Refinery

• Parkland refinery holds Tuesday info session for Burnaby residents after January incident

  The event comes nearly a month after an incident forced a shutdown at the plant and the release of a foul odour across the region.

  Canada

  Feb 20
  
• Burnaby can recover nearly $30K for Parkland refinery incident response: Report

  Burnaby firefighters spent more than six hours on standby outside the refinery after a problem cropped up during a restart operation on Jan. 21.

  Environment

  Feb 12
  
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• Burnaby looks to recoup $30K firefighter bill for Parkland refinery incident

  Council also approved a motion Monday night calling for an independent investigation of the Jan. 21 incident at the region's only major refinery.

  Politics

  Jan 30
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• Suncor contains leak at Commerce City refinery amid efforts to restart Colorado facility

  Suncor Energy said it responded to a leak while performing maintenance at its Commerce City refinery in Colorado, which was shut down in December 2022 after extreme weather damage.

  Money

  Feb 21, 2023
• Extreme weather, fires forced shutdown of Colorado refinery: Suncor

  Suncor Energy Inc. says its Colorado refinery is offline following mutliple fires and it expects it to be out of commission until late March.

  Economy

  Dec 29, 2022
• Man injured in Newfoundland refinery explosion has died

  Refinery owner Braya Renewables says one of the workers injured in the Sept. 2 explosion at its facility in Come By Chance, Newfoundland has died.

  Canada

  Oct 16, 2022
• Summer road trips partly to blame for escalating gas prices

  Gas prices have jumped significantly at most Alberta stations, some by as much as 10 cents per litre.

  Consumer

  Jul 16, 2021
• U.S.-based Origin International makes bid to buy refinery in Come By Chance, N.L.

  The facility's future was thrown into uncertainty when Irving Oil announced its agreement with Silverpeak to buy the refinery had fallen apart.

  Canada

  Nov 4, 2020
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• Federated Co-op Limited and Unifor Local 594 reflect on six months of lockout

  The labour dispute between Federated Co-op Limited and Unifor Local 594 has now hit the six month mark.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2020
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• Unifor reviewing CRC’s ‘best and final offer’ as employer moves to force vote

  "We are currently reviewing the offer and will provide a detailed synopsis for the membership soon," Unifor Local 594 said in a Facebook post Monday afternoon

  Canada

  Mar 30, 2020