Kinder Morgan

Saskatchewan's former premier offered rare praise for the Trudeau government Wednesday, as well as hard questions for the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as British Columbia Premier John Horgan's government continues to challenge the project.

As the federal government doubles down on support for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion project, Transport Minister Marc Garneau is strengthening the oceans protection plan that aims to keep British Columbia's waters free of oil spills.

Canada and an American energy company want a First Nation in British Columbia to pay for their legal fees following ‘significant’ delay and prejudice to a stalled pipeline expansion project.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Wednesday he is prepared to protect the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion to the west coast against financial loss. The Trudeau government has been in discussions with Alberta as well as the proponent of Trans Mountain, Kinder Morgan, over an arrangement to use public money to back the pipeline.​

Kinder Morgan’s fanfare announcement is a cover-up. Trans Mountain pipeline expansion lacked commercial viability from the get-go. It has required government supported handouts at every stage of development. Kinder Morgan has put very little shareholder capital at risk. It has always looked to others — the shippers, Canadian investors and Canadian taxpayers — to do so.

The federal Transport Department is refusing to explain why it rejected a marine safety concern flagged by the B.C. government in 2016 that was related to the Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project.

NDP MP Kennedy Stewart is one of over 200 people arrested on a Burnaby construction site in metro Vancouver, where the Texas energy giant is trying to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The House of Commons breaks for a constituency week on Monday and returns May 22, which means that between now and the end of the month, the Commons sits for nine days. Legislation often takes longer than that to become law.

The environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying "dirty tar sands oil" would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.

The outspoken climate and anti-pipeline advocate will be an independent candidate in the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor in the fall.

The former B.C. government of Christy Clark pressed Ottawa in 2016 to fix 11 "gaps" that could turn the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project into a disaster, reveal internal briefing notes obtained by National Observer.

A group of Canadian Indigenous leaders reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at parent company Kinder Morgan’s annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday. In a move seen as a victory for the project's opponents, shareholders voted for two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

CanLit star Shaena Lambert tied herself to the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby pipeline terminal in an act of civil disobedience on Saturday. Lambert was arrested by the RCMP along with Cat Roivas, a Chippewayan woman who had already been arrested twice for blocking access to the Texas-based company’s tank farm.

“The facts and circumstances which have given rise to this motion are highly unusual and, indeed, extremely alarming,” said the motion, submitted on May 2 to the Federal Court of Appeal by lawyers for the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Canada is in an uncomfortable space. For over 150 years, this country has been in a push/pull dynamic relationship with First Nations people.