Trans Mountain Pipeline

ROTHENBURGER – All’s quiet on the TMX front; maybe a little too quiet

March 19, 2022 // 3 Comments

ALL IS QUIET on the Trans Mountain front, at least on the section that runs through the North Thompson Valley including Black Pines. Maybe a little too quiet. A year ago, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We have a right to protest but not a right to break the law

November 23, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CONFRONTATION AND ARRESTS are now a common part of public protests rather than an unintended by-product. High-profile interactions between [Continue]

SUZUKI – Government should heed Unist’ot’en message about the Earth

March 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

I VISITED the Unist’ot’en camp near Kitimat, B.C., a year ago. The people, led by Chief Freda Huson, are trying to re-establish a sustainable relationship with territory [Continue]

City council backs pipe through grasslands

October 7, 2014 // 3 Comments

UPDATE — Kamloops City council Tuesday backed a report from its staff suggesting it support an application by Kinder Morgan to route its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion [Continue]

Editorial — Pipeline plan creating a Coast-Interior split

September 29, 2014 // 4 Comments

MONDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — A debate at this week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention may have exposed an unhappy split over Kinder Morgan’s plans to twin [Continue]

Civic reps split on pipeline expansion

September 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ POLITICS — The City of Burnaby narrowly failed to get other B.C. cities onside in opposing the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion Thursday. Burnaby proposed an [Continue]

Kinder Morgan unveils Ajax pipeline detour

August 22, 2014 // 4 Comments

NEWS/ AJAX — A proposed detour for the Trans Mountain pipeline around the Ajax mine site was filed with the National Energy Board today (Friday). Kinder Morgan said the [Continue]

‘Kinder Morgan, KGHM working on pipeline’

June 4, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS — They’re talking about it with each other, but neither KGHM International nor Kinder Morgan is talking publicly so far about where the Trans Mountain pipeline [Continue]

Both positive and negative economic consequences to spills — Kinder Morgan app

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

BUT ‘NO SPILL IS ACCEPTABLE TO US,’ COMPANY SAYS/ NEWS/ ENVIRONMENT — There are economic spinoffs to marine oil spills, says Kinder Morgan, the company that [Continue]

Naturalist Club fights plan to route Trans Mountain expansion through Lac du Bois

April 25, 2014 // 3 Comments

NEWS/ ENVIRONMENT — The Kamloops Naturalist Club is raising the alarm about a proposal to re-route Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline through Lac du Bois grasslands. [Continue]

City may go after intervenor status on expansion of pipeline

January 27, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS — Intervenor status will be sought by City council on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion proposed by Kinder Morgan if it agrees with a recommendation from public [Continue]