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State of emergency continues as wildfires affect interior B.C.
July 13, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterMining and wood products are among the industries affected by wildfires in British Columbia’s interior, where a state of emergency is in place. Imperial Metals Corp. announced Wednesday that an open pit copper/gold mine 56 kilometres northeast of Williams Lake…
Present Canadian approach to wildland/urban interface fires requires “radical and sweeping strategic shift”: ICLR
March 23, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe present Canadian approach to wildland/urban interface fires requires a “radical and sweeping strategic shift,” the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) said in a newly released report into the Fort McMurray wildfire. The final report was titled Why some…
Tugs finally free tanker stranded in Cape Breton, N.S., for a week
January 16, 2017 The Canadian PressSYDNEY, N.S. – A tanker that ran aground off the coast of Nova Scotia has returned to port after being stuck in shallow water for a week. The coast guard and salvage crews freed the Arca 1 from a bay…
Transportation Safety Board warns against ‘single layer of defence’ in managing aviation risk
August 18, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterSome aviation firms “are not effectively managing their safety risks,” the Transportation Safety Board of Canada warned Wednesday as it released a report into an incident near Montreal that injured a pilot and three passengers in a Beechcraft King Air…
Verisk Insurance Solutions expands FireLine to Western Canada
May 26, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterVerisk Insurance Solutions announced on Thursday that it is expanding its FireLine wildfire risk management service to include the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. FireLine, which is well-established in the western United States, enables property-specific assessment of wildfire risk…