Posted: Apr 27, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 27
Ten former workers at the NARL Refining oil refinery in Come By Chance, N.L, have launched lawsuits against their former employer. The claimants allege they were dismissed without proper notice, or payment in lieu of notice.(Terry Roberts/CBC)
Some non-unionized workers who were laid off last year after the global pandemic forced the idling of the Come By Chance oil refinery are now suing their former employer.
CBC News has uncovered 10 separate statements of claim filed at Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court, with the claimants seeking anywhere from $200,000 to $500,000 in special damages from NARL Refining LP, the owner and operator, and its general partner, NARL Refining Inc.
iPolitics By Alan Freeman. Published on Apr 15, 2021 5:39pm Energy East was never really about supplying Canadian refineries. It was just another desperate effort to find overseas markets for increasingly unmarketable oil sands bitumen.
A constant refrain of the Alberta oil patch for years has been that there was something fundamentally twisted about Canada importing crude oil for its refineries in Eastern Canada while the West was awash with the stuff.
That argument was always a mainstay of the public justification for Energy East, TransCanada’s $15.7-billion pipeline that was mercifully killed in 2017 but still survives in the imaginations of some politicians, lobbyists and ill-informed commentators. Why should refineries in Quebec import oil from dastardly regimes in places like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Algeria and Angola when they could get “ethical” oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan, went the refrain.
Switch at Birth But How?
From left: Rita and Ches Hynes; Mildred and Donald Avery / Jessie Brinkman Evans for The Atavist
This is an excerpt from The Atavist
‘s issue no. 113, “The Lives of Others,” by writer Lindsay Jones. In remote Newfoundland, a search for answers about a series of baby mix-ups leads to a woman known as “Nurse Tiger.”
Lindsay Jones | The Atavist | March 2021 | 5 minutes (1,556 words)
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