April 30, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Canada, April 27, 2018) VICTORIA, B.C. — In the weeks since Kinder Morgan’s announcement that it was suspending all “non-essential spending” on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline, we’ve seen yet another round of concerns about a spike in the shipping...
April 25, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, April 23, 2018) WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred...
April 16, 2018 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, April 13, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A proposed law that would increase ownership limits in Canadian railways and airlines has run into a delay as politicians wrangle over what new powers companies should have. Full story:...
February 23, 2018 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, February 21, 2018) NEW YORK — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released its preliminary transportation occurrence statistics for 2017. Total railway incidents were up, but still in line with five-year averages. Full story: Railway...
February 21, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 20, 2018) MONTREAL — New Brunswick Southern Railway postponed entering pleas Tuesday on 24 charges of violating the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. Prosecutors say the charges arose from a Transport Canada investigation that was...
February 20, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 16, 2018) MONTREAL — Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) will not appeal the not-guilty verdicts reached by the jury in the trial of three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic rail workers for their role in the...
February 15, 2018 | Canada, CP, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, February 15, 2018) NEW YORK — A shortage of rail cars in Canada is leaving grain and oil shipments stranded on the Prairies, sending crude prices plummeting and leaving farmers in a cash crunch. Full story: Bloomberg
February 9, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI), the national, nonprofit rail safety education group, today reported that messages about crossing safety and trespass prevention reached millions of...
February 6, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, February 6, 2018) NEW YORK — Six former employees, including the chief executive of the defunct Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday in connection with the deadly derailment that killed 47 and...
January 26, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Medicine Hat News opinion column by Collin Gallant, January 25, 2018) MEDICINE HAT, Alberta — The acquittal of three railway workers last week on charges of negligence causing 47 deaths in the Lac Mégantic tragedy may be contradictory on its surface. They...
