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...
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...
Zurich Insurance Decides Not to Renew Cover for Canada’s Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline July 23, 2020 Insurer Zurich has decided not to renew cover for the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline, said a spokeswoman for...
Insurers Zurich and Chubb Raise Cover for Canada Oil Sands Pipeline: Filings May 13, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn, Simon Jessop and Noor Zainab Hussain Major insurers Zurich and Chubb increased their insurance cover for a Canadian oil sands pipeline over the last year, Canadian...
Insurers Pressured to Drop Coverage of Canada’s Oil Sands Pipeline August 8, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to...
Canada’s Oil Sands Facilities Prepare to Restart as Wildfires Begin to Slow May 25, 2016 By Rebecca Penty and Jessica Summers All of the Canadian oil-sands facilities that workers fled last week as a wildfire spread are being allowed to prepare...
Alberta Wildfires Could Cost $7B with Minimal Insurer Credit Hit: Ratings Agencies May 17, 2016 By L.S. Howard The Fort McMurray wildfires, which have been raging through northern Alberta, Canada since May 1, are likely to be the...
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,...
Alberta Wildfires Could Hit Canada Economy Harder than Hurricane Katrina in US May 10, 2016 By Emma Orr Intact Financial Corp. may post insured losses of as much as C$1.1 billion ($850 million) from the wildfires in Alberta,...