In the past three years, human errors — which covers everything from failing to follow procedures to using equipment improperly — has caused an average of 20 pipeline leaks per year.
Reading Andrew Nikiforuk's Slick Water will make you sadder and wiser with an understanding of how governments and Big Oil and Gas have sung from the same hymn book, writes Warren Bell.
An Alberta First Nation says court documents suggest political and industry pressure hustled approvals for an oilsands pipeline through regulators and reduced aboriginal consultation.
The Alberta Energy Regulator has introduced new rules that it says will ultimately remove unsightly and toxic tailings ponds from the oilsands mining region of northeastern Alberta.
Excessive steaming contributed to more than a million litres of oily water to oozing to the surface at an eastern Alberta oilsands site nearly three years ago, a provincial investigation concluded