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WATCH: 'We need to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies'

Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Catherine McKenna, talks with CNO Editor-in-Chief Linda Solomon Wood about Joe Biden's climate plan and Canada's challenges and achievements.

By Luke Ottenhof | News | May 5th 2021

Why won’t this giant oil pipeline reveal its secret insurers?

The expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline will stretch hundreds miles and is fiercely opposed by numerous groups — but despite repeated calls, the Canadian government has not forced the pipeline to reveal its insurers.

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By Carl Meyer & Emily Holden | News, Business, US News, Energy, Politics | May 4th 2021

Trans Mountain wins approval to keep insurers secret

Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls it a "dangerous precedent" that limits its ability to assert its inherent and constitutionally protected rights.

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By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | April 29th 2021

Hummingbirds put a temporary halt on Trans Mountain

One of B.C.’s smallest birds is responsible for a four-month stop-work order on one of the federal government’s largest projects, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

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By Cloe Logan | News | April 27th 2021

How the four main federal parties’ climate plans stack up

On Thursday, Erin O’Toole, leader of the official Opposition Conservative Party, released his long-awaited climate plan, complete with its own price on pollution, meaning that all the major national political parties now support some form of carbon pricing.

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By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | April 16th 2021

Four demonstrators arrested after blocking Vancouver port access for 24 hours

Indigenous youth calling themselves Braided Warriors temporarily blocked and forced the shutdown of a major Vancouver intersection to protest a 90-day jail sentence handed to an anti-pipeline protester.

By The Canadian Press | News | March 4th 2021

Trans Mountain pipeline owner asks to keep identity of insurers secret

Federal government-owned Trans Mountain is asking the Canada Energy Regulator to keep secret the identities of the companies that provide insurance coverage for its pipeline system because of fears environmental activists will target them.

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By The Canadian Press | News, Energy | February 24th 2021

Trans Mountain says it had safety in mind when it removed peaceful pipeline protest site

Simon Fraser University professor Tim Takaro is set to have challenge of pipeline company's injunction order heard in court on March 3.

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By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | February 11th 2021

Physician challenges Trans Mountain pipeline in court after protest site demolished

Tim Takaro, a 63-year-old health sciences professor, says he is choosing civil disobedience because his professional code of conduct requires that he protect the health of Canadians.

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By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | February 10th 2021

Budget officer provokes fresh round of suspicion over Trans Mountain profitability

The Dec. 8 report by Yves Giroux concludes that the government’s decision in 2018 to purchase and run the pipeline remains a profitable move only if Ottawa doesn’t take further steps to combat climate change, and if the planet maintains its unquenchable thirst for oil.

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By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | December 9th 2020

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