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Crude oil and other petroleum products are transported in rail tanker cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway train near Olds, Alberta, on Oct. 23, 2018. Industry groups representing miners, grain traders and forestry companies that rely on railways are warning Alberta’s plan to buy and add oil trains to Canada’s busy track network risks causing congestion and delaying their shipments. “It’s a huge problem for our members,” Derek Nighbor, president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, said Thursday. The industry lost $500-million in 2018, he said, because of poor rail service and the inability to get its commodities to market. “I’m tired of this game of commodity whack-a-mole, where the grain is not moving so let’s help the grain people, or the oil industry needs help,” Mr. Nighbor said. “We need to deal with the whole commodity supply chain here. … We need to make sure all of our goods moving on rail get to their markets at the right time.” The amount of oil moving by rail to the United States has soared this year amid rising output from new oil patch projects and persistent lack of pipeline space. But the rise in oil shipments has been […]
