- Enbridge (ENB +1.5%) says it is cutting 530 employees, representing ~5% of its total workforce, the latest in a wave of retrenchment in the hard-hit Canadian oil and gas sector.
- ENB downplays assertions that the cuts are related to its recent $37B merger with Spectra Energy (SE +1.7%), saying the layoffs are part of a review earlier this year aimed at allowing the company to “achieve our strategy of growth and diversification.”
- Of the cuts, 370 of which are from ENB's Canadian division and the other 160 are U.S. positions.