A lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law says the Energy East announcement is cause for celebration among those challenging Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion.
TransCanada's decision to quash the controversial pipeline project on Thursday put an end to a polarizing debate over financial benefits and economic impacts that has gone on for years.
Canada's decision to approve an expansion for the Trans Mountain pipeline was a "one-way street" that ignored the economic and title rights of Indigenous people, a lawyer said on Monday.
One intervenor, UNIFOR, the largest union representing oilsands workers, was denied the right to present evidence that the pipeline would result in lost Canadian jobs.
Texas-based Kinder Morgan dodged questions on Thursday about a discrepancy over the number of water crossings affected by a pipeline expansion project. It also said fish could delay its construction.
The National Energy Board has issued a stern warning to the company building a major west coast pipeline expansion about apparent violations of federal law.
Canada's largest pipeline company, Enbridge, has suspended work on an expansion project in the Rocky Mountain foothills of northeastern British Columbia over safety issues flagged by an inspection.
The NEB is great at censoring information it doesn't want the public to see. But a senior official admits it was careless about protecting my own personal bank account information.