Second spill in as many weeks shuts Kinder Morgan pipeline
Dene Moore, The Canadian Press; With File From Mike Hager, Vancouver Sun, June 28, 2013Forces closure of only route linking Alberta oilfields and coastAs one Kinder Morgan crew worked on stemming an...
View ArticleLac-Megantic, Quebec: Train carrying crude oil derails, explodes
Canadian Press, Montreal Gazette, July 6 2013MONTREAL - By mid-morning Saturday, 10 hours after a train derailment set off a series of explosions, firefighters still could not get near the centre of...
View ArticleQuebec town rocked by explosions, fire after derailment
CBC News, July 6 2013Train derailment in Lac-Mégantic forces 1,000 from homes as several reported missingread more
View ArticleGulf oil spill: Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying evidence
Reuters, Guardian.uk, July 26 2013Contractor to plead guilty over deleted computer simulations testing methods used to cement Deepwater Horizon wellHalliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying...
View ArticleFuel truck spill into B.C. creek sparks evacuation order for 800 people
Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, Jul 27 2013WINLAW, B.C. — Officials in British Columbia’s Central Kootenay region have issued an evacuation order affecting about 800 people after a tanker truck...
View Article1,500 Kootenays' residents ordered to evacuate after oil spill in Slocan Valley
Zoe McKnight, Vancouver Sun July 27, 2013Tanker was carrying 35,000 litres of jet fuel to helicopters working on the Perry Ridge fireA state of emergency has been declared after a tanker truck...
View ArticleExxon Knew Its Ruptured Pipeline Was Old, Defective and Brittle, and Still...
Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News, Aug 12, 2013Industry experts say vulnerable pipelines like the one that failed in Arkansas can operate safely—but only if they're carefully monitored and...
View ArticleOfficial Price of the Enbridge Kalamazoo Spill, A Whopping $1,039,000,000
Desmog Canada, 26 Aug 2013The largest onshore oil spill in US history - Enbridge's ruptured Line 6B that released nearly 3 million liters of tar sands diluted bitumen into a tributary of the Kalamazoo...
View ArticleOil spill preparedness changes need broader consultation, says NDP
Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, August 26, 2013Relying on industry for advice is akin to ‘fox in charge of hen house’read more
View Article‘Fireball’ streaks across Yellowhead after train derailment, explosion west...
Edmonton Journal, The Canadian Press, October 19, 2013GAINFORD, Alta. - Emergency crews are monitoring a massive fire burning after a tanker train carrying oil and gas derailed west of Edmonton...
View ArticleThe deadly secret behind the Lac-Mégantic inferno
Jacquie McNish & Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail, Dec 3 2013The deadly secret behind the Lac-Mégantic infernoAn investigation into the disaster and its causes.read more
View ArticleInside the oil-shipping free-for-all that brought disaster to Lac-Mégantic
Grant Robertson & Jacquie McNish, Globe and Mail, Dec 2 2013An investigation into the disaster and its causes.read more
View ArticleMore massive tar mats from BP oil spill discovered on Louisiana beaches
Bob Marshall, The Lens (New Orleans), Dec 18, 2013The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was just a month old and BP’s crude oil was still gushing from the Gulf floor when state officials began to grasp...
View ArticleNew Brunswick: Latest derailment and fire fans safety concerns posed by...
Jim Bronskill, Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press, The Star, Jan 08 2014What is being called a controlled burn had been raging for more than 18 hours in northwestern New Brunswick late Wednesday after...
View ArticleMore oil spilled from trains in 2013 than in previous 4 decades, federal data...
Curtis Tate, Bellingham Herald, McClatchy Washington Bureau, January 20, 2014WASHINGTON — More crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents last year than was spilled in the nearly four decades since...
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