Trans Mountain

The First Nations leader who received an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday for failed Trans Mountain pipeline consultations says he won’t accept the apology until Trudeau visits his community.

When Finance Minister Morneau delivered his Fall Economic Update in the third week of November he painted a rosy picture of Trans Mountain’s financial performance. What Morneau didn’t tell Canadians is that if he had included interest expense for the debt taken on to buy the pipeline, there is actually a loss.

The Canadian Crown corporation that controls the Trans Mountain oil pipeline booked over $20 million in interest expenses in a single month.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Alberta is in a crisis as the province's oil is being sold at a discount of about $45 a barrel, but he and some oil company bosses agree there are no easy fixes Ottawa can offer.

Will a price on carbon be a central issue in Alberta's 2019 election? With opinion polls that show Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has a wide lead over Premier Rachel Notley's NDP, and signs that oilpatch leaders are undermining the government's approach to pollution, the pressure is on for Notley's team to show their work on the economy, climate change and renewable energy issues.

Tim Fontaine launched the satirical Walking Eagle News site about a year ago after a lengthy career as a journalist covering Indigenous issues in Canada. Today, tongue firmly in cheek, he gives himself the titles Editor-in-Grand-Chief and Head Writer of "your finest source of Indigenous news, anywhere."

"I can say without a doubt that [the Trans Mountain expansion review] was the worst regulatory process I've ever been part of...the government is making the exact same mistakes that landed them in court last time," said West Coast Environmental Law staff lawyer Eugene Kung. 

Twelve anti-pipeline daredevils that rappelled from Vancouver’s Ironworkers’ Bridge in July and flew large flags protesting Trans Mountain have been told they will not be charged.

A raucous crowd of more than 1,500 crammed into a Calgary convention centre on Friday, October 5, 2018, night to hear Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta's Opposition United Conservative Party, rail against the federal carbon tax.

A communications specialist for the Sierra Club of B.C. Foundation says an error on the National Energy Board's website could confuse potential participants in the latest review of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Canada’s Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research, or COOGER, studies how the toxic mix of oil sands crude and diluent that courses through pipelines could damage the environment in the event of a spill — and how microbes could help clean it up.

Canada's National Energy Board is giving members of the public and other affected stakeholders less than a week to register to participate in a new review of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The president and CEO of Trans Mountain Corp. says its sidelined pipeline project could be back on track by next year under a new National Energy Board hearing schedule, setting it up for a possible 2022 opening date.

"Why doesn't the prime minister just say the truth and tell Indigenous Peoples that he doesn't give a f**k about their rights?" demanded the NDP's Romeo Saganash re Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled his proposed fix to the troubled project on Monday in Ottawa. He listed a series of actions he would take today if he were in Justin Trudeau’s shoes.