May 8, 2023
Wildfires raging across western Canada forced the evacuation of 30,000 residents and cut at least 234,000 barrels a day of oil and gas production as companies shut down wells and pipelines. A total of 100 blazes were burning Monday afternoon, …
March 21, 2023
Canada’s federal government is stepping up environmental oversight in Alberta’s oil sands after Imperial Oil Ltd. and the provincial regulator were slow to report toxic spills. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has proposed a joint federal-provincial-Indigenous working group with the involvement …
June 20, 2022
Oil brokerage NE2 Group is hitting back at allegations that Chief Executive Officer Tim Gunn created a toxic workplace, filing an C$11 million ($8.4 million) countersuit against eight former employees who left the firm earlier this year. In court documents, …
May 20, 2022
When two-thirds of the brokers at a prominent Calgary oil firm quit without explanation around the Easter weekend, the exodus chilled Canada’s oil market. Now, a lawsuit filed against the firm, NE2 Group, purports to offer a window into life …
December 13, 2021
More than 80,000 customers in Canada’s most populous province remain without electricity after extreme winds swept through several Ontario cities on Saturday, knocking down trees, breaking utility poles and downing power lines. More than 490,000 Hydro One Ltd. customers had …
September 15, 2021
TC Energy Corp. is the latest Canadian pipeline company allowed to keep its insurers confidential as activist groups push firms to drop business with the fossil fuels industry. The Canada Energy Regulator ruled that the names of TC Energy’s insurers …
March 11, 2021
Trans Mountain Pipeline LP is petitioning to keep the insurers of its controversial Canadian oil sands pipeline confidential as environmental groups urge insurance companies to drop their coverage. The pipeline company normally discloses the insurance companies in a so-called Financial …
May 13, 2019
The Houston Ship Channel reopened to limited traffic on Sunday after a vessel collision dumped almost 400,000 gallons of a gasoline ingredient and choked suburbs of the U.S. city with noxious fumes. A U.S. Coast Guard-led response team has begun …
May 17, 2016
Wildfires raging across northern Alberta for more than two weeks have come to within a kilometer of an Enbridge Inc. oil-sands transportation terminal as warm weather and wind spread the flames, while workers were evacuated from camps north of Fort …
May 10, 2016
The massive wildfires that swept through Canada’s energy hub of Fort McMurray left almost 90 percent of the city intact, including most of the downtown core, while completely leveling some neighborhoods. “This city was surrounded by an ocean of fire …