The project poses a threat to waters off the West Coast, which Washington residents view as a treasure, and the state is looking at marine safety laws that would help mitigate the impact of a tanker spill, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday at a meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan and officials from Oregon and California.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck has granted an injunction to protect Kinder Morgan's construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but he also agreed to protect a new "Watch House" set up to keep an eye on the Texas multinational energy company.
For several months, a number of people have slowed progress at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Mountain site, often using their bodies to block traffic. We caught up with a few of them outside of the B.C. Supreme Court.
The audience at a B.C. Supreme Court hearing burst into laughter on Wednesday after a lawyer for Texas-based multinational energy company Kinder Morgan said that its new pipeline expansion project was "in the best interest of Canada."
The Canadian division of Texas-multinational energy company Kinder Morgan is seeking to get some money from anyone who gets in the way of its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, the company indicated in legal papers to be reviewed on Wednesday by B.C.'s Supreme Court.
When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.
Kinder Morgan employees arrived at the Indigenous Watch House near the Trans Mountain pipeline on Monday and told occupants they have 10 minutes to vacate.
The air was crisp and cold as they trekked up Burnaby Mountain early on Saturday morning. People's breath came out in white puffs as each of the volunteer construction workers each carried two planks of wood. Their goal was to build a traditional Indigenous "watch house" to monitor Texas-based Kinder Morgan as it proceeds with construction of its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
On the eve of a mass protest, Indigenous leaders and activists from across Canada vowed to do whatever it takes to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.
Energy giant Kinder Morgan has filed an injunction against anti-pipeline activists protesting the company's pipeline construction work in Burnaby, B.C.
"Paternalistic," "inadequate," and "unrealistic." These are some of the words peppered throughout memos prepared for Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr regarding the federal government's efforts to consult with First Nations about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. All of them warned that First Nations wanted more time to ensure their rights were accommodated.
A letter about scientific research triggered immediate denials in a flurry of emails from officials within government in the days before the Trudeau Liberals approved two major pipeline projects.
Three years ago, a Wall Street analyst, Kevin Kaiser of Hedgeye Research, called Kinder Morgan a “house of cards,” ... because they were skimping on maintenance