
Explosion at Co-op Upgrader in Regina
At 3:28 P.M. on Tuesday there was an explosion at the Co-op Refinery Complex, also known at the upgrader. The explosion could be felt all the way to downtown Regina.
“I though someone had hit our house, that’s how hard the explosion was,” said Brenda McLeish. She lives in Glencairn, just a five minute drive from the refinery complex. “You physically could feel the shaking and everyone’s running into the streets and going, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on,’ so it’s a complete different thing from the last one.”
Massive plumes of black smoke and a tower of flame was reported as well.
Within an hour of the incident Regina’s deputy fire chief revealed that all the employees working Tuesday had been accounted for and there appeared to be no injuries.