Canadian crude prices near a six-year low may weaken further should workers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd carry through with threats to strike this weekend. The company faces a work stoppage as soon as Feb. 15 by Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Unifor Local 101R, which represent a combined 5,000 workers. Canadian Pacific will deploy managers “to maintain a reduced freight service” on its Canadian lines. Canadian oil companies have increasingly relied on rail cars to deliver crude produced in Alberta to refineries as far away as the U.S. Gulf Coast. Canadian Pacific delivered 110,000 carloads of crude last year, 22 percent more than in 2013, according to company data. Without “enough trains operating, I could see how it will delay the deliveries of crude shipments,” Dinara Millington, a vice president at the Canadian Energy Research Institute, said by phone Friday. “The prices of WCS could decline […]