Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will promote a high-ranking public servant who helped oversee consultations with First Nations prior to the government's 2016 approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
Kinder Morgan's Canadian subsidiary, Trans Mountain, says a "calculation error" was the cause of mistakes in a report that failed to identify environmental violations committed during recent construction activity in May. The violations of the federal Fisheries Act have been an ongoing problem at the Westridge Marine Terminal in metro Vancouver, National Observer reported on June 12.
Lawyers for Kinder Morgan are denying all allegations that someone tampered with a scientific report that was used to support its proposed route for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled nine anti-pipeline protesters are guilty of criminal contempt of court for violating an injunction on March 17 while blockading the Kinder Morgan tank farm on Burnaby Mountain. All nine had pleaded not guilty.
Cedar George-Parker remembers the moment he decided to devote his life to defending Indigenous people and their traditional territories. It was the one-year anniversary of a shooting at his high school that killed four of his classmates in Marysville, Wash.
The Coldwater Indian Band alleges that someone tampered with evidence submitted by Kinder Morgan to Canada’s pipeline regulator to avoid a costly route change on the company's Trans Mountain expansion project.
Texas-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan took six days to reply to a warning letter from Canada that demanded an immediate response to the company's violations of an environmental law during construction of its Trans Mountain expansion project, a federal spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Kinder Morgan put fish, porpoises, sea lions and other marine life in danger near an oil terminal in Vancouver, says a leaked federal warning letter that warns the company could face prosecution for its violations. The letter from the Fisheries and Oceans Department (DFO) notes that the company also went months without filing mandatory construction reports before federal officials noticed.
Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Texas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan made its own decisions to reward its executives with bonuses and that this was their business, not Canada's.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked Indigenous reconciliation and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday as he met with a group in British Columbia that monitors construction of the project, including a chief who told Vice News that he denied the extent to which humans were causing climate change.
A day of action saw protests at the offices of some Liberal MPs, including Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's constituency office in Vancouver, against the federal government's offer to spend $4.5 billion to buy pipeline assets from Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan.