February 20, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 19, 2020) OTTAWA — A federal order for trains carrying dangerous goods to slow down after two fiery crashes near Guernsey, Sask., has been further revised by Transport Minister Marc Garneau. Garneau’s updated ministerial order,...
February 14, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 14, 2020) CALGARY — The pipeline pitches came almost instantly last week. So did the conspiracy theories. A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailment near Guernsey, Sask. — the second to happen in two months near the small hamlet — leaked...
February 13, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 13, 2020) SASKATOON, Sask. — Transport Canada says the section of Canadian Pacific Railway track marked by two recent oil train derailments was inspected by regulators three times in the last year. But it won’t say what kind of...
February 12, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 11, 2020) SASKATOON, Sask. — The Saskatchewan government says an estimated 1.2 million liters of oil leaked from a Canadian Pacific Railway train that derailed near the hamlet of Guernsey last week. That’s less than the estimated 1.5...
February 12, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: GlobalNews.ca, February 11, 2020) GUERNSEY, Sask. — The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada says it is too early to speculate what caused a fiery derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train near Guernsey, Sask. The TSB said Monday that four...
February 10, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 9, 2020) CALGARY — The Canadian Pacific Railway train that derailed, leaked crude oil and ignited a large fire in rural Saskatchewan Thursday was using new, industry-standard tank cars meant to be more puncture-resistant than their...
February 10, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, February 7, 2020) MONTREAL — The federal government’s order to reduce train speeds as a safety measure following a fiery derailment in Saskatchewan will mean longer hours for rail workers, a union representative says. Transport Minister Marc...
February 10, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 7, 2020) SASKATOON, Sask. — The images were strikingly familiar: A dark stretch of rural Saskatchewan land, a fiery blaze and thick smoke billowing from train cars gone topsy-turvy. Thursday’s early-morning train derailment two...
February 7, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Saskatoon Star Phoenix, February 7, 2020) GUERNSEY, Sask. — It is “way too early” to know the cause of the second fiery train derailment in two months near the Saskatchewan community of Guernsey, says the head of the province’s safety agency. A train carrying...
February 7, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, February 6, 2020) NEW YORK — Early in the morning of February 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village’s evacuation. This is the second oil train to derail and burn near...
