VICTORIA, BC – Last night the Council of the District of Saanich voted unanimously (7-0) to send a “Climate Accountability Letter” to 20 of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, asking the companies to pay their share of the municipality’s climate costs.
Author: Seher Asaf
Media Outlet: The Tyee
The new B.C. government stepped up its battle against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project Thursday, hiring former B.C. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Berger as legal advisor and announcing plans to join court challenges to the pipeline expansion.
Author: Henry Lazenby
Media Outlet: Mining Weekly
The newly installed coalition government of British Columbia has outlined its plans to stop an expansion of the Kinder Morgan oil pipelinethat transports Alberta crude oil to Vancouver, on Canada's West Coast.
Author: Derrick Penner
Media Outlet: Vancouver Sun
The B.C. NDP government has begun efforts to “defend British Columbia’s interests” against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by joining the legal fight against the federally approved project and hiring high-powered legal advice.
“We know with the federal government’s approval of this project that this will be a challenge,” said Environment and Climate Change Minister George Heyman on Thursday, “but we’ve committed to stepping up and fighting for B.C.’s interests.”
Author: Andrea Woo
Media Outlet: Globe and Mail
B.C.’s attempted involvement in a Federal Court of Appeal hearing on Trans Mountain pipeline expansion seen as ‘win-win’ for the province.
British Columbia’s NDP government is seeking intervener status in a legal challenge to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, expected to be heard in the Federal Court of Appeal this fall. Here is a look at the case and what it could mean for the $7.4-billion project.
What’s the Federal Court of Appeal case about?
Author: Sunny Dhillon
Media Outlet: Globe and Mail
In naming Thomas Berger the B.C. government’s outside counsel for legal challenges involving the Trans Mountain pipeline project, Attorney-General David Eby recalled studying Mr. Berger’s work when he himself was a law student.
“His history extends all the way back to the Calder decision, which actually established the existence of First Nations title in the highest court in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada,” Mr. Eby told reporters on Thursday.
Author: Brent Richter
Media Outlet: North Shore News
The B.C. NDP is beginning to deploy its legal strategy to slow or stop the construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
Environment Minister George Heyman and Attorney General David Eby announced Thursday morning that the province has hired Thomas Berger, a lawyer and former B.C. Supreme Court justice with expertise in aboriginal rights and title law, to represent the province in legal challenges already launched over the pipeline’s approval.
Author: James Wilt
Media Outlet: Desmog Canada
The new B.C. NDP government has officially taken its first major step in attempting to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline.
On Thursday morning, it announced it will seek intervener status in upcoming legal challenges to the federal approval of the pipeline.
VANCOUVER, BC, Coast Salish Territories – The BC government has revealed a series of steps aimed at defending the coast and communities from the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project, with a focus on ensuring that the Province meets its constitutional obligations to consult and accommodate Indigenous peoples.
Author: David P. Ball
Media Outlet: Vancouver Metro
A Smithers, B.C. scientist who dealt Malaysia’s state oil company Petronas a major blow in court just five days before it killed its $36-billion Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant has no regrets now that the project’s dead.
Mike Sawyer, 60, spent roughly 23 years in Alberta’s oil and gas industry — much of it conducting pipeline environmental impact assessments.