Trans Mountain Pipeline

The federal government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing to quickly flip the project to another private-sector buyer.

An Indigenous political activist was briefly detained on Saturday, July 14, 2018, following a Trans Mountain pipeline protest in British Columbia's North Thompson Provincial Park on Saturday, July 14, 2018.

Alberta's finance minister says the province's economic picture is brightening with a lower-than-expected deficit last year thanks in part to higher resource revenues.

The federal government's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline will add significantly to the deficit next year, according to a study by a sustainable energy research group.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is predicting the country's oil production will increase by 1.4 million barrels per day by 2035, despite an ongoing "competitiveness gap" that discourages investment.

A spill from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline late last month was 48 times larger than initially reported, officials said.

The British Columbia government filed a constitutional lawsuit on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, countering an Alberta government bill that would limit fuel being sent to the province.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says putting federal cash down as an insurance policy of sorts to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built is the result of an "exceptional" political situation.

Tensions over the Trans Mountain pipeline increased on Thursday, May 17, 2018, with British Columbia announcing plans to launch a lawsuit over new Alberta legislation that could restrict fuel exports to the West Coast.

B.C. Premier John Horgan accused the federal government of unnecessarily putting taxpayers money at risk on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, by offering financial protection for Kinder Morgan's investors in the Trans Mountain pipeline dispute.

British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

The "black letter" of the law changes all the time. Biological and geophysical realities change, but not in ways that we can control -- unless we are influencing them. Climate change is us, and the protesters against Kinder Morgan are acting on that premise.

Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline only if it follows the existing route rather than company's preferred route, an administrative law judge recommended on Monday, April 23, 2018.

The opposition Conservatives today, April 16, 2018, will again ask for an emergency debate in the Commons on the Trans Mountain pipeline situation.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in France as he continues more than a week of globetrotting following a brief stop in Ottawa on Sunday, April 15, 2018, to discuss the Trans Mountain pipeline crisis with the premiers of Alberta and British Columbia.