Oil - Pipelines

08/03/18
Author: 
Lynda V. Mapes

A mass demonstration is planned in the Vancouver, B.C., metro area Saturday against the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project. Nearly 7,000 Coast Salish Water Protectors have signed up to participate.

Building in the courts and halls of Canadian government for years, conflict over the mammoth Trans Mountain tar- sands oil-pipeline expansion is expected to spill into the streets of British Columbia Saturday with massive civil disobedience demonstrations.

07/03/18
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

Indigenous Leaders from Across North America to Stand in Solidarity with Coast

Salish Water Protectors to Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Thousands expected to rally in Vancouver on March 10

 

For Immediate Release

March 6, 2018 Vancouver - Coast Salish spiritual leaders and members are launching an

ambitious project this week to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project, with

06/03/18
Author: 
Martyn Brown
Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman and Premier John Horgan haven't launched a substantial public-information campaign to carry forward the fight for B.C.’s environment.

 March 1st, 2018 

“Notley okays latest B.C. move but warns of pipeline disorder” blared the headline in the Calgary Herald.

06/03/18
Author: 
350.org

Yesterday, I joined a team of Ottawa area residents to form a ‘Pipeline Evidence Unit’. Our goal was to search the Prime Minister's Office and government buildings on Parliament Hill for any shred of evidence proving that Kinder Morgan is -- as Trudeau claims climate safe, spill-proof and compatible with Canada’s commitments to Indigenous rights.

Watch this video to see what we found:

06/03/18
Author: 
Robyn Allan
Western Canadian oil prices are being hit by a lack of pipeline safety, not a lack of pipelines. BLOOMBERG

March 4, 2018

Has Big Oil exposed itself to billions in losses from a widening price differential between light (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) and heavy (Western Canadian Select, or WCS) oil?

That’s the hypothesis in a report by Scotiabank as reported in The Vancouver Sun on Feb. 20 (Pipeline delays impose demonstrable cost ($10.7 billion) to Canada’s economy: Scotiabank).

06/03/18
Author: 
Ian Urquhart

March 5, 2018 

Alberta recently took its battle with British Columbia over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project to B.C.’s major daily newspapers.

The provincial government’s full-page advertisement lamented the dispute between the Alberta and B.C. governments over the need and wisdom of the pipeline project.

28/02/18
Author: 
First Nations Leaders
Lax Kw’alaams hereditary leaders voice support for oil tanker ban

A group of North Coast First Nation hereditary leaders says it is in full support of the federal government’s proposed oil tanker ban.

The Allied Tribes of Lax Kw’alaams says there have been misconceptions about who represents the hereditary leadership of the First Nation. The leadership group says that the Chief’s Council set up to advise proponents of the Eagle Spirit Energy project has been misrepresented as the voice for hereditary leaders in Lax Kw’alaams.

24/02/18
Author: 
Carlito Pablo
Brigade members on January 17 delayed entry of work vehicles to Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby. DAVID MIVASAIR

 February 22nd, 2018


A group called the Justin Trudeau Brigade has stepped up the battle against the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project.

According to founding member David Mivasair, the group has been staging daily blockades at the company’s Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby since the middle of January this year.

24/02/18
Author: 
Jennifer Thuncher, Andy Prest
Photo: PAUL MCGRATH/NORTH SHORE NEWS

More than 50 local and North Vancouver Squamish Nation protesters and supporters headed down Capilano Road south of Marine Drive Thursday as they marched to demonstrate outside the Kinder Morgan facility on the North Vancouver waterfront.

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