Oil - Pipelines

20/02/18
Author: 
Zaid Jilani
Dennis Kucinich

 February 19 2018

THE MAN WHO saved Cleveland — and paid the ultimate political price for it — now wants to do the same for Ohio.

Dennis Kucinich, the boy mayor of Cleveland who went on to serve nearly two decades in Congress, is running for governor on a platform of radical change to how the energy industry operates in the state.

20/02/18
Author: 
Tereza Verenca
More than 100 protesters were arrested on Burnaby Mountain in late 2014 for interfering with Kinder Morgan’s survey work. Pipeline opponents are gearing up for another demonstration on the mountain on March 10. Photograph By NOW FILES

Burnaby Mountain will once again be the site of a mass demonstration.

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In response to Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion project, anti-pipeline activists are organizing a protest on March 10.

20/02/18
Author: 
Sandy Garossino
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures during an interview with National Observer's Sandy Garossino in Ottawa on Feb. 13, 2018. Screenshot from National Observer video

In a broad and sweeping interview with this writer on Feb. 13, a confident Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out swinging on behalf of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX). Pulling no punches, he took direct aim at both Saskatchewan’s former premier, Brad Wall, and B.C. Premier John Horgan.

20/02/18
Author: 
Mark Jaccard

 

Mark Jaccard, professor at Simon Fraser University, has done energy-climate analysis for all of Canada's major political parties.

17/02/18
Author: 
Alexander Shields
Photo: Facebook Federal Minister of the Environment, Catherine McKenna, with Jim Sanders, President of Enbridge Gas Distribution (center), at the annual Ottawa Winterlude Enbridge Luncheon in early February
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 February 13, 2018​
 
Federal Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna participated earlier this month in a pancake breakfast sponsored by Enbridge, while wearing an apron with the logo of the company involved in the oil pipeline industry and the tar sands.

16/02/18
Author: 
Jenny Uechi
File photo of oil tanker farm in Burnaby by the Canadian Press

The National Energy Board announced on Thursday that Kinder Morgan can begin construction of its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the Burnaby Mountain tunnel entrance. The construction work is subject to other federal, provincial and municipal permits.

The NEB's decision allows the Texas-based energy company to begin clearing and grading work at the entrance to the Burnaby Mountain tunnel on its Westridge Marine Terminal property to avoid potential impacts on migratory birds that might use the area later in the spring.

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