The president of Kinder Morgan Canada says he's open to talking to the B.C. NDP and Green parties, which have said they want to stop the company's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
An NDP minority government in British Columbia would be hard pressed to make good on all the plans it has laid out in an agreement with the BC Green Party, experts say.
Ian Anderson has defended the Trans Mountain project as having gone through rigorous assessments in his first comments since the B.C. NDP-Green party alliance resolved to stop the pipeline expansion.
British Columbia's NDP leader highlighted affordable housing and health care on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, as key elements in a minority government deal with the Green party.
Shares in Kinder Morgan Canada fell in their debut on May 30, 2017, on the Toronto Stock Exchange amid political uncertainty around the company's flagship Trans Mountain expansion project.
All eyes are on Premier Christy Clark after Monday's announcement that British Columbia's New Democrats have reached an agreement with the Green party to form a minority government.
The final count in British Columbia's tight and inconclusive election will be known on May 24, 2017, but the possibility of a judicial recount means the actual outcome might not be known for weeks.
The final results of British Columbia's election are still not in, but experts already see scenarios for an unstable provincial government that is unlikely to last a full four-year term.