Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly warned a First Nations leader against disparaging communities that have agreed to allow the Trans Mountain pipeline across their land in exchange for economic benefits.
It feels like an instant replay of the project’s last NEB review, which concluded in 2016. That review and the resulting federal cabinet approval of the pipeline and tanker project resulted in 15 legal challenges that led to a two-week hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA). The result? The court quashed the federal approval
Oil producers confirmed it would be a "great cost challenge" to ensure the safe tanker transport of toxic diluted bitumen through marine waterways. They also confirmed they were willing to pay that cost.
The Trans Mountain pipeline has generated $70 million in earnings since it was bought by the Canadian government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau's fiscal update revealed Wednesday.
The National Energy Board will hear oral traditional evidence from Indigenous groups in the coming weeks as part of its new review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Canada's spy agency says many members of the environmental and Indigenous communities see the federal purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline as a betrayal, and suggests that could intensify opposition to expanding the project.
The federal Opposition leader is likening the stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to a famous Monty Python sketch in which two men argue over whether a parrot is actually dead.
"I can say without a doubt that [the Trans Mountain expansion review] was the worst regulatory process I've ever been part of...the government is making the exact same mistakes that landed them in court last time," said West Coast Environmental Law staff lawyer Eugene Kung.
There's a "seller's market" for attractive assets like those held by its Canadian subsidiary, the CEO of Kinder Morgan Inc. said on a conference call Wednesday to discuss third-quarter results.
The back-to-the-drawing board environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will assess the impact of increased oil tanker traffic out to about 12 nautical miles from the B.C. coastline.
Twelve anti-pipeline daredevils that rappelled from Vancouver’s Ironworkers’ Bridge in July and flew large flags protesting Trans Mountain have been told they will not be charged.
The Trudeau government says it won't appeal an Aug. 30 Federal Court of Appeal ruling that quashed its approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, instead choosing to appoint a former Supreme Court justice to oversee new Indigenous consultations.
A communications specialist for the Sierra Club of B.C. Foundation says an error on the National Energy Board's website could confuse potential participants in the latest review of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.