Trans Mountain

The food company known for its organic cereals and granolas has become one of the first major Canadian companies to launch a campaign against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will announce as early as Tuesday morning where the government plans to go with Kinder Morgan to ensure the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built.

Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is headed west next week with plans to give a speech to a Calgary business audience a day ahead of a deadline set by Kinder Morgan for its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Jagmeet Singh planted the federal NDP flag firmly on British Columbia's side of the Trans Mountain dispute on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, after months of trying to stay neutral in the bitter feud between his Alberta and B.C. counterparts over energy and environmental policy.

An organizer of the high school student rally in Vancouver said “that youth value our lands, livelihood and future, over a pipeline that proceeds without Indigenous consent, in disregard of Canada’s climate change commitments and threatens our climate future.”

Texas energy company Kinder Morgan scored a legal victory on Thursday as the B.C. Supreme Court confirmed the provincial government's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was valid.

The gathering coincided with a Canadian Chamber of Commerce "day of support" for the pipeline, consisting of a delegation of business, Indigenous and labour leaders who said they would meet with parliamentarians.

Analysts and observers say they remain perplexed by Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s comment last week that "plenty of investors would be interested in taking on this project," after the federal government said it would offer an "indemnity" or insurance to guarantee it is built.

Terry Beech shows up in casual clothes on a Friday a few metres away from a gate at the limits of Kinder Morgan’s property, watching as waves of residents from the southwestern British Columbia community of Powell River risk arrest by lining up to block incoming traffic. He says that 58 per cent of his constituents told his office in a recent survey that they oppose the project.

Kinder Morgan’s self-imposed May 31 deadline to achieve political certainty for building the Trans Mountain project is rapidly approaching. What are the possible outcomes?

The documents are the latest files to emerge in a legal review surrounding the unfolding Trans Mountain pipeline expansion saga, as a critical deadline approaches. The Texas-based company behind the project, Kinder Morgan, has said it will walk away from the pipeline if it fails to find a way — before May 31 — to resolve the financial risks it is facing due to fierce opposition in B.C.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna's comments follow concerns flagged by scientists, First Nations and British Columbia about the environmental risk of spills of diluted bitumen, the tar-like heavy oil produced by Alberta's oilsands companies, that will be sent along Trans Mountain.

Canada and an American energy company want a First Nation in British Columbia to pay for their legal fees following ‘significant’ delay and prejudice to a stalled pipeline expansion project.

Kinder Morgan’s fanfare announcement is a cover-up. Trans Mountain pipeline expansion lacked commercial viability from the get-go. It has required government supported handouts at every stage of development. Kinder Morgan has put very little shareholder capital at risk. It has always looked to others — the shippers, Canadian investors and Canadian taxpayers — to do so.