Oil - Pipelines

13/01/16
Author: 
Jef Keighley

Contrary to the suggestion that the BC government has 'put its foot down on Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion' the reality is that Premier Christy Clark and Environment Minister Mark Polak have their feet firmly planted in thin air.

13/01/16

For the submissions by Burnaby Residents Against Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) and the UNIFOR union to the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings on TransMountain's proposal to expand their pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to tanker docks in Burnaby, BC:

13/01/16
Author: 
Aurore Fauret, 350.org

Friends,

Yesterday, the government of British Columbia joined Indigenous peoples, community groups, cities, climate activists, and thousands of others in opposing the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain tar sands pipeline.

Despite this, and despite their campaign promise to the contrary, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal government are proceeding with a review of the pipeline that ignores climate change, silences communities, and refuses to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples.

13/01/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Police clash with KInder Morgan protesters on Burnaby Mountain in November 2014. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa.

In a final written submission to the National Energy Board (NEB) on Monday, the provincial government announced it would not support the hotly-debated proposal based on Kinder Morgan’s failure to prove it would meet stringent "world leading" oil spill safety requirements.

11/01/16
Author: 
Andrew Weaver

Media Statement: January 8, 2016
Final Arguments on Trans Mountain Pipeline Hearings Submitted by Andrew Weaver

For Immediate Release

Victoria, B.C. - Today Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay Gordon Head and Leader of the B.C. Green Party submitted his Final Argument in the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Hearing Process.

08/01/16
Author: 
Jeffrey Jones

On the surface, the Sturgeon refinery project has just about everything Albertans would hope for as their economy sputters.

It will create jobs by processing scads of gooey crude from the oil sands into diesel fuel. It has long-term bitumen supply agreements with the province and one of Canada's largest oil companies.
 
Its carbon emissions will be piped away for use in old oil reservoirs to help produce leftover crude rather than vented into the atmosphere. That fits well with the province's new climate framework.

08/01/16
Author: 
Jeff Gray

~~Legal observers say that while TransCanada Corp. appears to have a strong case under the North American free-trade agreement to challenge Washington’s rejection of its Keystone XL pipeline, the Calgary-based company has just embarked on a long-haul process in which it remains an underdog.

03/01/16
Author: 
Gordon Hoekstra
Oil tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet would increase significantly to service an expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline.

METRO VANCOUVER -- As the federal review of Kinder Morgan’s $6.8-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion nears its end, at least a dozen First Nations continue to say the review is flawed, and they oppose the project over its potential environmental effects.

Those effects, they say, include the risk of tanker spills in Burrard Inlet.

Barring intervention in the review process by the new federal government under Justin Trudeau, these First Nations are prepared to take their fight to the courts.

28/12/15
Author: 
Tessa Vikander
In 2013, Greenpeace activists held a protest at Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby facility.

One of the most important reports submitted to the National Energy Board’s review of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion has been denied, according to a biologist with one of the hearing’s intervenors.

23/12/15
Author: 
Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion

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