Oil spill

The auditor’s office said in 2012 that the Ministry of Energy and Resources did not have effective ways to ensure full compliance with laws for pipeline construction and operation.

The Husky oil spill in Saskatchewan may be well over 1,000 kilometres away, but for B.C. residents concerned about the Kinder Morgan expansion project, the disaster still hits close to home.

Prince Albert has been taking water from storm retention ponds, which were topped up Thursday by a rain storm.

Husky Energy submitted an altered incident report that states they detected a pipeline spill last Thursday morning, 14 hours later than they initially claimed.

It appears Husky Energy knew something was amiss with one of its oil pipelines about 14 hours before the Saskatchewan government was notified.

Prince Albert gets most of its water from the North Saskatchewan River. Officials are getting ready to shut down the intakes when oil from the leak flows past the city.

Residents of the small western city of North Battleford, Saskatchewan are being asked to cut water consumption as Husky Energy races to clean up as much as 250,000 litres of oil spilled nearby.

Ron Bailey, head of Canadian operations at Nexen, says that the company found that the explosion at the Long Lake facility was caused by staff doing work they shouldn't have been doing.

Since late 2010, there have been 108 workplace fatalities in North Dakota, including 48 that were oilfield-related.

The pipeline has spilled an estimated 380,000 litres of light petroleum.

The department pled guilty to breaching the Fisheries Act when navy staff on the HMCS St. John's accidentally leaked 9,000 litres of diesel fuel into the Halifax Harbour in May 2013.

TransCanada has restarted its Keystone pipeline at reduced operating pressure after repairing a leak that was discovered by a passerby. An estimated 64,000 litres of oil spilled onto farmland.