Articles by Geoffrey Morgan, Robert Tuttle and Sheela Tobben

Canadian Oil Brokerage Denies ‘Toxic’ Workplace Claim, Files Countersuit

Oil brokerage NE2 Group is hitting back at allegations that Chief Executive Officer Tim Gunn created a toxic workplace, filing an C$11 million ($8.4 million) countersuit against eight former employees who left the firm earlier this year. In court documents, …

Charges of Violence, Bullying Follow Mass Employee Exodus at Calgary Oil Firm

When two-thirds of the brokers at a prominent Calgary oil firm quit without explanation around the Easter weekend, the exodus chilled Canada’s oil market. Now, a lawsuit filed against the firm, NE2 Group, purports to offer a window into life …

Extreme Winds in Ontario Knock Down Trees, Power Lines, Cutting Electricity for 80,000

More than 80,000 customers in Canada’s most populous province remain without electricity after extreme winds swept through several Ontario cities on Saturday, knocking down trees, breaking utility poles and downing power lines. More than 490,000 Hydro One Ltd. customers had …

Canada Permits TC Energy to Keep Insurers Secret From Pipeline Activists

TC Energy Corp. is the latest Canadian pipeline company allowed to keep its insurers confidential as activist groups push firms to drop business with the fossil fuels industry. The Canada Energy Regulator ruled that the names of TC Energy’s insurers …

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Wants to Keep Insurers Secret from Project Protestors

Trans Mountain Pipeline LP is petitioning to keep the insurers of its controversial Canadian oil sands pipeline confidential as environmental groups urge insurance companies to drop their coverage. The pipeline company normally discloses the insurance companies in a so-called Financial …

Houston Ship Channel Reopens After Collision Pollutes Air, Water

The Houston Ship Channel reopened to limited traffic on Sunday after a vessel collision dumped almost 400,000 gallons of a gasoline ingredient and choked suburbs of the U.S. city with noxious fumes. A U.S. Coast Guard-led response team has begun …

Alberta Wildfires Spread North, Threatening Oil Sands Facilities, Workers’ Camps

Wildfires raging across northern Alberta for more than two weeks have come to within a kilometer of an Enbridge Inc. oil-sands transportation terminal as warm weather and wind spread the flames, while workers were evacuated from camps north of Fort …

Alberta Wildfires Spare Almost 90% of Fort McMurray, Canada’s Energy Hub

The massive wildfires that swept through Canada’s energy hub of Fort McMurray left almost 90 percent of the city intact, including most of the downtown core, while completely leveling some neighborhoods. “This city was surrounded by an ocean of fire …

Alberta Wildfires Set to Veer from Oil Sands Operations, Spreading More Slowly

Wildfires raging through Alberta are set to move away from the main oil-sands facilities north of Fort McMurray after knocking out an estimated 1 million barrels of production from Canada’s energy hub. A cold front scheduled to pass through the …

Alberta Wildfire Insured Losses Could Total $7.3B, Covering Area Bigger Than NYC

The wildfires ravaging Canada’s oil hub in northern Alberta have rapidly spread to an area bigger than New York city, prompting the air lift of more than 8,000 evacuees as firefighters seek to salvage critical infrastructure. The inferno around Fort …