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WWF-Canada brings lawsuit against Shell
World Wildlife Fund-Canada has brought a lawsuit to challenge Royal Dutch Shell’s offshore exploration permits in Canadian waters. The environmental…
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Calls for Canada government to revise Arctic shipping plans and heed the concerns of Inuit people
An environmental group has called on Canada’s federal government to reconsider plans for Arctic shipping corridors to include the views…
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Corvus Energy: Low oil prices hindering battery take-up
Richmond: Low energy prices are keeping battery power developments at sea on the back burner, argues the head of one…
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Algoma collects $53.4m refund for cancelled bulk carriers
Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation has received $ 53.4m in refund guarantees for three newbuild orders that it cancelled with Chinese shipyard Nantong…
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Petronas given three more months for environmental study of Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal
Canada’s Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) has given Malaysia’s state oil and gas firm Petronas extra time in which to show…
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Equipment breaks off Stena drillship during storm off Nova Scotia
A piece of offshore drilling equipment broke off a Stena Drilling drillship in waters near Nova Scotia, CBC reported on Monday. Shell…
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Fednav adds more at Oshima
Canada’s Fednav is back at its favoured Japanese yard, Oshima, for a series of handysizes, brokers report. The owner has…
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DSME closes Canadian subsidiary
Struggling South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has closed its metal fabrication facility in Canada as part…
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Lawsuit against retroactive wages for truck drivers threatens Port Metro Vancouver
The stability of labour relations at Port Metro Vancouver could be endangered by a new lawsuit from a group of…
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Teekay swaps LNG carrier newbuilding for an FSU
Teekay LNG Partners has changed one of its orders for an LNG carrier to a floating storage unit (FSU) at…
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Success for Algoma in Mingde Heavy Industry arbitration
Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation has announced that a London arbitration tribunal hearing a contract dispute involving three shipbuilding contracts between…
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Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal passes environmental test
Supporters of the Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project in British Columbia were encouraged by a report from…
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Port Metro Vancouver officials dismiss ‘oil spill’ photo
Fears of an oil spill in Vancouver Harbour have been dismissed despite photos that appeared on Facebook suggesting something irregular…
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Husky Energy slashes more jobs in response to oil price slump
Canada’s Husky Energy announced on Tuesday it has eliminated an unspecified number jobs in a new round of cutbacks as…
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Port Metro Vancouver narrows field to five for new terminal project
Port Metro Vancouver has narrowed down to five the field of bidders for developing its Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project.…
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Grounded MSC containership refloated
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada announced that the 1993-built containership had been successfully refloated after running aground in…
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Thordon Bearings: Seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearings here to stay
Burlington: Thordon Bearings has welcomed the recent introduction of a new classification society notation allowing extended inspection periods for propeller…
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MSC boxship hard aground on the St Lawrence river
Tugs have been dispatched by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board to Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent in Quebec – some 190 km northeast of Montreal…
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Morgan Stanley questions Teekay corporate structure
A report out this week from Morgan Stanley suggests Teekay Corporation might have to reevaluate its ownership structure with a…
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Quebec politicians call on federal government to remove abandoned ship before it breaks up
Quebec politicians on Tuesday turned to Canada’s federal government to ask for assistance in resolving the potential toxic pollution hazard…
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