Update: Wildfires Rage Across Canada’s Gas Heartland, Cutting Production May 8, 2023 By Robert Tuttle and Sheela Tobben Wildfires raging across western Canada forced the evacuation of 30,000 residents and cut at least 234,000 barrels a day of...
Toxic Spills at Alberta’s Oil Sands Spur Canada to Boost Regulatory Oversight March 21, 2023 By Robert Tuttle Canada’s federal government is stepping up environmental oversight in Alberta’s oil sands after Imperial Oil Ltd. and the provincial regulator...
Canadian Oil Brokerage Denies ‘Toxic’ Workplace Claim, Files Countersuit June 20, 2022 By Geoffrey Morgan, Robert Tuttle and Sheela Tobben Oil brokerage NE2 Group is hitting back at allegations that Chief Executive Officer Tim Gunn created a toxic workplace, filing...
Charges of Violence, Bullying Follow Mass Employee Exodus at Calgary Oil Firm May 20, 2022 By Robert Tuttle, Sheela Tobben and Geoffrey Morgan When two-thirds of the brokers at a prominent Calgary oil firm quit without explanation around the Easter weekend, the exodus...
Extreme Winds in Ontario Knock Down Trees, Power Lines, Cutting Electricity for 80,000 December 13, 2021 By Robert Tuttle More than 80,000 customers in Canada’s most populous province remain without electricity after extreme winds swept through several Ontario cities...
Canada Permits TC Energy to Keep Insurers Secret From Pipeline Activists September 15, 2021 By Robert Tuttle TC Energy Corp. is the latest Canadian pipeline company allowed to keep its insurers confidential as activist groups push firms...
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Wants to Keep Insurers Secret from Project Protestors March 11, 2021 By Robert Tuttle Trans Mountain Pipeline LP is petitioning to keep the insurers of its controversial Canadian oil sands pipeline confidential as environmental...
Houston Ship Channel Reopens After Collision Pollutes Air, Water May 13, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Robert Tuttle The Houston Ship Channel reopened to limited traffic on Sunday after a vessel collision dumped almost 400,000 gallons of a...
Alberta Wildfires Spread North, Threatening Oil Sands Facilities, Workers’ Camps May 17, 2016 By Robert Tuttle Wildfires raging across northern Alberta for more than two weeks have come to within a kilometer of an Enbridge Inc....
Alberta Wildfires Spare Almost 90% of Fort McMurray, Canada’s Energy Hub May 10, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva, Rebecca Penty and Robert Tuttle The massive wildfires that swept through Canada’s energy hub of Fort McMurray left almost 90 percent of the city intact,...