Tag: Saskatchewan
Husky oil spill reaches Prince Albert, officials scramble to secure water source
Husky oil spill reached PA sooner than expected, City officials disappointed with lack of communication An oil leak from a Husky Energy Inc pipeline into a major Canadian river has forced a second city in the province of Saskatchewan to stop drawing drinking water, officials said on Monday, widening the impact and cost of the spill. […]
At least 40 percent of Husky oil spill recovered -officials
Husky oil spill dumped 1,572 barrels into North Saskatchewan River By Ethan Lou July 24 (Reuters) – Authorities have recovered at least 40 percent of the 1,572 barrels of oil that leaked into a major western Canadian river, but the spill is still moving downstream and threatening the drinking water of riverside communities, officials said […]
Canadian authorities seek to contain oil spill moving down North Saskatchewan River
Working on plan for water security for communities farther along river, including Prince Albert, city of 35,000 By Ethan Lou (Reuters) – Authorities are building a new containment boom to fight an oil spill in a major western Canadian river, officials said on Saturday, after the spill breached a previous barrier and threatened the drinking water […]
Husky Energy works to clean up oil spilled into North Saskatchewan River
Husky Energy east of Lloydminster By Rod Nickel and Julie Gordon July 22 (Reuters) – Husky Energy Inc crews on Friday worked to clean up an oil spill into a major western Canadian river, the company said, with efforts focused on ensuring it does not contaminate the drinking water of communities downstream. The company said […]
Helium production eyed in Canada as U.S. reserve shrinks
Helium production upswing in Alberta, Saskatchewan By Rod Nickel MANKOTA, Saskatchewan, June 30 (Reuters) – An approaching squeeze in U.S. helium supplies has producers of the gas, used in everything from party balloons to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, looking north to Canada’s wheat fields. Almost three quarters of U.S. helium demand is filled by an underground […]
Quebec has right to review Energy East, but is this BC all over again?
Alberta, Saskatchewan must be wary that Quebec review doesn’t become basis to oppose Energy East in future Canadian constitutional scholars says Quebec has the legal right to review Energy East, but the politics are starting to look suspiciously like British Columbia’s opposition to West Coast pipeline projects. Margot Young of the UBC law school says that […]
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