Westray

Tigers don't act like house cats

Robert DeVet — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:37:23 +0000

Susan Dodd, author of The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the promise of oil, says we shouldn't forget lessons of industrial disasters

A little more than 30 years ago the oil rig the Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a particularly nasty winter storm. The entire crew of 84 perished.

Westray Remembered

Jim Guild — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:54:22 +0000

Reflecting on the causes of a disaster

On the evening of May 9, 2012 several hundred people gathered under rainy skies at the Westray Memorial Park in New Glasgow to commemorate the explosion that killed 26 miners in 1992. Here are the words of local Presbyterian minister Rev. Glen Matheson, who supported many of the families of miners in the wake of the disaster.

No Accident: Westray 20 Years After

Miles Howe — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:49:05 +0000

Law to criminally prosecute corporations is in place, but two decades later Canada is no safer a place to work

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia – An early morning ceremony to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Westray mine disaster today paid respect to the 26 coal miners killed in the coal dust-sparked methane blast.