Enbridge says it investigated an injury to its worker and took “corrective actions,” but it was not the first safety scare that the facility has experienced.
Ottawa and Alberta are steaming over so-called pipeline “delays,” but documents filed with the National Energy Board (NEB) reveal their anger should be directed at Kinder Morgan itself, not the City of Burnaby or British Columbia. The Trudeau and Notley governments are in an uproar over what amounts to a missed deadline that was fabricated by the company.
The number of complaints against the National Energy Board for withholding records in the first quarter of 2017-2018 was 400 per cent higher than the total number of complaints in the previous fiscal year.
Alberta's "hard cap” allows oilsands to grab an overwhelming share of our nation's climate budget. The big grab is growing wildly out of proportion to the share of Canada’s jobs and GDP.
An executive at Canada’s pipeline regulator apologized to staff for hiring a private security firm to investigate staff after realizing the results of the unsuccessful "witch hunt" were about to be made public.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has admitted what many Canadians believed for some time—the approval of Trans Mountain’s expansion was always a foregone conclusion.
Yet even if Kinder Morgan clears the hurdle of a First Nations court challenge and First Nations activism, it must then confront formidable opposition from BC environmental activists. For better or worse, not every goal a government sets is politically achievable.
British Columbia's government is appealing a decision that allows Kinder Morgan Canada to bypass local regulations in constructing its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
As New Democrats closed their policy convention in Ottawa on Sunday, Jagmeet Singh said the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion needs a more thorough environmental assessment before construction.
Two years after a blue-ribbon panel called on the Alberta government to encourage partial upgrading of bitumen from the oilsands to enhance value and free up more pipeline room for exports, the idea remains years away from commercialization.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress soon in the impasse between her province and British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline or she will ratchet up the pressure.
The City of Burnaby is appealing the National Energy Board’s decision that Kinder Morgan did not have to abide by two Burnaby bylaws in the process of building the Trans Mountain pipeline.