British Columbia

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.

April 24th 2018

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sidestepped questions raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday about whether he was aware of secret instructions delivered in 2016 to public servants working on the federal review of the Trans Mountain expansion project.

The Canadian government looks set to bankroll the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by Texas-based Kinder Morgan, North America’s largest energy infras