Trans Mountain expansion

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.

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.

"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.

The reaction is pouring in swiftly and relentlessly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's triple pipeline announcement this afternoon.

Charlie Angus, who has been pondering a run for the leadership of the federal New Democrats, said he was troubled by the silence of the justice minister.

Maureen Thomas, chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation travelled to Ottawa for a last-minute appeal to stop the Trudeau government from approving Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.

Canada is still thirsty for new pipelines to the coast despite renewed prospects for Keystone XL, explained Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr on Tuesday.

Three years ago, a Wall Street analyst, Kevin Kaiser of Hedgeye Research, called Kinder Morgan a “house of cards,” ... because they were skimping on maintenance

The panel is to report to Carr by March 31 — not by the Jan. 1 deadline initially announced by the government back in June when it made public the draft mandate for the NEB review.

It's the most significant investment ever made in protecting Canada's oceans, said Prime Minister Trudeau in Vancouver on Monday.

Protesters didn't get the answers they were looking for as they set up shop in the offices of cabinet ministers in Ottawa on Friday morning.

After several months of consultations, the three members of the special Kinder Morgan panel were not able to say whether they recommended the project, because they admit this wasn’t their mandate.

Anderson's comments came days after the World Meteorological Organization reported this year was the hottest on record and that carbon pollution had reached levels not seen in three million years.

The next United Nations climate change summit — scheduled to start this month in Morocco — is around the corner and it seems Justin Trudeau is standing on a teeter totter.