Canadian Wildfires Shutter Sawmills, Drive Up Lumber Prices June 13, 2023 By Rod Nickel Canada’s worst-ever spring wildfire season has forced its forestry industry to shutter sawmills, driving up lumber prices and setting production...
Keystone Pipeline Spill Cleanup Gets Complicated Due to Diluted Bitumen December 16, 2022 By Rod Nickel and Mrinalika Roy The oil spilled from TC Energy Corp.’s ruptured Keystone pipeline was diluted bitumen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said...
Keystone Oil Spill Cleanup Expected to Last Weeks December 15, 2022 By Rod Nickel Cleanup of the biggest U.S. oil spill in nearly a decade will take at least weeks more, local officials in...
Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety April 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10...
Canada Expands Credit Insurance for Canola Exporters as China Dispute Continues June 14, 2019 By Kelsey Johnson and Rod Nickel Ottawa increased the insurance coverage available for canola exporters, a government corporation said on Thursday, as it seeks to reduce...
Aging Oil Pipelines Operated by Canada’s Enbridge Raise Fears over Great Lakes Spills June 10, 2019 By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams Fears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging U.S. pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future...
Rescuers Continue to Search Florida Towns Demolished by Hurricane Michael October 15, 2018 By Rod Nickel Dozens of people remained missing on Sunday in Florida Panhandle communities reduced to ruins by Hurricane Michael as rescuers said...
Michael Leaves Path Of Destruction Through Florida Panhandle October 11, 2018 By Rod Nickel Hurricane Michael’s assault on the Florida Panhandle left nothing more than empty foundations and heaps of rubble in some parts...
After Battering Florida, Hurricane Michael Heads for Georgia, Carolinas October 11, 2018 By Rod Nickel Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland, headed northeast on Thursday, weakened but still...
Sunday Update: Weakened Tropical Storm Nate Brings Rain, Tornado Warnings to South October 7, 2017 By Rod Nickel and Jessica Resnick-Ault Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing...