Resource Bulletin: Government of Saskatchewan Introduces Amendments to Expand and Update The Pipelines Act, 1998
Environmental Resource Bulletin by Saskatoon lawyer, Christopher J. Masich.
In response to this summer’s high-profile oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River caused by Husky Energy, and a 2012 provincial auditor’s report criticising Saskatchewan’s regulation of oil pipelines, on November 28, 2016, the Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources introduced Bill No. 43 An Act to amend The Pipelines Act, 1998 (cited as The Pipelines Amendment Act, 2016), which seeks to expand and update pipeline regulation in Saskatchewan.