Graveland Downtown Calgary could look like a bit of a ghost town today, with entire neighbourhoods shut down and office workers told to stay home due to massive flooding. As rain-swollen rivers burst their banks across southern Alberta on Thursday, more than a dozen towns declared states of emergency, with entire communities including High River and Bragg Creek under mandatory evacuation orders. The impact was felt as far afield as British Columbia, where roads in the [Read more]

Mayor says worst yet to come as large swaths of Calgary become watery ghost town

  CALGARY - Calgary's mayor is warning that the worst of the flooding is yet to come after a significant portion of his city's population spent the night pulling back to higher ground. "I grew up here. I spent a lot of time on the Bow and Elbow Rivers and I have never seen the river that high or that fast," Naheed Nenshi said at a news conference early Friday morning. Heavy rains eight years ago caused flood damage to about 40,000 Calgary homes and resulted in the evacuation of [Read more]

CALGARY FLOODS, UP TO 100,000 AT RISK

Officials with the City of Calgary say as many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes due to heavy flooding. They say the evacuation would take place in stages over the next few days. Residents of six low-lying areas are already out of their homes. Torrential rains have created havoc in southern Alberta from Banff and Canmore and Crowsnest Pass in the Rockies, to Calgary and beyond in the north and south to Lethbridge. The flooding was particularly destructive in communities just [Read more]

Workers stop flow of dangerous sour gas from rupture in watery southern Alberta

  TURNER VALLEY, Alta. - Workers have stopped the flow of potentially deadly sour gas in a ruptured pipeline in southern Alberta, but residents of nearby Turner Valley are being asked to stay in their homes.Cara Tobin of the Alberta Energy Regulator says the well feeding the line has been shut off, but crews can't get in to seal off the rupture.That part of the pipeline is under water due to extreme flooding.She says Calgary-based Legacy Oil and Gas, the pipeline's owner, and the fire [Read more]