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Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has another hurdle to overcome.

It now must undergo a provincial review, the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office ordered this month.

As the legal cases against BP draw to a close, the risks of offshore oil drilling — and public opposition to it — grow

First Nation whose territory is directly affected by pipeline development sign on to oppose tar sands development

April 13, 2016 - When Rachel Notley's NDP came to power last spring in Alberta, Gordon Laxer's book, After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians, on ecological renewal and Canadian petro-politics was already at the publisher. And so, he was given a week to do some major rewriting because he had not foreseen this political earthquake in the making.

[Webpage editor's introduction: Below are three articles about the Leap Manifesto and the NDP, first from the Jacobin.]

The impossible Dream

By Todd Gordon, Jacobin, April 15, 2016 

[Four articles on the reaction to the Leap Manifesto, first from Rabble]

Rather than fearing the Leap Manifesto, let's bring on the debate

That silly Leap Manifesto -- giving itself away right in the subtitle, which calls for "a Canada based on caring for the Earth and one another." No wonder it provoked fury and outrage.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation said Tuesday they have no intention of backing down in the face of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recently revealed support for Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.

The National Post reported Monday that the prime minister has told his senior lieutenants to draw up plans to make the Energy East pipeline and the Trans Mountain expansion a reality.