Trans Mountain

The National Energy Board says its decisions and orders regarding the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion issued prior to last summer when a court overturned its approval will remain valid except where circumstances have changed.

The decision is 'disappointing,' 'frustrating' and 'disrespectful,' Chief Lee Spahan of Coldwater Indian Band says.

Six First Nations are once again petitioning the Federal Court of Appeal to stop Prime Minister Trudeau’s latest approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

A UBC professor objects to Sandy Garossino's recent column, in which she argues the Trans Mountain expansion is integral to the Liberals' climate strategy.

Zurich Insurance Group's new policy comes after Canada’s regulator of financial institutions issued a statement asking all insurers to develop a low-carbon transition strategy.

If completed, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project would triple the capacity of an existing pipeline, allowing it to transport up to 890,000 barrels per day of bitumen and other petroleum products from Alberta's oilpatch, to a marine terminal in Burnaby, B.C.

Alberta's two political heavyweights have renewed their challenge to Ottawa over legislation they call a gut punch to the province's oil industry.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been considering an “emergency” warning from scientists about an endangered species for more than a year in a case that could have serious implications for the proposed construction of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.

Environmental legislation proposed by British Columbia is specifically targeting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and would significantly impact it, the project's proponent and the Alberta government argued on Thursday, March 21, 2019.

Despite ongoing concerns raised by First Nations, the Trudeau government says it's "on track" to conclude its review and make a decision on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi said on Wednesday at a major energy conference.

A prominent chief is urging SNC-Lavalin lawyer Frank Iacobucci to resign his position as special envoy to First Nations for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Trans Mountain expansion project. Iacoubucci's name popped up a couple of times in bombshell testimony on Feb. 27 by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.

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For a second time, the NEB has recommended that the federal government should approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The National Energy Board has declined a request to consider all of the climate change impacts as part of its review of the Trans Mountain expansion project.

Canada's parliamentary watchdog has made some changes to its recent report on the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project, rejecting previous criticism of its research by Finance Minister Bill Morneau.