The federal government is widely expected to green light the Trans Mountain expansion project a second time today,June 18, 2019, but, even with a Yes vote, construction is likely weeks, if not months away.
The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss his concerns about the risk of a fire at a tank farm in his city, which would be the terminus of an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline.
A court has ruled that British Columbia cannot restrict oil shipments through its borders in a decision that marks a win for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Alberta's efforts to get its resources to overseas markets.
A Trudeau government bill overhauling the environmental-review process for new energy and transportation projects is undergoing major reconstruction at a Senate committee, largely in response to lobbying by the oilpatch.
The CEO of Enbridge Inc. says it's "critical" to Canada's energy future that substantive changes are made to proposed federal legislation to revamp how big resource projects win federal approval.
A new report released on Thursday by the Calgary-based National Energy Board (NEB) says that carbon taxes are efficient at reducing energy consumption, and thereby emissions, by households and businesses. The analysis examined the shift underway as the economy moves from fossil fuels to clean energy.
Instead of disappearing, the missing message that senior officials tried to delete mushroomed into a series of controversial stories about the regulator, along with an investigation led by the Office of the Information Commissioner, about whether the National Energy Board broke the law in an effort to hide embarrassing secrets.
Alberta's two main political rivals had opposing messages about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion during their election campaigns on Monday, April 8, 2019.