Autumn Peltier broke down in tears as she handed a gift to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She said she made it clear to the prime minister that he had let her down.
For Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, pipeline politics begin and end at home. She won't weigh into the B.C. election where the NDP is opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.
Trudeau approves Kinder Morgan's Trans-Mountain Pipeline. We hear from the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, and debate the question everyone is asking: will it be built?
In the months and years ahead, the federal government and the multinational oil companies will learn just how vigorously and passionately British Columbians will defend our shared interests.
The rally was originally organized to show solidarity for the Standing Rock Sioux in their current fight against the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), but expanded after recent approvals by Trudeau.
A senior official with the B.C. government says the province expects to negotiate a fair share agreement with Kinder Morgan that sees the pipeline company pay for an environmental fund.
Colorado resident Amanda Harper thinks Canadians would be ashamed if they knew some of their pension funds are tied up in fracking operations in her small, rural community.
Scientists say the evidence flies in the face of what Prime Minister Trudeau was promoting this week as a safe project. In some cases, they say there was no evidence supporting his claims.
Prime Minister Trudeau has two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his government's plan to reduce emissions.
Carr agreed that he saw his role as a cheerleader for the projects now that they have been approved, saying the decisions spoke volumes about the government’s view of their necessity.
"You can either be serious about climate change, or you can expand the tarsands. But you cannot do both," says the president of the National Union of Postal Workers.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark says the Trans Mountain expansion is "very close" to meeting the five environmental, financial, and legal conditions she needs to endorse the new pipeline.