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Alberta oil worker questions quarantine protocol that sent him to hotel and co-worker home An Alberta man who works in the United States was forced to stay at a quarantine hotel last week while his colleague with the same paperwork went straight home. Darcy Dux is an oil and gas well driller who works for a Calgary drilling company. He works two weeks on and two weeks off, commuting between his home near Stettler, Alta., and New Mexico. When Dux and a colleague with the same paperwork arrived at Calgary’s airport on Feb. 24, his co-worker got to go home but Dux was told he’d be staying at a quarantine hotel. “I gave her the paperwork and she kind of briefly looked through it and then after that she said ‘no you are not eliminated from isolation — you’re not exempt from the quarantine,’” Dux said about his conversation with a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) agent at the Calgary International Airport. Dux presented documents from his employer and from Alberta Health stating that his job as a driller means he is an essential worker. “That’s exactly what she told me. You are not an essential service,” Dux said. […]
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