Trans Mountain expansion

Green Leader Elizabeth May has pleaded guilty to violating a court injunction requested by Texas-based Kinder Morgan.

Three prominent Quebec-area Indigenous chiefs were among the hundreds of people who gathered in Montreal on Sunday, May 27, 2018, to protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

Researchers in northwestern Ontario are counting down the days until they can hop in a boat with a bucket of diluted bitumen, and pour it into a freshwater lake.

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.

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 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.

The Chiefs of Ontario, representing 133 First Nations across the province, has lent its support to the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in a May 2 letter of support.

If the case launched by First Nations is reopened or appealed, here is a sample of some of the relevant evidence released through access to information legislation and other public information gathered by National Observer over the past two years.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he plans to keep a promise he made to the chief of a First Nation on the front lines of a major west coast pipeline terminal. It was a mutual promise to protect her nation's territory, he said.

High-ranking bureaucrats in the federal government discussed speeding up the review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project in 2016 following a phone call from the company’s chief executive, Ian Anderson, that left officials warning that the pipeline might be “abandoned,” reveal newly-released internal documents.

Senior public servants warned the Trudeau government in 2016 that its consultations with First Nations on the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline were “moving fast” — comparing the process to mistakes that led to the failure of another west coast pipeline, says a newly-released internal email.

Kinder Morgan has blinked in the face of relentless opposition from British Columbia to its plans to build a major oil pipeline. The Texas multinational energy company announced on Sunday that it was suspending all non-essential spending on its Trans Mountain expansion project, threatening to cancel it if it fails to reach an agreement with B.C. and other stakeholders on how to proceed.

With the Vancouver welcoming waves of artists for the Juno Awards, musicians Grimes and Sarah Harmer came to Burnaby to protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

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."