{"id":33245,"date":"2014-12-01T02:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33245"},"modified":"2014-12-01T02:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:20:46","slug":"government-extends-minimum-grain-volume-requirements-until-next-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/01\/government-extends-minimum-grain-volume-requirements-until-next-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Government extends minimum grain volume requirements until next March"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33328\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_191442341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33328\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_191442341.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_191442341.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_191442341-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_191442341-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal government is extending minimum grain volume requirements that are aimed at helping maintain the reliable supply of grain to international markets.<\/p>\n<p>The requirements were first introduced in March to increase the movement of grain that had been left sitting in bins across the Prairies because of a railway transportation bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian National and Canadian Pacific had blamed the backlog on the size of the harvest and extremely cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>They said they had to use shorter trains during freezing temperatures to ensure brakes could be used properly and that meant less capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The government now says the minimum volume requirements will be extended until March 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It says railways are expected to provide reliable and predictable service and notes that non-compliance could result in penalties of up to $100,000 per violation.<\/p>\n<p>CN says instead of re-imposing the minimum requirements, the government should have focused on encouraging greater supply chain collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>It says it has met and continues to meet its pledge to move as much grain as possible, as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal government is extending minimum grain volume requirements that are aimed at helping maintain the reliable supply &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}