March 7, 2019 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, March 6, 2019) OTTAWA — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the number of railway accidents increased by seven per cent last year including those involving dangerous goods, but there were fewer fatalities. There were 1,170...
February 21, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 20, 2019) CALGARY — The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada reached a record high in December. Canada exported nearly 354,000 barrels per day of oil, up seven per cent from November’s total of 330,400...
February 15, 2019 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, February 14, 2019) VANCOUVER — The federal government, CN Rail and the body that oversees trade through Canada’s busiest port have signed an agreement allowing CN to twin part of an existing railway track to move more cargo and increase trade...
February 11, 2019 | Canada, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Winnipeg Free Press, February 8, 2019) OTTAWA — Transport Canada had no clue what items American freight trains were carrying into Winnipeg, Vancouver and Montreal for months last year, the Free Press has learned. An October 2018 memo marked...
February 8, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Global News, February 8, 2019) VANCOUVER — The B.C. government is chipping in more cash for a study of a potential high-speed rail corridor linking Vancouver to Seattle and possibly beyond. Premier John Horgan announced Thursday that the province will be...
February 1, 2019 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, February 1, 2019) OTTAWA — As of Feb. 1, Go Train drivers in southern Ontario are forbidden from ever consuming cannabis, but that’s not the case for their northern Ontario counterparts. However, a union leader representing workers at CP, CN...
January 31, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, January 30, 2019) OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada’s Parliament passed a motion Wednesday saying Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster in the post-apocalyptic survival film “Bird...
January 29, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canada’s National Observer, January 28, 2019) OTTAWA — A rail disaster like the Lac-Mégantic tragedy in 2013 could happen again, according to author Bruce Campbell. There are still many safety risks in transporting oil by rail, Campbell said in an interview...
January 29, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, January 24, 2019) NEW YORK — Heavy Canadian crude isn’t getting any cheaper — but that hasn’t stopped companies from splurging on costly rail shipments. Rail-car loadings hit a record 356,000 barrels a day in the week ended Jan. 11, up from a...
January 28, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: www.cbc.ca, January 25, 2019) CALGARY — In late November, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced that within “a few weeks” her government would unveil its plan to buy thousands of railcars to help transport the province’s oil to market....
