Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Texas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan made its own decisions to reward its executives with bonuses and that this was their business, not Canada's.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked Indigenous reconciliation and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday as he met with a group in British Columbia that monitors construction of the project, including a chief who told Vice News that he denied the extent to which humans were causing climate change.
A day of action saw protests at the offices of some Liberal MPs, including Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's constituency office in Vancouver, against the federal government's offer to spend $4.5 billion to buy pipeline assets from Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan.
La crise climatique sera peut-être le vrai test de l’utilité du Sommet du G7 et de sa capacité à aborder les grandes crises mondiales... à tout le moins, ce le sera pour la présidence canadienne.
"No deal ... no buyout." A speech that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have given if he'd said 'no' to Kinder Morgan is imagined by 'Mitchell Beer, publisher of The Energy Mix, an e-digest on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan the power to expand the scope of its injunction, in a bid to keep anti-pipeline protesters away from its property.
Pipeline opponents in B.C. rallied in Whistler and Burnaby Mountain on Saturday the wake of the federal government's announcement that it would purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion in taxpayer funds.
Two executives at the Canadian unit of Texas-based Kinder Morgan are poised to cash in with $1.5 million bonuses after Ottawa offered to bailout their west coast oil pipeline system and expansion project, according to a new filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.