On Sunday, Kinder Morgan Canada announced it will be suspend most of the work on the company’s $7.4 billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Trans Mountain photo. Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would have tripled [Read more]
Jim Carr leaving Parliament Hill after press conference Sunday Trudeau has 6 weeks to resolve jurisdictional tussle with BC, but delay sends wrong signals to investors, natural resources sector What to do? More specifically, what [Read more]
BC Premier John Horgan during his Sunday press conference to address Kinder Morgan announcement Notley threatens to have legislation ready this week to punish British Columbia for opposition to Trans Mountain Expansion Alberta will put [Read more]
MPs Kennedy Stewart and Elizabeth May were arrested during a Trans Mountain Expansion protest Kinder Morgan says it has already spent $1.1 billion since 2013 on Trans Mountain Expansion Kinder Morgan Canada Limited (TSX: KML) is [Read more]
MPs Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart prior to their arrest. Photo: News 1130 If Trudeau wavers, then $500 billion of resource development projects could be imperiled Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart were arrested Friday after they [Read more]
“As much as some pro-pipeline advocates want to hear politicians going to battle with opponents, voters would probably prefer that their politicians reduce rather than increase the drama.” – Anderson Sometime in the near future, [Read more]
Protect the Inlet media conference Friday with indigenous elders from Vancouver, Standing Rock (South Dakota) Two Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline rallies are planned for Metro Vancouver on Saturday, one for and one against. The “Protect [Read more]
If Rachel Notley wants to swell ranks of British Columbia pipeline opponents, she should keep borrowing dumb ideas from Jason Kenney Rachel Notley has one job: don’t take 50 per cent support in BC for [Read more]
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t figured it out yet, John Horgan is not backing down over the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Any illusions that the BC premier was simply placating Andrew Weaver to maintain the [Read more]
Horgan plays same political game as Notley, declares April as BC Wine Month, garners political support of BC wine makers Earlier this week Alberta rolled out new online “tools” to recruit Canadians – not just [Read more]
Burnaby is fundamentally opposed to the Project and it has been public, vocal, and consistent in its opposition – National Energy Board Watching the Alberta media trip over themselves to praise Premier Rachel Notley for [Read more]
“Co-operative federalism” (BC government, Burnaby) vs. “paramountcy” (Canada, Alberta, Kinder Morgan) Why doesn’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau do something concrete about stalled construction of Kinder Morgan’s 525,000 b/d Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline? This lament was [Read more]
The one thing missing from dispute over Kinder Morgan pipeline is solutions. Notley should be providing them, not bickering with BC Not content with banning BC wines from Alberta, Premier Rachel Notley is compounding her [Read more]
If opposition to Canadian exclusive jurisdiction over inter-provincial pipelines grows, would Supreme Court back “co-operative federalism”? “Sabre rattling doesn’t get you very far,” was Premier John Horgan’s response to the decision by Alberta to ban [Read more]
Notley’s intention to sue, retaliate economically against BC designed to stiffen Trudeau’s resolve Has Rachel Notley failed on the pipeline file? The Alberta Premier has been collateral damage to some extent in the uproar this [Read more]
Is it time for Canada to take over complete oversight of Trans Mountain Expansion, including having the RCMP enforce federal decisions? If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had any illusions that BC Premier John Horgan might [Read more]
NEB finds that City of Burnaby’s permit review process was “unclear, inefficient, and uncoordinated” Anyone who thinks the City of Burnaby is hard done by because the National Energy Board recently agreed to grant Trans [Read more]
If pipeline continues regulatory hurdles and uncertainty, project may become “untenable” The Trans Mountain Expansion Project(TMEP) continues to make progress on approvals from the NEB, government of BC and government of Alberta, according to a Kinder Morgan [Read more]
CEPA says pipeline integrity program begun in 2010 is showing results, data suggests pipeline leaks are declining Thanks, TransCanada, your timing couldn’t have been worse. Spilling 5,000 barrels of crude oil in South Dakota in [Read more]
Federal government enjoys exclusive constitutional jurisdiction over inter-provincial pipelines, can over-ride Province, municipalities on Trans Mountain Expansion permitting British Columbia’s strategy of delaying permits for the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline may be working. Project proponent Kinder [Read more]
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