The Real Dirt on Dirt: Ontario construction groups launch video series on excess soil management
Ontario's robust construction market generates almost 26 million cubic metres of excess construction soil every year – enough dirt to fill Toronto's Rogers Centre 16 times.
How Indigenous-led environmental assessments could ease resource, pipeline gridlock
The Narwhal: Hans Matthews spent much of 2012 criss-crossing Alberta and B.C. as a member of the federal-provincial panel conducting hearings on the contentious Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.
These seven contractors will build the Trans Mountain Expansion
JWN: Momentum is building for construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, with Kinder Morgan Canada releasing the final list of its major contractors.
Canada’s oilpatch fears delays as U.S. judge orders further review of Keystone XL
JWN: CALGARY — Potential delays in the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline following a U.S. judge's order mean that Western Canadian oil producers could suffer current price discounts for a longer period of time, an industry spokesman says.
Inter Pipeline spending $82M on ‘important’ infrastructure addition in East Shale Duvernay
JWN: In another sign that activity is on the rise in Alberta’s East Duvernay Shale Play, Inter Pipeline has announced a new $82 million investment in area infrastructure.
Price environmental risks like carbon: Ecofiscal Commission
JWN: When it comes to responding to industrial environmental accidents like train derailments and oil spills, there is a tendency within government to respond with tougher and potentially overly prescriptive regulations.
Discussion paper provides a first look at revitalized environmental assessment in BC
EcoLog: by Mark Sabourin... A new environmental assessment process in British Columbia (B.C.) will ensure a far greater role for First Nations in project approval, open up new avenues for public participation and promise a clear and predictable process for project proponents.
BC Hydro awards Site C transmission line contract
Allteck Line Contractors has been awarded a $113-million contract to build the Site C transmission line, BC Hydro announced Wednesday.
Husky planning new Saskatchewan oil pipeline to replace one that leaked in 2016
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Husky Energy held an open house Wednesday in Prince Albert to discuss a proposal to build new pipelines to replace a line that leaked in 2016, causing an oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River.
Solar surpasses gas and wind as biggest source of new U.S. power
Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of electricity in the first quarter.
