Kinder Morgan

FORSETH – Is 22 weeks really not enough time to finish pipeline review?

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

ACCORDING TO A GOVERNMENT media release, the government of B.C. has … filed its registration as an intervener to ensure that British Columbians’ interests are represented [Continue]

SUZUKI – Reconciling energy and Indigenous rights

August 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

IN 2007, CANADA WAS one of four countries to vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with New Zealand, the United States and Australia). With its [Continue]

PIPELINES – The risky business of government-run pipelines

June 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

By SHERENA HUSSAIN York University WHEN THE CANADIAN government announced its acquisition of Kinder Morgan’s ownership interest in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, it [Continue]

SUZUKI – Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy proves need to shift course

April 18, 2018 // 3 Comments

ON MARCH 31, an underwater pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Balikpapan, Indonesia, broke, spreading crude over 20,000 hectares of Balikpapan Bay. Some of it ignited, [Continue]

LETTER – Pipeline protest the beginning act of civil disobedience

March 10, 2018 // 6 Comments

The first major protest against the KM pipeline is planned for today (Saturday, March 10, 2018) and it is important to recognize that this has become not simply an oil [Continue]

PIPELINE – Why Trudeau and Notley are right to support pipeline expansion

June 15, 2017 // 2 Comments

By KENNETH GREEN Senior director Centre for Natural Resource Studies The Fraser Institute VANCOUVER – The outcome of last month’s B.C. election raises serious questions [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – B.C.’s NDP, Greens need to listen to support for pipeline

June 2, 2017 // 5 Comments

Excerpt from comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in the House on Thursday, June 1, 2017: I AM GOING to talk of the broad picture, in terms of the current [Continue]

POLITICS & BUSINESS – Sinking the myth of dangerous West Coast oil tanker traffic

May 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

VICTORIA – The expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline system, to ultimately move Alberta crude oil by tanker through the Port of Vancouver, was a [Continue]

LETTER – Consider the environmental impact of pipeline expansion

April 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

Dear Editor, Please consider in this day and age there will be an environmental impact from the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project. This should not be a greedy [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – We need to think outside box on climate change

February 24, 2017 // 4 Comments

Re: Letter, “Budget treats environment, climate change as an afterthought”: Please don’t let my comments steer you into thinking I am anti-environment but [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Pipelines are good politics, bad economics

January 26, 2017 // 2 Comments

NEW PIPELINES get politicians elected. However, they will remain empty; much like election promises that remain unfulfilled. There are environmental reasons not to build new [Continue]

COLLINS – Talk about being over the top with reaction to pipeline decisions

December 6, 2016 // 3 Comments

NOTHING LIKE a good environmental debate to get the juices flowing. Last week, the federal government approved the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion. It has sparked debate [Continue]

PETERS – National interest, not Lower Mainland, behind pipeline approval

December 3, 2016 // 4 Comments

THE NEB, like the entire federal government, should make decisions that are in the interests of the country as a whole. Because energy projects are deemed to be in the [Continue]

‘They are very close to meeting our five conditions’ on oil expansion

November 30, 2016 // 1 Comment

Premier Christy Clark issued the following statement today (Nov. 30, 2016) on the federal government’s pipeline decisions: “Yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin [Continue]