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Simon Fraser University professor Tim Takaro is set to have challenge of pipeline company's injunction order heard in court on March 3.

Tim Takaro, a 63-year-old health sciences professor, says he is choosing civil disobedience because his professional code of conduct requires that he protect the health of Canadians.

The Dec. 8 report by Yves Giroux concludes that the government’s decision in 2018 to purchase and run the pipeline remains a profitable move only if Ottawa doesn’t take further steps to combat climate change, and if the planet maintains its unquenchable thirst for oil.

Canada was one of seven nations that increased the amount of public finance committed to the industry, on average, between 2014 and 2018.

Canadian oil producers would be taking a loss of US$4 to $6 per barrel if they sold to Asian refineries through TMX compared to selling to U.S. refineries, says the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives’ B.C. office.

The non-profit Wilderness Committee says the pipeline company’s own maps and sworn affidavits indicate that it failed to start key construction this summer. And that could push the project past its December 2022 delivery date.

The throne speech will happen Sept. 23. The student campaign comes as COVID-19 cases rise again, and as the government appears to back off from its initially lofty promises of a green recovery.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has talked about using the revenue from the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to pay for green energy projects. But what if that revenue never comes because there’s little demand for oil in the first place?

The news comes roughly a year after the large Swiss insurance company declared it would reject companies that operate "purpose-built" transportation infrastructure for oilsands products, including pipelines.

Coldwater Indian Band says it knew the chances of the Supreme Court hearing its case were slim "given the momentum of the project" and an earlier federal court decision, "but we felt we had to use every tool available to us.”

Coldwater Chief Lee Spahan has asked the federal government to intervene with an aquifer study, saying Trans Mountain was moving ahead despite the reserve being on lockdown due to COVID-19.

The legal counsel for Coldwater, part of the Nlaka'pamux Nation in British Columbia, is taking issue with a key shift in the federal energy regulator's approach to Trans Mountain pipeline hearings that abandons oral cross-examination in favour of written questions.

Olivier Adkin-Kaya of Youth Stop TMX told National Observer the group is “looking to fundraise to cover a lot of legal costs."

Although First Nations can "assert their uncompromising opposition" to a fossil fuel project like an oil pipeline, they can't "use the consultation process as a means to try to veto it," said the Federal Court of Appeal.

Canada commissioned reviews of Tsleil-Waututh expert reports on oil spills without telling the First Nation, the Federal Court of Appeal heard Monday, and only provided them after talks had wrapped up.