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‘I was in shock,’ says government insider about instructions to ensure approval of Kinder Morgan pipeline

“I guess that's something that wouldn't have fazed me at all if the Harper government was still in power,” the public servant told National Observer. “But given the change in government, seeing as how we were told to provide serious advice, I was rather shocked at being given that kind of direction. It's not something that I would have expected from a Liberal government.”

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By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 27th 2018

B.C. Premier John Horgan announces reference case is filed in B.C. Court of Appeal.

B.C. turns to courts to regulate diluted bitumen from Alberta

The B.C. government is asking the courts to decide whether the province can legally regulate the transportation of hazardous substances like diluted bitumen through the province.

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By Tracy Sherlock | News, Energy, Politics | April 26th 2018

oil sands, tar sands, mine, syncrude, alberta

Media malpractice and the bitumen bubble

The job of journalists is not to be popular, or go along to get along, but to pursue facts that matter – then let them fall ‘without fear or favour’. Which brings us to Canada’s bitumen bubble, and missing-in-action media coverage, which amounts to malpractice.

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By Paul McKay | Opinion, Energy, Politics | April 26th 2018

Catherine McKenna, Museum of Nature, Ottawa

Catherine McKenna proposes new scientific advisory panel to save Kinder Morgan pipeline

The threat of diluted bitumen spills has been flagged as a major concern by scientists, First Nations and British Columbia. Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna told her provincial B.C. counterpart she has a plan to address this concern.

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By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 26th 2018

Jagmeet Singh pens letter to Trudeau urging prime minister to release secret records on Kinder Morgan review

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Guy Caron have fired off a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to release all of the government's secret cabinet records related to its review of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

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By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 25th 2018

Trudeau goes on offensive after being questioned in House of Commons about 'rigged' Kinder Morgan process

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sidestepped questions raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday about secret instructions delivered in 2016 to public servants working on the federal review of the Trans Mountain expansion project.

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By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 24th 2018

Kinder Morgan opponents suspected Trudeau government rigged its review of pipeline. Federal insiders say they were right

Government insiders say a high-ranking public servant instructed them, at least one month before Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was approved, “to give cabinet a legally-sound basis to say ‘yes’” to the project. Here are the results of a National Observer investigation that was more than a year in the making.

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By Mike De Souza | Analysis, Energy, Politics | April 24th 2018

In B.C., defendants face fines for protesting oil pipeline

The woman was one of dozens arrested for crossing a court-imposed exclusion zone around Kinder Morgan's Burnaby pipeline terminal called to appear at the Supreme Court of B.C today. Although many of the nearly two hundred people who crossed the line decided not to appear in court today, others did.

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By Dylan Sunshine Waisman | News, Energy, Politics | April 23rd 2018

Kinder Morgan pipeline supporters and detractors are being swarmed by online 'bots'

An industry ad to amplify pro-pipeline perspectives is just one example of how the online conversation around the troubled Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is, increasingly, being pushed to its edges by actors on both sides of the debate. Casual opinion polls and social media platforms are open battlegrounds as messages spread quickly and debate become increasingly polarized.

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By Trish Audette-Longo | Analysis, Energy, Politics | April 20th 2018

Jim Carr wants to keep promise to the Tsleil-Waututh Nation

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he plans to keep a promise he made to the chief of a First Nation on the front lines of a major west coast pipeline terminal. It was a mutual promise to protect her nation's territory, he said.

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By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 19th 2018

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