Parkland Fuel agrees to deliver retail Shell LNG

CALGARY — The company that supplies gasoline and diesel through Fas Gas and Esso stations is jumping into liquefied natural gas retailing.

Red Deer-based Parkland Fuel Corp., Canada’s largest independent fuel distributor and marketer, said it has agreed with Shell Canada Ltd. to distribute the LNG it will start producing at its Jumping Pound facility near Cochrane next year.

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Group planning airport for Parkland County

EDMONTON – If a group of pilots and investors has its way, a new airport in Parkland County just west of Edmonton could handle the corporate, charter and medical flights that would be lost at Edmonton City Centre Airport.

The Parkland Airport Development Corp. wants to build an airport on farmland south of Highway 16A and west of Highway 60, about five minutes west of Anthony Henday Drive.

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Parkland Fuel Corp. keeps on growing

Parkland Fuel Corp. continues to grow.

The Red Deer-based company (TSX: PKI) announced on Thursday that it’s buying Elbow River Marketing LP from AvenEx Energy Corp. for approximately $90 million. The deal is expected to close on or about Feb. 15.

Elbow River markets, supplies and transports petroleum products in North America.

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