A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan the power to expand the scope of its injunction, in a bid to keep anti-pipeline protesters away from its property.
Two executives at the Canadian unit of Texas-based Kinder Morgan are poised to cash in with $1.5 million bonuses after Ottawa offered to bailout their west coast oil pipeline system and expansion project, according to a new filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Texas-based Kinder Morgan has scored another legal victory after the Federal Court of Appeal rejected a request to consider new evidence that allegedly showed the Trudeau government rigged its review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
A few days before Bill Morneau announced the federal government’s plan to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline, my morning newspaper displayed the collision of forces behind this decision. On one page was a story about the pipeline’s expansion, and on the facing page was a story about cities on B.C.’s coast planning to build seawalls and abandon low-lying land to cope with rising ocean levels
"This is a shameful path for Canada," said Bob Chamberlin, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs vice president, asking why Canada can afford to buy a $4.5 billion oil pipeline but not safe drinking water for First Nations communities.
As Bill McKibben told me recently, seated on Burnaby Mountain where we were sheltering in the shade of a Douglas fir on a blazingly hot May day, "Physics is remarkably disinterested in how the economy is doing right now, or where in the election cycle we are."
Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan at a price of $4.5 billion. He refused to explain that $4.5 billion simply buys Ottawa the rights to what exists today — a 65 year old pipeline
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his decision to use taxpayer money to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its troubled expansion project for $4.5 billion was made after the company told his government that the project was a "risky" investment.
The food company known for its organic cereals and granolas has become one of the first major Canadian companies to launch a campaign against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau will announce as early as Tuesday morning where the government plans to go with Kinder Morgan to ensure the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built.
Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is headed west next week with plans to give a speech to a Calgary business audience a day ahead of a deadline set by Kinder Morgan for its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Jagmeet Singh planted the federal NDP flag firmly on British Columbia's side of the Trans Mountain dispute on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, after months of trying to stay neutral in the bitter feud between his Alberta and B.C. counterparts over energy and environmental policy.