Trans Mountain

The Trudeau government is asking the National Energy Board to reconsider its recommendations for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project that was struck down by the courts this summer.

The federal government is shopping around for a retired federal judge to help guide a renewed consultation with Indigenous communities on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Forty-two Order of Canada recipients are urging the federal government to cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and instead focus on the transition to a clean energy economy. 

Elected representatives from Salish Sea communities have urged the prime minister to reconsider the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, citing the orca Tahlequah as "our canary in a coal mine."

For the second time this week, the government used its majority on a House of Commons committee to shut down opposition attempts to call ministers responsible for Trans Mountain to appear before them.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew some laughter from a crowd of journalists and staffers as he gestured to the premier of B.C. in the middle of a news conference. “Stay here,” Trudeau said as B.C. Premier John Horgan walked away from the podium.

Representatives of Canada’s oil and gas industry like to talk about jobs and all the people they employ. In particular, Tim McMillan, who represents all the oil and gas industry as CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, seems to talk about jobs at every opportunity.

Federal Conservatives denied responsibility on Tuesday for a critical mistake made under their watch, which resulted in a damaging blow delivered by the Federal Court of Appeal to the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion project.

Workers and companies who were set to be employed on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion have been left wondering where they stand as construction on the project begins to shut down.

Take a behind-the-scenes peek at the investigation by Mike De Souza and National Observer's team into the Kinder Morgan saga.

When I wrote to Justin Trudeau on October 25, 2015—almost three years ago—I warned him that it was critical to implement his promise to redo Trans Mountain’s review and fix the industry-captured National Energy Board as soon as possible.  

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Squamish Nation and other First Nations spokespersons expressed their surprise and elation at a press conference following the groundbreaking Trans Mountain decision by the Federal Court of Appeal, calling it a "paradigm shift in the acknowledgment of Indigenous rights."

Vancouver and Burnaby Mayors expressed triumph after the Federal Court of Appeal ruled to quash Ottawa’s approval of the troubled Trans Mountain expansion project on Thursday.

As one of the three founders of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, I have a keen interest in preventing environmental degradation, because I know that human health —my over-riding professional focus — is entirely dependent on healthy ecosystems. 

Anti-poverty advocate and Order of Canada recipient Jean Swanson was defiant as she prepared for jail. She's serving a sentence after violating a court injunction while protesting the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, B.C.