Alberta

Federal agency orders Trans Mountain to halt use of trench boxes after worker killed in Edmonton

01/11/20
Author: 
Phil Heidenreich
Link: 
Global News

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20
Author: 
James Peters
Link: 
CFJC Today
Trans Mountain expansion - File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Trans Mountain expansion may not be economically viable, says think tank report

30/10/20
Author: 
David Thurton
Link: 
CBC News
Oct 29, 2020
Workers unload pipe to start right-of-way construction for the Trans Mountain expansion project in Acheson, Alta., Dec. 3, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
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New report questions Trans Mountain expansion’s ‘Asian markets’ rationale

30/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer

October 30th 2020

A new study is questioning one of the central rationales for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — that it would allow Canada to fetch a fair price for its oil.

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Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

29/10/20
Author: 
David Hughes
Link: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
report cover - Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

Production forecasts, economics and environmental considerations

OCTOBER 29, 2020
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'Scale is important' Cenovus CEO says of massive deal for Husky

28/10/20
Author: 
Chris Varcoe
Link: 
Calgary Herald
The Bow building headquarters for Cenovus Energy was photographed on Sunday, October 25, 2020. Cenovus Energy is buying Husky Energy for $23.6 billion the companies said in a joint announcement on Sunday. PHOTO BY GAVIN YOUNG/POSTMEDIA

Oct 26, 2020 

A new wave of oilpatch consolidation has been widely expected since oil prices cratered this spring, undercutting share prices and piling debt onto Canadian petroleum producers.

Some smaller deals have unfolded this fall, but Cenovus Energy’s mammoth $3.8-billion acquisition of integrated producer Husky Energy on Sunday lit the fuse on the biggest corporate takeover in Canada’s oilpatch in several years.

And there will likely be more deals to come.

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Alberta Hospital Workers Strike Illegally Amid Pandemic

27/10/20
Author: 
Don Braid
Link: 
Calgary Herald
Healthcare workers protest during a walkout at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary on Monday, October 26, 2020. PHOTO BY GAVIN YOUNG /Postmedia

Oct 27, 2020 

But even if this unrest is quashed, the root causes aren't going away

Here is your definition of a messed-up province.

Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw describes a deepening pandemic with 1,440 new cases of coronavirus confirmed over the weekend.

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Mounties make arrests at Trans Mountain worksite in Kamloops

16/10/20
Author: 
Mchael Potestio
Link: 
Kamloops This Week
Police arrest a protester at Trans Mountain's Mission Flats worksite on Oct. 15. Photograph By FACEBOOK

Oct. 15, 2020

On Oct. 15, members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline walked across Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and onto the Trans Mountain site. There, at least one protester, a woman, sat on an excavator and called for others opposed to the pipeline expansion project to help stop the work being done.

Several people were arrested on Thursday (Oct. 15) at the Trans Mountain construction site on Mission Flats in Kamloops.

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"Several members of Secwepemc nation arrested" - Action and more

16/10/20
Author: 
Tim Kennelly
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Former TMX Pipeline Engineer and Secwepemc Hereditary Chief Arrested Today at TMX Thompson River Drill Site

15/10/20
Author: 
Anushka Azadi
Link: 
facebook.com
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