Canada's crude oil reserves are the third-highest on Earth.
crude oil transport
September 25, 2019
10:53AM
Over decades of moving oil-by-tanker, B.C. has never had a tanker spill offshore.
September 13, 2019
11:22AM
The Trudeau government declined to provide evidence or challenge the law suits.
May 21, 2019
3:10PM
A spill of more than 10,000 tonnes is likely to occur once every 242 years.
February 22, 2019
10:23AM
Canada already exports more refined products than we import.
November 7, 2018
11:29AM
Truck transport costs US$20 per barrel—four times more expensive than pipelines.
October 3, 2018
8:21AM
Canadian oil producers will lose an estimated $15.8 billion this year in foregone revenues compared to other producers.
August 30, 2018
2:12PM
Pipelines are 2.5 times safer than rail transport.
February 14, 2018
10:05AM
Due to pipeline constraints, Canadian oil producers are selling unrefined bitumen at a fraction of the price many competitors receive.
August 13, 2014
6:00AM
In the wake of the Lac-Mégantic oil-by-rail disaster, when a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken field exploded in Quebec, some people began to characterize Bakken crude oil as “uniquely flammable,” with an implication that new rail car standards might be required to move the material.