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Trans Mountain

Reports on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

298 Articles
A woman with long, curly red hair and glasses, wearing a light-grey checkered blazer and light pink shirt stands to ask a question in the House of Commons

Bloc Québécois MP blasts feds for Trans Mountain’s ‘cooked’ books

Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé blasted the federal government in question period after a report forecasted roughly $17 billion of Trans Mountain’s public debt will be forgiven. 
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
October 12th 2022

Taxpayers likely to eat $17 billion of Trans Mountain’s debt, report says

Finance Canada won’t confirm whether it will consider forgiving Trans Mountain’s massive public debts at the expense of taxpayers, despite ample indications that loan forgiveness is inevitable.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
October 6th 2022

Energy regulator gives Trans Mountain a ‘break’ on possible oil spill costs, say MPs, environmentalists

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup costs of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
August 23rd 2022
A river in the foreground and worksite in background on the bank with heavy machinery

Feds to monitor remaining Trans Mountain work in Hope, B.C., after concerns over dead salmon

Pausing Trans Mountain pipeline construction at a Hope, B.C., river crossing would have only increased the risk to salmon later, as they arrive in greater numbers in late August and into September, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) told Canada’s National Observer.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
August 16th 2022
a dead salmon lies in the middle of a shallow stream

Environmentalists push DFO to halt pipeline construction after dead salmon found at Trans Mountain site

Environmentalists are calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to halt pipeline construction in Hope, B.C., after dead salmon were found at Trans Mountain’s worksite on the Coquihalla River last weekend. 
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
August 10th 2022

Canada’s case for Trans Mountain assumes the pipeline will operate for 100 years. PBO disagrees

Secret reports the federal government is relying on to argue the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is commercially viable are based on the unrealistic assumption the pipeline will operate for 100 years, Canada’s financial watchdog told Canada’s National Observer.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
June 24th 2022
pipes sit in front of a construction site

Will Trans Mountain skimp on oil spill coverage for its new pipeline?

When Trans Mountain's new pipeline and facilities are ready to operate, the company says "a slight increase" to its $1-billion liabilities plan for the existing pipeline will be sufficient to cover the risk of an oil spill on either the current line or its new counterpart.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
June 15th 2022

Canada’s biggest banks quietly prop up TMX

Canada's biggest banks are behind a controversial loan to the massively over-budget oilsands pipeline, new data reveals.
Trans Mountain
By
  • John Woodside
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
May 31st 2022
A woman gestures, holding a pen, mid sentence

Chrystia Freeland feels the heat over $10B Trans Mountain loan guarantee

MPs fired scathing remarks at Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday over the federal government’s decision to put $10 billion in taxpayer dollars on the line to finance the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
May 13th 2022
A woman stands with her mouth open, looking stunned, surrounded by reporters

What we do and don’t know about Chrystia Freeland’s Trans Mountain claims

Finance Canada has helped Trans Mountain secure $10 billion in new financing to complete construction of the controversial pipeline by promising investors that if the Crown corporation can’t pay back the loans, the public will.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • John Woodside
  • Explainer
  • Energy
  • Politics
May 12th 2022

Trans Mountain pipeline insurers dropping like flies

Lloyd’s of London syndicate Aspen Insurance announced April 21 it will cut ties with Trans Mountain when its insurance policy expires this summer, making it the 17th company to do so.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
April 25th 2022

Canada ‘very unlikely’ to get money back on TMX investment, financial watchdog says

Canada’s financial watchdog says the federal government is “very unlikely” to recoup its $4.5-billion investment in the Trans Mountain pipeline now that the project’s costs have soared by 70 per cent.
Trans Mountain
By
  • Natasha Bulowski
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
March 3rd 2022

Trans Mountain fights to sidestep fire bylaws at Burnaby terminal

Burnaby is fighting back against Trans Mountain’s request to be excused from certain fire safety plans.
Trans Mountain
By
  • John Woodside
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
December 29th 2021

TMX pipeline and B.C.’s climate tragedy

Extreme weather fuelled by climate breakdown is exposing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in British Columbia and is reviving questions among environmentalists and residents about building the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.
Trans Mountain
By
  • John Woodside
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
November 18th 2021

Will the next federal government lift the curtain on the true cost of TMX?

The costs of the Trans Mountain expansion project continue to soar, but with the company behind it increasingly opaque since Ottawa bought the pipeline, it’s difficult to say by how much, according to a new report from West Coast Environmental Law.
Trans Mountain
By
  • John Woodside
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Ottawa Insider
September 9th 2021

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