Oil - Pipelines

Sept 8, 2017 - Energy East is dead and j’accuse the Trudeau Liberals.

While some Indigenous activists gear up to fight expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on the streets and in court, federal Liberal cabinet ministers say there's no going back on their decision to approve the $7.4-billion project.

Inspired by some of the tactics used by protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota, the Secwepemc Nation, situated along the Trans Mountain route, said Wednesday it was preparing to build "10 tiny houses" in the path of the project's construction as a protest and with the hope of forcing a delay.

Like the sections of pipe they are assembled from, pipelines with names like Algonquin, Dominion and Kinder Morgan/TCG CT Expansion are interconnected, and affect a long string of communities crisscrossing the country. The 2.5 million miles of oil and natural gas pipelines frequently leak and rupture, a 2012 ProPublica investigation found.

From: Cameron Fenton - 350.org <350@350.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Kinder Morgan needs one permit - and we can stop it.
 

From: Cameron Fenton - 350.org <350@350.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Kinder Morgan needs one permit - and we can stop it.
 

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has granted British Columbia intervener status in a legal challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, while scolding the provincial government for its "blasé" approach to the case since taking power earlier this summer.

The New Democrats campaigned on using "every tool" available to kill the project and announced plans to join the Federal Court of Appeal case several weeks ago.