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Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Stone’s throw from Lampman Torc Oil & Gas has been busy working within a stone’s throw of the east side of Lampman, as seen here with a service rig and drilling rig working just out of town on Feb. 1. Photo by Brian Zinchuk
Moe, Batters to join rally By Kevin Weedmark of the Moosomin WorldSpectator The lineup of speakers at a pro-resource rally in Moosomin on Feb. 16 has been fleshed out, with the addition of Premier Scott Moe and Senator Denise Batters joining the previouslyannounced Andrew Scheer, the federal Conservative Leader and leader of the official opposition. The rally will take place at the new IJack assembly plant just north of Moosomin on Highway 8. The rally will start at 11 a.m. and will be followed by a barbecue. The pro-pipeline, proresource rally will focus not just on the energy industry, but on the challenges to other local resource industries, such as potash and agriculture, caused by the amount of oil being transported by rail because of the lack of pipelines. Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire, Dauphin-Swan River MP Robert Sopuck and Saskatchewan MLAs Steven Bonk, Warren Steinley and Warren Kaeding have all confirmed that they will attend the event as well. The plan for the rally grew out of efforts by the town and RM of Moosomin to bring discussion of the Energy East pipeline back to the national agenda. The town and RM submitted parallel resolutions to the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association and the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) last winter to ask those organizations to raise the issue with higher levels of government. The town and RM then appointed former SARM president Sinclair Harrison to take the lead on the issue. “The voice of the silent majority needs to be heard,” said Harrison. “Polls that have been done across Canada show there is support for pipelines. To sit back and do nothing is unacceptable, so we will do
what we can. “We were very fortunate to have the eader of the opposition, and then Senator Batters, and then the premier of Saskatchewan agree to come speak at the rally. Hopefully that will help attract the national media, because we want to get our message out to the whole country. “It took a lot of work by a few people to secure Andrew Scheer as a speaker, but because of his national profile, our event should get a lot of attention, and we want that attention because we have a message that we want to get out to the country—that for places like Moosomin, where people are familiar with pipelines, where people know what pipelines are all about, there’s a lot of support for pipelines.” Oil and gas companies, pipeline workers and contractors are welcome to bring their trucks and line them up along the north service road north of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Trinidad Drilling faces two charges regarding 2017 incident near Torquay By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net
Trinidad Drilling Ltd. made its first appearance in Estevan Provincial Court on Monday, facing two charges under the Saskatchewan Employment Act and its Occupational Health and Safety Regulations. The charges were sworn on Jan. 2, 19 months after the alleged incident took place near Torquay, on June 4, 2017. Trinidad has operated several drilling rigs in the Torquay area in recent years. The first charge is “fail in the provision and maintenance of plant, systems of work and working environments to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the
health, safety and welfare at work of the employer’s workers as required by Section 12(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 1996, resulting in the serious injury of a worker, namely Dakota Treso, contrary to Subsection 3-78(g) and 3-19 of the Saskatchewan Employment Act.” The second charge was that Trinidad failed “to ensure that no worker is permitted to perform work unless the worker has been trained, and has had sufficient experience, to perform the work safely…” with respect to the same act, resulting in serious injury to Dakota Treso. Lawyer Peter Bergbusch of Millar Thomson appeared by phone for the defence.
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He asked for the disclosure of evidence from the Crown, and that the matter be ad-
journed to March 18. Judge Lane Wiegers granted the adjournment.
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9 new licenses issued to Monday, February 4 115392 117078 116950 117056 117155 117288 117243 117297 117214
Crescent Point Energy Hz ................................................................................................... 1-29-11-6 Midale Petroleums Hz......................................................................................................... 5-20-3-33 Astra Oil Corp Hz ................................................................................................................ 10-14-7-8 Crescent Point Energy Hz ................................................................................................... 6-22-11-6 Crescent Point Energy Hz ................................................................................................... 13-33-8-5 Vermilion Energy Hz ........................................................................................................... 14-32-5-5 Crescent Point Energy Hz ..................................................................................................... 6-2-7-10 Triland Energy Hz.................................................................................................................. 3-31-6-4 Vermilion Energy Hz ............................................................................................................... 3-7-4-3
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