February 28, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 26, 2020) OTTAWA — The train that derailed and spilled crude oil in northwestern Ontario last week was travelling at a speed that would have been prohibited just two days earlier. The CN Rail train was heading east at 70 kilometers per hour...
February 28, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, February 27, 2020) Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada’s freight rail system faces “many, many weeks” of delays as a result of protests by and in support of indigenous groups across the country. As of this morning, just one of the...
February 27, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Kallanish Energy, February 26, 2020) NEW YORK — Canadian crude oil rail shipments grew in December 2019, according to the Canadian Energy Regulator. The federal agency said more than 10.76 million barrels (Mmbbl) of oil were shipped by rail in 2019’s...
February 25, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, February 24, 2020) NEW YORK — The derailment of two separate oil trains roughly two months apart near Guernsey, Sask., each spilling more than 300,000 gallons of crude onto the ground and one igniting into a smoldering inferno, plus the resulting...
February 24, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, February 24, 2020) TYENDINAGA — Police moved in on Monday morning to clear a rail blockade by an indigenous group in eastern Canada that had been stopping freight and passenger traffic for more than two weeks on one of the country’s busiest lines....
February 24, 2020 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, February 21, 2020) MONTREAL — A rail blockade in eastern Ontario has led to backlogs at Canada’s three biggest ports, prompting some shippers to take their business elsewhere as cargo piles up and dockworkers’ paychecks shrink....
February 13, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, February 12, 2020) WINNIPEG — A Manitoba railway just outside Winnipeg is being blocked by a group of protesters to show support for the Wet’suwet’en in British Columbia, whose hereditary leaders are fighting construction of a pipeline...
February 12, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Calgary Herald, February 12, 2020) CALGARY, Alberta — After months of delay, the Alberta government has sold off $10.6 billion worth of crude-by-rail contracts to the private sector — and Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday the cost of divesting the...
February 11, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Freight Waves, February 10, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — As the rail industry awaits the preliminary investigation findings on what caused the derailment of a Canadian Pacific crude oil train, observers also are mulling how a temporary federal mandate to slow...
February 7, 2020 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 6, 2020) TORONTO — The federal government has ordered lower speed limits for all trains carrying dangerous goods on Canada’s railway lines after a train jumped the tracks in rural Saskatchewan early Thursday morning, bursting into...
