A new valuation of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) by Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer contradicts a more optimistic assessment of the controversial pipeline expansion by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland last week.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is “very confident” the federal government will get back the $34 billion in public funds spent on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. But her statement produced widespread skepticism from opposition MPs.
Nearly six months after its opening, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is boosting Canada's energy sector as promised — but questions still linger about who will pay for the project's massive cost overruns.
Canadian MPs are back in the capital and kicked off day one by digging into the climate and financial impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX).
A long-overdue federal strategy to tackle ocean noise is here at last — but some advocates say it falls short of what’s needed to protect species from the ever-increasing shipping traffic in Canadian waters.
Everyone keeps saying this new pipeline was built to carry crude oil, but in actual fact, it carries something far more explosive and potentially hazardous: diluted bitumen from the landlocked Alberta oil sands.
The federal government has issued yet another taxpayer-backed loan guarantee — this time for up to $2 billion — to help get the massively over-budget Trans Mountain pipeline expansion over the finish line.
It is time for Canada to put an end to the biased injunction culture that has so routinely and cavalierly disrespected Indigenous laws and communities, writes academic Sam Spiegel.
In its regulatory filing, Trans Mountain Corp. said it has run into engineering difficulties related to the drilling of a tunnel in B.C. and wants to alter the route slightly for a 1.3-kilometre stretch of pipe, as well as the construction method.
The city of New Westminster has reiterated its opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline over concerns the line would have catastrophic effects on people and wildlife in the event of a spill.