CTV British Columbia | RCMP expands investigation into missing chemicals: "RCMP officials have intensified their investigation into two tonnes of an explosive chemical compound that went missing, CTV News has learned.
Last month, pipeline and energy storage company Kinder Morgan contacted the RCMP to say that it couldn't account for two one-tonne bags of ammonium nitrate that had been part of a 6,000-bag shipment.
About a week later, the company said that the discrepancy was simply due to a clerical error, and RCMP officials said they were 'satisfied that no product is missing.'
However, this past weekend, RCMP officials said they couldn't confirm if a clerical error had, in fact, occurred and were still investigating.
Here's what CTV News has learned:
* The 6,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was manufactured in Alberta by Agrium Inc.
* It was shipped to Dyno Nobel, an explosives company, which prepared it and bagged it.
* Dyno Nobel hired one or more trucking companies to carry the explosive material across the Rockies to Kinder Morgan's North Vancouver yard.
* From there, it was shipped to a storage facility in Surrey. That's when the two bags were discovered missing.
On Friday, police asked for records from Calgary-based Agrium and Dyno Nobel, whose headquarters are in Utah."
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