Machinery

Canadian National Railway (CN) has taken back the keys to a bankrupt shortline carrying grain and forest products in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. CN announced Thursday it plans to restart freight service on about 75 per cent of Kelowna Pacific Railway’s track and will file to discontinue the remainder. KPR, which launched in 1999 using […] Read more

The union representing Canadian National Railway’s conductors, yardmen, trainmen and traffic co-ordinators says talks toward a new contract are “likely” on track for another labour dispute. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) reported Monday that CN is already seeking conciliation in talks toward new contracts for about 3,300 affected staff. The TCRC’s previous collective agreement […] Read more

Tests on two unrelated canola fields in Manitoba in August and September have confirmed clubroot on both samples, Manitoba’s agriculture department said Thursday. “Due to these results, the department says Manitoba can no longer be considered free of clubroot disease,” the department said in a special bulletin. The discovery of clubroot symptoms in Manitoba had […] Read more

Six people and three companies, including an Indiana operation claiming to make biofuel from chicken fat and vegetable oils, were charged with defrauding investors and consumers out of more than US$100 million, prosecutors in Indianapolis said Wednesday. The indictment alleged four men operating E-Biofuels of Middletown, Indiana and two others with New Jersey-based Caravan Trading […] Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard is still investigating what caused a grain barge to drift away from its moorings and into the shipping channel on a river in the Pacific Northwest late last week, a Coast Guard spokesman said Tuesday. The 12.8-metre wide, 74.7-metre long barge was later safely retrieved and there was no reported impact […] Read more