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 | 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 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 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 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, 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 | 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...
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...
