National Energy Board

Alberta's carbon tax jumped on New Year's Day, but the province's NDP government maintains the tax played a vital role in Alberta's improving economic outlook.

Energy company Kinder Morgan has received permission from the federal pipeline regulator to break the rules of the metro Vancouver suburb of Burnaby in its construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The regulator said it can’t yet explain why it made this decision. B.C.’s Environment Minister George Heyman is shocked and says all Canadians should be concerned.

Lawyer Maureen Killoran, part of a high-powered team of six from a Calgary-based law firm, called for the National Energy Board to quash Burnaby's bylaws on Monday. The regulator entertained the possibility of granting the pipeline company's request.

British Columbia says the federal government needs to back off and stop interfering in an independent review process over the approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.