Supreme Court of Canada appears to love oil and gas companies that kill, destroy, sicken and pollute, and companies that serve them. CP remains unpunished after 47 killed in Lac-Mégantic rail disaster shipping highly flammable explosive frac’d Bakken crude.

2013: Toll in Quebec frac’d oil train derailment sure to rise, Traumatized survivors braced for more bad news inspectors finally cleared to enter charred site

2013: How frac’d oil from the U.S. Bakken formation decimated Lac-Mégantic

2013: Transport Canada ‘not aware’ of crude’s risks before Lac-Mégantic disaster 

Federal agency did not know U.S. regulators raised warning signs four months before accident that crude being shipped by train was highly explosive and unusually corrosive

2013: Shale Oil Wipes Out Canadian Town

The industrialization of shale pollutes water, air, corrupts politicians and kills people. One explosive tank car at a time.

2013: Why towns are powerless to stop another disaster like Lac-Mégantic

2013: Frac’d Bakken Oil: Abnormal ‘strength of the fire’ puzzles investigators, Lac Megantic oil spill size remains company secret, confidentiality agreement with Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway keeps spill size covered up

2013: U.S. agency says companies shipping crude in unsafe rail cars, Judge grants railroad bankruptcy protection after Lac-Mégantic disaster, About 100 residents remain homeless for a year

2013: Study shows high pollution at Lac-Mégantic: one carcinogen 394,444 times above limit; Fracking chemicals in spotlight regulators investigate rail car corrosion & flammability North Dakota crude

2013: Lac-Mégantic, près de 1200 plaignants au recours collectif contre la MMA, Some 1,200 plaintiffs have signed on to be included in the class action suit against MMA railway

2014: Is Saskatchewan and North Dakota Bakken Oil safe enough for the Greater Toronto Area? Cenovus Bakken Oil’s flammability is Level 4, highest level there is 

2014: Safety alert issued over dangers of fracked oil, Lac-Mégantic voted top Canadian news story of 2013; Train Derailment and Explosion West of Casselton, ND, possibly carrying frac’d crude

2014: Lac-Mégantic claimants go after Ottawa, allege Transport Canada was ‘grossly negligent,’ Amendment to class action adds federal regulatory agency to list of defendants

2015: Judge rejects Canadian Pacific’s challenge of Lac-Megantic lawsuit, claiming it was a “disguised appeal” made “two years too late.”

2015: 300 Million Dollars Missing! Canadian Pacific Railway, World Fuels and Irving Oil not “contributing a penny” to $200 Million settlement for victims of Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Quebec and Harper Governments

2016: Study shows Lac-Mégantic disaster left fish in Chaudière River with major anomalies

2023: Judge rules CP not liable for Lac-Megantic deadly frac’d oil train crash. Status quo wins again. Soon, there will be no ordinary people left for the rich to rape, pillage and murder.

2013 Toronto Star: Is Bakken oil safe enough for the Greater Toronto Area

Lac Megantic frac’d oil rail explosion

Canadian Pacific cleared of liability in Lac-Mégantic train disaster, Supreme Court refused to hear appeal after several parties attempted to sue rail carrier by Pierre Saint-Arnaud, by CBC News, May 14, 2026

Rail cars full of crude oil exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Que., in July 2013. Several parties, including the victims and their families, were attempting to sue the rail carrier for its role in the disaster. But the Supreme Court of Canada has now refused to hear an appeal.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been cleared of all liability in the Lac-Mégantic, Que., train disaster that claimed 47 lives in 2013.

Several parties, including the victims and their families, were attempting to sue the rail carrier for its role in the disaster.

But the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal after the railway company prevailed in Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.

On July 6, 2013, a runaway train derailed in the heart of Lac-Mégantic, with its oil tankers causing a massive explosion that reduced the downtown to ashes.

Under an agreement between various parties, a $460-million compensation fund had been established for victims, their families, and creditors of the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway — the bankrupt company that had operated the train.

Feds quietly paid $75M settlement for Lac-Mégantic victims and to avoid lawsuits

Canadian Pacific (CP)— which became Canadian Pacific Kansas City in 2023 — had refused to pay into the fund, saying it bore no responsibility for the tragedy.Unforgivable, the company’s actions, and the SCC

The plaintiffs had argued that CP, which shipped the oil from North Dakota to New Brunswick, failed to inform Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway that the oil it was transporting on the final leg of the journeyhad been improperly labelled.It was highly flammable frac’d Bakken oil, refer below

As is custom, the country’s highest court did not provide reasons for its decision not to consider the case.