British Columbia

May 9th 2018

A Kinder Morgan shareholder vote for an annual environmental sustainability report indicates investor concern about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal, says an Indigenous leader who addressed the company's annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday.

Chief Judy Wilson was among a group of Canadian Indigenous leaders who reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain proposal at the meeting where shareholders passed two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

Here is the video of the event of April 26 in Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfoWxyZWuKE

Media release
8 May 2018
Government tactics in Site C injunction hearing already at odds with BC’s commitments to respect Indigenous rights
https://witnessforthepeace.ca/

First Nations and human rights groups are questioning why lawyers for the government of BC and BC Hydro wanted to exclude important evidence about the Site C dam from an injunction hearing set to begin this July.

"Maybe this is what has really caused the cancellation of non-essential spending!"

Editor: Listen here for a summing up of the situation with gas prices in BC in relation to the Trans Mountain Expansion (Kinder Morgan pipeline):

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-early-edition/episode/15541907

pipeline facts

At the 01:41:11 point 

Nearby residents in Superior, Wis., ordered to leave area

April 25, 2018 

Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction.

April 26,  2018 - It’s a good bet few business journalists currently working in Canada would recognize the name Ida Tarbell.

Firm faces steep costs and “unlimited liability” for a Trans Mountain spill.