Canadian oil and gas companies are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to winning public support by adopting aggressive grassroots-style marketing tactics.
"TransCanada is trying to wrap this pipeline in a Canadian flag, but the truth is that they will do what is most profitable,” said Keith Stewart from Greenpeace Canada.
The affected areas include some habitat of some endangered amphibians and rare plant species disrupted during 2012 drilling work beneath the Red Deer and South Saskatchewan Rivers.
Tar sands expansion ends here and now, said more than 800 protesters at a demonstration against the Trans Mountain expansion on Saturday in Vancouver, B.C.
Staff at Canada's nuclear watchdog were developing strategic plans for management to review its oversight role based on the "political environment" in 2015, says an internal federal document.