Trans Mountain

Kinder Morgan put fish, porpoises, sea lions and other marine life in danger near an oil terminal in Vancouver, says a leaked federal warning letter that warns the company could face prosecution for its violations. The letter from the Fisheries and Oceans Department (DFO) notes that the company also went months without filing mandatory construction reports before federal officials noticed.

According to Rachel Notley's budget, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will produce no benefit to oil prices at all — that’s right, no benefit.

Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Texas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan made its own decisions to reward its executives with bonuses and that this was their business, not Canada's.

La crise climatique sera peut-être le vrai test de l’utilité du Sommet du G7 et de sa capacité à aborder les grandes crises mondiales... à tout le moins, ce le sera pour la présidence canadienne.

"No deal ... no buyout." A speech that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have given if he'd said 'no' to Kinder Morgan is imagined by 'Mitchell Beer, publisher of The Energy Mix, an e-digest on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan the power to expand the scope of its injunction, in a bid to keep anti-pipeline protesters away from its property.

Two executives at the Canadian unit of Texas-based Kinder Morgan are poised to cash in with $1.5 million bonuses after Ottawa offered to bailout their west coast oil pipeline system and expansion project, according to a new filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Texas-based Kinder Morgan has scored another legal victory after the Federal Court of Appeal rejected a request to consider new evidence that allegedly showed the Trudeau government rigged its review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

A few days before Bill Morneau announced the federal government’s plan to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline, my morning newspaper displayed the collision of forces behind this decision. On one page was a story about the pipeline’s expansion, and on the facing page was a story about cities on B.C.’s coast planning to build seawalls and abandon low-lying land to cope with rising ocean levels

"This is a shameful path for Canada," said Bob Chamberlin, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs vice president, asking why Canada can afford to buy a $4.5 billion oil pipeline but not safe drinking water for First Nations communities.

As Bill McKibben told me recently, seated on Burnaby Mountain where we were sheltering in the shade of a Douglas fir on a blazingly hot May day, "Physics is remarkably disinterested in how the economy is doing right now, or where in the election cycle we are."

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan at a price of $4.5 billion. He refused to explain that $4.5 billion simply buys Ottawa the rights to what exists today — a 65 year old pipeline

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his decision to use taxpayer money to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its troubled expansion project for $4.5 billion was made after the company told his government that the project was a "risky" investment.

Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean has confirmed a deal to sell its Trans Mountain project to the Trudeau government for $4.5 billion.

“In a democracy, there is room for nonviolent civil disobedience.”