Man killed in crash that caused oil spill northeast of Edmonton
An RCMP epaulette is seen in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
A man was killed in a crash that caused an oil spill on Friday afternoon.
RCMP said the oil tanker crashed and rolled over on Range Road 485 in the Municipal District of Bonnyville at around 2:41 p.m.
Responding officers found the tanker on its roof in a small creek. The 66-year-old driver was dead. No other vehicles were involved.
The crash caused an oil leak and closed the road for a few hours. An Alberta dangerous goods inspector was called in, and Alberta Energy representatives are overseeing the oil cleanup.
No other details about the crash have been released.
Bonnyville is about 120 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Globe and Mail
17 minutes ago
- Globe and Mail
Excitement, nervousness and a sense of déjà vu as Edmonton prepares for the Stanley Cup Finals this week
Kennedy Forberg stood in the sun in downtown Edmonton on Monday afternoon, a gigantic image of the Stanley Cup glimmering tantalizingly on the screens above. Her son's stroller was piled high with new shirts from the Oilers store. Around her, the outdoor fan park known to locals as 'the Moss Pit' was already coming to life, with barricades and porta-potties and first-aid booths being set up. City buses flashed words of support as they passed. 'I'm excited, but a little bit nervous,' Ms. Forberg admitted. 'I don't want a repeat of last year. It's fresh. It hurts. I don't want to do that again.' It is, as Yogi Berra once said, déjà vu all over again: the Edmonton Oilers facing down the same team in this year's final series of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The first game takes place Wednesday. But, standing in the exact same spot where legions of fans mourned – and, in some cases, openly wept – after a one-goal loss to the Florida Panthers in Game 7 last year, Ms. Forberg and her mother, Alison, noted the team – and the signs – seemed to be aligning differently this time around. Healthy and with home ice, the Oilers look strong heading into Stanley Cup Final Alison Forberg said she believes the team is stronger and more unified than last year. And when team captain Connor McDavid audaciously touched the Western Conference cup the other day – intentionally breaking a long-standing superstition against doing exactly that – well, it seemed like something else was happening, too. 'When McDavid put his hands on that other trophy, I'm like, yeah, he's got it this year. He knows it,' Alison said. 'He knows it.' Mother and daughter each sported sparkly Oilers earrings, and Alison wore a set of matching Oilers bracelets Kennedy had made for the whole family. Like the earrings, Alison put the bracelets on before the playoffs and hasn't taken them off since. Her nails were painted orange and blue. 'We're just excited,' Alison said. 'I feel really confident.' In her arms, 1½-year-old Hudson followed the prompt 'He shoots' with a gleeful 'He scores!,' and pumped his tiny fist in the air. In the blocks around Rogers Place, the downtown Edmonton arena, billboards and stores repeated the city's mantras, which have become far closer to incantations now than simple slogans: 'LET'S GO OILERS' and 'THIS IS OUR GAME' and 'PLAY LA BAMBA.' At a nearby office tower, Maulina Saroya wore an Oilers T-shirt to work, which her company allows on game days and during playoff season. She said she puts serious consideration into her Oilers wardrobe during the playoffs. At one point, she retired one of her jerseys because the Oilers always lost when she wore it. But she's saving a new monogrammed jersey for next season because she bought it mid-season, 'so it didn't contribute to the playoff run.' Opinion: The secret to NHL playoff success is that the regular season doesn't matter She said it was nice to see people downtown, and exciting to see the TV trucks arriving, and the infrastructure coming together. 'It's very exciting, and as the week goes, you're going to see more and more. It's a community, right?' she said. 'My parents have been in Canada for over 50 years. They used to cheer for Gretzky, and now we cheer for McDavid.' She said she, too, felt as if Mr. McDavid touching the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl foreshadowed something significant. 'I really feel like we do have a great chance, but I don't want to jinx anything,' she said. 'Just by McDavid touching the Western Conference trophy, I feel like it broke all stigma. And I feel like they look determined. So I feel determined.' Her colleague Pawan Soora had been busy helping organize the large watch parties at their office, which last year involved hundreds of people gathering to watch on big screens set up inside the tower's hallways and boardrooms. As the Oilers head to the Stanley Cup final, some Canadians change teams to go 'Elbows Up' for Edmonton 'I'm so excited,' Ms. Soora said. She said she doesn't have any lucky shirts or traditions to help cheer on the team, except to 'be positive all the time.' Emily Butt is a relatively new fan, having moved from the Maritimes to Edmonton in November and gotten hooked. Ms. Butt said she used to cheer for the Montreal Canadiens, like her father, and hadn't broken the news to him that her team allegiance has changed – and changed so dramatically. 'Oh, I'm invested,' she said with a laugh. 'Tickets are like three grand, and I'd be willing to pay it to go see a game.' On Monday, Ms. Butt went to Rogers Place to buy her first piece of Oilers merchandise: a grey and pink T-shirt for her first playoffs as a fan. 'I'm 50-50,' she said. 'One part is nervous, and the other part is, like, 'We've got it.''
Global News
39 minutes ago
- Global News
Pride flag-raising ceremony in Powell River postponed due to vandalism
Pride month is underway, but in Powell River, B.C., at least one scheduled Pride event had to be postponed due to vandalism. The Pride flag was due to be raised at Powell River City Hall on Monday — an event that's been rescheduled after someone cut the ropes and rigging from the city flagpole over the weekend. 'Basically cut down all the flags, removed the rope and all of the gear that hoist the flags, basically making it impossible for us to do a flag-raising this morning,' explained Donna Gillenardo-Goudreau, president of qathet Pride Society. 0:29 Pride banners in Vanderhoof, B.C. damaged by vandal 'It happens every year, unfortunately. Last year, there is a wonderful church across the street that has some rainbow stairs … that were defaced.' Story continues below advertisement Gillenardo-Goudreau said the city did capture CCTV footage of the vandal or vandals, and that the RCMP has been supporting the group. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy But she said the incident is disappointing, particularly given how small the community of Powell River is. 'There's a lot of connections, it is very small, everybody knows everybody, and it's unfortunate to know there's somebody out there we may know who is doing this,' she said. 0:55 Pride flags at Ladner church targeted by vandals Next month, qathet Pride will hold the city's second-ever Pride parade, and Gillenardo-Goudreau said organizers won't let the vandalism slow them down. She added that she hopes it also doesn't discourage people from attending their events. 'We are not going to lose hope, we are definitely going to keep our events and be out there even more visibly than we would have been before,' she said. Story continues below advertisement 'The Queer community has always been a part of Powell River and the qathet regional district and always will be, so we're here and we're not going anywhere.' Global News is seeking comment from Powell River RCMP.
Globe and Mail
an hour ago
- Globe and Mail
Thousands of hotel rooms opened for wildfire evacuees from Western Canada
Rain and cooler temperatures on the Prairies offered little to no respite from multiple wildfires burning in the region, as provinces opened thousands of hotel rooms for evacuees from Western Canada. More than 190 wildfires were active across the country Monday, with 97 deemed out of control. Hazardous smoke and thick fumes reached beyond the Canadian border, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which issued air-quality warnings from Minnesota to Florida. Manitoba was forced to send people for shelter to Southern Ontario, with the province struggling to find lodging capacity for more than 17,000 residents who fled from their homes. Saskatchewan and Alberta, at the same time, ordered evacuations for dozens more communities. 'You can imagine the stress for the people on the ground,' Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told reporters Monday at a first ministers' meeting in Saskatoon. 'As a nation, we're going to have to contend with future fire seasons being more and more like this, which means scaling up our firefighting capability.' Both Manitoba and Saskatchewan declared provincewide states of emergency last week. The little precipitation that fell Monday in Manitoba did not make much of a dent for firefighters, and officials have warned there is increased risk this week from possible lightning. The province is grappling with 25 active wildfires. Wildfires force Alberta oil sands producers to evacuate workers, stop some oil flows Mr. Kinew said the crews are doing their best to scale up capacity for evacuees, who have been flown in mostly from northern communities. He expects nearly 1,000 more hotel rooms to open by Tuesday in Winnipeg, where a handful of large arenas and soccer fields have been converted into shelters. But in the meantime, he said, Ontario hotels are opening several thousand rooms for Manitoba's evacuees. 'It's in these moments of emergency, and in these moments of crisis, where you see the true nature of Canadians shine through,' Mr. Kinew said. Irene Blacksmith from Pimicikamak Cree Nation was one of hundreds of people sent more than 2,000 kilometres away to Niagara Falls, Ont. After arriving without any family on Sunday, she was relieved to reunite with some of her cousins Monday. 'I remember when I first got to Winnipeg before they asked if I wanted to go someplace else that was more comfortable. My lungs were still filled with all that smoke,' Ms. Blacksmith said by phone. 'All I wanted was for some place I could sleep in. But the children crying loudly there, and the cot in that soccer field's evacuation shelter – I just had no way. I'm so grateful for this warm bed and the warmness they have shown us here." In Saskatchewan, where 19 large fires were active, eight of which were uncontained, Premier Scott Moe said he expects more evacuations this week. The province has recorded 222 wildfires this year – well over its five-year average of 131. Mr. Moe's government has already ordered around 8,000 people from at least 20 communities to flee their properties. On Monday, the areas surrounding Sucker River, Wadin Bay, English Bay, La Ronge and Nemeiben Subdivision were added to that list. The province has not asked for military support like Manitoba because the Canadian Armed Forces have limited firefighting capacity and residents have not yet needed to be air lifted, said Steve Roberts, vice-president of operations at the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency. He told reporters at a briefing Monday that Saskatchewan officials also 'have feelers out' for spaces in other provinces, such as Alberta, should evacuees need them. Northern Saskatchewan, far from the fires, has received some rain. 'But we still have a number of days of extreme fire weather in front of us,' Mr. Roberts said. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her province is now calling back firefighters who had been sent to other parts of the country. She is restarting her cabinet ministers' emergency management committee to respond to wildfires that she said have grown from about 9,000 hectares to more than 400,000 within the last week. 'The wind has dramatically changed our situation,' Ms. Smith said from Saskatoon, adding Alberta has evacuated nearly 5,000 people so far. But Kevin Hampton, owner of the Coal Branch Hotel in the western Alberta hamlet of Robb, says he felt he had to defy the evacuation orders last week. 'In the past during fires, a lot of nefarious characters have come in the back ways and robbed places,' he said Monday. 'I've got too much skin in the game here.' Communities in British Columbia, meanwhile, were told to be ready to flee at a moment's notice near the Peace River Regional District, which has already been largely evacuated. The province had 71 active fires Monday, with B.C. officials indicating potential for more to start in the southeast and northeast regions this week.
