Alberta

26/03/18
Author: 
CTVNews.ca Staff

March 26, 2018 

The proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has passed one legal hurdle but still faces another.

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled against the B.C. government’s bid to appeal a National Energy Board ruling allowing Kinder Morgan to bypass local bylaws during construction. The NEB had ruled in December that the energy giant does not have to abide by the City of Burnaby’s zoning and tree-cutting guidelines because the federal scope and jurisdiction of the project supersede local bylaws.

24/03/18
Author: 
Michael Harris
Mar 18, 2018
Back in 2015, while Trudeau was campaigning for the top job, he said governments may grant permits, but only local communities can give permission. On this, as in many other issues, the ‘Great Promiser’ changes his tune more times than a DJ at a wedding reception.
 
 
24/03/18
Author: 
Justine Hunter
MARCH 18, 2018
Ms. McKenna, in an interview in Victoria, insisted that tripling the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline “is not inconsistent” with the national climate action plan.
 
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means
just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” 
23/03/18
Author: 
Shawn McCarthy

March 22, 2018 - Methane emissions from oil and gas operations around Red Deer, Alta., in November, 2016, were 15 times higher than the levels that they reported to the provincial government, says a study in the journal, Elementa, released Thursday.

21/03/18
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk

March 21, 2018 - Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have repeatedly claimed that the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will secure higher prices for Canada’s heavy crude and therefore is in the national interest.

18/03/18
Author: 
Coast Protectors
Mar. 17 2018 protest

Dozens of Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are blocking Kinder Morgan’s front gate on Burnaby Mountain

Coast Salish community members Oceann Hyland and Will George led the protectors in ceremony at the nearby Watch House and then escorted them to Kinder Morgan’s gates.

17/03/18
Author: 
Mychaylo Prystupa
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sits beside B.C. Premier John Horgan at the GLOBE Forum 2018 sustainable business summit in Vancouver on Friday. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa.
 
 
 March 16, 2018
 
‘You need to skate to where the puck is going to be ... clean tech.’
 
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said he hopes the efforts by the B.C. government to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion “are successful.”
16/03/18
Author: 
Joe Oliver

[Russians, foreign (US) radicals  . . . or maybe concerned Canadians?!] 

March 13, 2018

14/03/18
Author: 
Bill McKibben

When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.

13/03/18
Author: 
Charlie Smith
This was the scene in Burnaby on Saturday (March 10). MIKE HUDEMA

 

March 12th, 2018 

There's an unusual clarification at the bottom of a recent CBC News web story about two pipeline demonstrations in Metro Vancouver.

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