Trans Mountain

TRANS MOUNTAIN – Killing project would hurt indigenous communities

August 8, 2022 // 4 Comments

By JOSEPH QUESNEL Troy Media Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada. Doing so [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Dreaded words from politicians – ‘let me be perfectly clear’

August 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHENEVER WE HEAR the words ‘Let me be perfectly clear’ escape from the mouths of politicians, we’ve come to know that chances are what [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Living in the path of the Trans Mountain juggernaut

April 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

DRESSED IN THEIR ORANGE and fluorescent vests, they came first with their surveying equipment, distance measuring wheels and magnetic pipeline locators. Then they brought [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Keystone XL makes Ajax, TMX reviews look flawless in comparison

January 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

ONE OF THE VERY FIRST THINGS Joe Biden did after being sworn in as president was to kill the Keystone XL pipeline. He and Justin Trudeau had a phone chat about it Friday but [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Future generations will regard TMX as a curious monument

December 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE may be redundant. If it remains empty, future generations will wonder why it was built. It’s a distinct possibility that the TMX pipeline, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – CER report that says TMX might not be needed is too late

November 26, 2020 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALL ONE HAS TO DO is drive past the airport or up the North Thompson Valley along Westsyde Road to know that the Trans Mountain pipeline [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Protests and arrests were played out in a familiar script

October 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE DRAMA THAT PLAYED OUT at Trans Mountain work sites in Kamloops the past week and a half could have been written in advance. Same plot, same story line, same pictures as [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Protest at Trans Mountain work site was uneventful theatre

September 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, an anti-pipeline protest at the Kamloops airport last week went exactly the way it should. A protester chained herself to [Continue]

TRANS MOUNTAIN – Walsh lauds delay in construction of pipeline expansion

April 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

A Kamloops City councillor says a decision by Trans Mountain to delay work on its pipeline expansion in the Kamloops area until June is a victory for the health and [Continue]

LETTER – Trans Mountain pipeline workers could bring COVID-19

April 4, 2020 // 2 Comments

An open letter to Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix: I draw your urgent attention to the KTW article detailing Kamloops Coun. Denis Walsh’s very legitimate [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Support for Trans Mountain expansion drops as costs rise

February 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE February 19, 2020 – On Feb. 7 Trans Mountain president and CEO Ian Anderson announced that the company’s beleaguered pipeline expansion project [Continue]

POLITICS – Trudeau throwing away Canada’s future for a seat at UN table

February 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

IN 2014, THE SUPREME COURT of Canada issued a stunning decision with profound impact on the future development of our country. For more than a century, Indigenous title had [Continue]

PIPELINE – City council sinks motion to change Westsyde route in 7-1 vote

January 14, 2020 // 7 Comments

An attempt to shut down the Trans Mountain pipeline through Westsyde and move it to the Lac du Bois grasslands was shot down in flames today (Jan. 14, 2020). A notice of [Continue]

WALSH – Westsyde oil pipeline should be shut down and relocated

January 13, 2020 // 4 Comments

A notice of motion from Coun. Denis Walsh asking that City council request the Canada Energy Regulator to order Trans Mountain to shut down its pipeline through Westsyde [Continue]