Trans Mountain

Four people were arrested at the Kinder Morgan Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby on Tuesday morning while protesting the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

The early cash-out of millions of dollars in stock options is being offered on top of about $3.9 million in bonuses offered to three of the top executives from Kinder Morgan Canada, the company said in a proxy document submitted to the U.S. securities regulator.

The secret overtures offering a financial backstop to Kinder Morgan began in March, even though the Canadian government had made it clear, during its early negotiations with the Texas multinational, that it didn't want to buy the pipeline expansion project, says a new document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sixteen past and present members of the youth council are releasing a letter to Trudeau expressing their "disappointment" in the Liberal government's move to buy the pipeline project for $4.5 billion.

Once they decided on a 100 per cent sale, Kinder Morgan offered to sell for $6.5 billion and the government came back with a counter offer of $3.85 billion.

Opponents of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion gathered on traditional Tsleil-Waututh territory to launch a 'flotilla' of boats to the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.

Last week, I spent more than 36 hours on a bridge, standing and sleeping more than 100 feet in the air in order to block the path of a tanker carrying oil from the Alberta tar sands — not what you might expect from a former volunteer for Rachel Notley

The contrast between how we fund moving people versus how we fund moving oil, is stark: if you can’t afford to fly and you have no car, you have a far better chance at traveling if you’re a steaming pile of bitumen.

Twelve activists on Tuesday launched an aerial blockade at the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Vancouver to stop an oil tanker from leaving the pipeline's terminal.

The federal government ordered the Export Development Corporation to carry out the transaction through a directive tabled in Parliament.

Kinder Morgan's Canadian subsidiary, Trans Mountain, says a "calculation error" was the cause of mistakes in a report that failed to identify environmental violations committed during recent construction activity in May. The violations of the federal Fisheries Act have been an ongoing problem at the Westridge Marine Terminal in metro Vancouver, National Observer reported on June 12.

Laurie Embree drove 400 kilometres from 108 Mile House to participate in the protest. She is a mother of four, a grandmother of three.

Lawyers for Kinder Morgan are denying all allegations that someone tampered with a scientific report that was used to support its proposed route for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

The Coldwater Indian Band alleges that someone tampered with evidence submitted by Kinder Morgan to Canada’s pipeline regulator to avoid a costly route change on the company's Trans Mountain expansion project.

Texas-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan took six days to reply to a warning letter from Canada that demanded an immediate response to the company's violations of an environmental law during construction of its Trans Mountain expansion project, a federal spokeswoman said on Wednesday.