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]
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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]
Legacy Oil + Gas Inc. issues statement regarding natural gas release in Turner Valley
CALGARY, June 20, 2013 /CNW/ - Recent heavy rains and spring run-off in southern Alberta caused a flooding of the Sheep River. As a precautionary measure, Legacy was in the process of shutting in production in the Turner Valley Field when a natural gas 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 flood water. Legacy Turner Valley and head office staff are working [Read more]
MARKETS SINK: TSX gets hit, oil drops, gold plummets
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market headed deeper into the red for a second day Thursday after the U.S. central bank signaled that investors will have to get used to less economic stimulus and ultimately higher interest rates. The S&P/TSX composite index ended its worst single-day sell-off since April 15 by closing down 299.71 points or 2.44 per cent at 11,968.57. That left the TSX down 465 points or 3.75 per cent so far this year. The slide cut across all sectors as the TSX was also caught [Read more]
Huntington Announces Changes to the Board of Directors and Appointment of New Officer
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - June 20, 2013) - Huntington Exploration Inc. ("Huntington" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:HEI) announced today that Robert Verhelst, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Mr. J. Timothy Bowes have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company. In addition, Mr. Bowes has also been appointed as the Vice-President, Land and Business Development and Corporate Secretary of the Corporation. Mr. Bowes (MBA) was previously President [Read more]
Protesters disrupt work at Enbridge oil pipeline near Hamilton
HAMILTON - A small group of activists disrupted work at an Enbridge pumping station outside Hamilton Thursday to protest the company's plan to reverse the flow of oil in one of its pipelines.Enbridge spokesman Ken Hall said protesters arrived at the company's Line 9 pumping station in North Westover at 6:30 a.m., and forced the workers to shut it down.Enbridge (TSX:ENB) has already received approval by the National Energy Board to reverse the flow of oil between Sarnia, Ont., and North [Read more]
Sour gas leak forces evacuations, confines people to homes in southern Alberta
TURNER VALLEY, Alta. - A leak of potentially deadly sour gas in a southern Alberta town that also faced flooding caused evacuations and confined other residents to their homes on Thursday."The town of Turner Valley has evacuated some residents and has put others under shelter-in-place as a precautionary measure," said Cara Tobin of the Alberta Energy Regulator.About 150 people were forced to leave the town of about 2,500, said RCMP Sgt. Patricia Neely.The leak was at the south end of [Read more]