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Undetected broken rail led to fiery  train derailment in Saskatchewan: report

Undetected broken rail led to fiery train derailment in Saskatchewan: report

Oct 5, 2023 | 4:11pm
A Transportation Safety Board of Canada report says an undetected broken rail led to a fiery train derailment in Saskatchewan in 2019 that spilled about 1.77 million litres of oil.  The Canadian Pacific Railway train, which had 101 cars mostly filled with oil, had been loaded in Alberta and was headed to Oklahoma.  Just after midnight, the train was travelling east […]

Broken rail may have led to train derailments near Guernsey

Apr 18, 2020 | 10:26am

Track maintenance could be the culprit when it comes to a pair of train derailments near the town of Guernsey in a three month stretch late last year and early this. The Transportation Safety Board has written a letter to Transport Canada regarding rail safety.  It says in both cases the suspected causes appears to […]

Guernsey train derailment led to 1.2 million litres of oil spilled

Feb 11, 2020 | 12:42pm

  The Saskatchewan government says about 1.2 million litres of oil spilled during a fiery train derailment in a rural area last week. The amount of oil recovered is still being determined, but a significant portion was burned off, the province’s Environment Ministry said in an email Tuesday. The Canadian Pacific Railway freight train jumped […]

Guernsey residents returning home after Thursday’s train derailment

Feb 8, 2020 | 8:06am

Residents of the village of Guernsey were able to return home Friday after this week’s train derailment. About 80 people had to leave their homes after a CP train carrying crude oil derailed just east of the village on Thursday morning. Of the 104 cars, 31 of them derailed, with another 12 catching fire. While […]

Calls for pipelines being made after fiery train derailment

Feb 7, 2020 | 7:31pm

The reeve of a Saskatchewan municipality where a second fiery train derailment has occurred in less than two months says it’s time for the federal government to look more seriously at pipelines to move oil. Jack Gibney of the Rural Municipality of Usborne says “oil is going to move one way or another.” “We have […]

Fire keeping investigators away from Guernsey train derailment

Feb 7, 2020 | 12:20pm

The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment near Guernsey meaning investigators can’t access the site. One investigator has arrived on the scene near the village, about 115 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon, and another is on the way. The CP train carrying crude oil jumped the […]

No reported deaths or injuries from train derailment near Guernsey

Feb 6, 2020 | 2:27pm

Officials say no injuries or fatalities have been reported from Thursday morning’s train derailment just east of the community of Guernsey, Saskatchewan. Marlo Pritchard, president of the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, confirmed the news at a media conference Thursday afternoon in Regina. Guernsey had 85 of its residents evacuate to Lanigan after the village declared […]

Highway 16 closed after another train derailment near Guernsey

Feb 6, 2020 | 6:55am

UPDATE – RCMP say Highway 16 is closed and the community of Guernsey has now been evacuated after another train derailment west of the community. The junction with Highway 20 is also closed. At 6:00 a.m. this morning RCMP responded to the CP train derailment just east of Guernsy. The RCMP have closed a portion […]

Around 1.5-million litres of crude lost in C.P derailment near Guernsey this week

Dec 12, 2019 | 6:12am

The Transportation Safety Board says about 1.5-million litres of oil was lost in the Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailment and fire on Highway 16 between Plunkett and Guernsey earlier this week. Thirty-three oil tank cars and one hopper car derailed, while about 20 were breached, spilling product that became engulfed in flames that burned […]

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