The provincial government took Husky Energy Inc. at its word when the Calgary-based company said it needed more time to explain what caused one of its pipelines to fail east of Maidstone this summer. Husky was granted a 30-day extension after it told the government late Wednesday that two technical reports — one metallurgic, one geotechnical — being prepared by third-party engineering firms were not finished. “Our understanding is simply that the reports are not completed,” Doug MacKnight, assistant deputy minister of the Ministry of the Economy’s petroleum and natural gas division, told reporters on a conference call Friday.
ALEX MACPHERSON – SASKATOON STARPHOENIX – OCTOBER 22, 2016.
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