October 31, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, October 29, 2018) CALGARY — Steep oil price discounts costing Alberta producers and the provincial government millions of dollars each day in lost revenue could be eased if the industry is given a temporary royalty holiday in return for...
September 20, 2018 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, September 19, 2018) THOMPSON, Man. — A Transportation Safety Board investigator says beavers may have contributed to the train derailment in northern Manitoba that left one railway worker dead and another injured. Full story:...
September 20, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, September 20, 2018) NEW YORK — Transport Canada on Sept. 19 issued Protective Direction 39, which accelerates phase-out of non-jacketed (no thermal layer of protection) CPC-1232 tank cars for crude oil service as of Nov. 1, 2018, 17 months...
August 9, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, August 8, 2018) CALGARY — The price gap between the Canadian oilsands benchmark and the more widely used American one has risen to its widest level in more than five years. Full story: www.cbc.ca
August 1, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: JWN Energy, July 30, 2018) CALGARY — Canadian crude oil on the rails surged to a new record for the second month in a row in May, according to new data from the National Energy Board (NEB). Operators transported 198,788 bbls/d by rail in May, the NEB said,...
July 31, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Calgary Herald, July 31, 2018) CALGARY — Canadian oil exports moving by train have set another record and the trend won’t be derailed anytime soon — until additional pipelines are built. New National Energy Board figures show 199,000 barrels of oil were...
July 31, 2018 | Canada, CP, Headlines
(Source: StarMetro Vancouver, July 30, 2018) VANCOUVER, B.C. — A longtime Canadian Pacific Railway engineer in Revelstoke, B.C., said he’s concerned but not surprised that a CP manager was found guilty of ordering a train with potentially explosive freight to be left...
July 27, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, July 26, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada’s improved pipeline picture may be a boon to the nation’s oil patch in a few years, but that expected good fortune is hurting efforts to move more crude in the near term. That’s because the increased...
July 18, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, July 11, 2018) NEW YORK — In the five years since the oil train disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, claimed 47 lives, the world has learned much about the risks that hauling oil by rail poses. One of the clearest lessons is how little has been done...
July 9, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, July 7, 2018) LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — A commemorative church service was held in Lac-Megantic on Friday to mark the five-year-anniversary of the train derailment that killed 47 people and destroyed part of downtown. Church bells rang out later...
