Author(s): Mike Hager
Media Outlet: The Globe and Mail
An NDP government in B.C. could stop the Ottawa-backed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion by bogging the controversial project down in the courts until it is too costly for the company or politically risky for the federal Liberal government, experts say.
Author(s): Brent Richter / North Shore News
Media Outlet: North Shore News
It was a shared commitment to stop construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline that, in part, forged the provincial NDP and Green Party into their current alliance. But whether the two have the legal wherewithal to follow through is very much up for debate.
Author(s): Supryia Tandan
Media Outlet: CBA National
Politics will surely intervene in determining whether the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project goes ahead. It’s still unclear how things will get resolved in the BC legislature with possible challenges ahead surrounding the election of a new Speaker, and there’s even a chance the province could hold a new election.
Author(s): Dimitri Lascaris
Media Outlet: The Real News Network
DimitriLascaris: This is Dimitri Lascaris for The Real News in Vancouver, British Columbia. I'm here today with Deborah Carlson who is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law and is part of the Green Communities program at the law firm. Thanks very much for joining us today.
Author(s): Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press
Media Outlet: CBC
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley tried to reassure bigwigs in the energy industry Wednesday that her government will strive to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion gets built despite political opposition in British Columbia.
Speaking at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, Notley said the Alberta NDP government has little time for conversations that seek to shut down the oilsands and threaten jobs in her province.
Author(s): Kelly Cryderman and Shawn McCarthy
Media Outlet: The Globe and Mail
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says a private conversation with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given her fresh assurance that Ottawa backs the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, even as opponents lay the groundwork for British Columbia’s next government to block the project.
In an earlier post we compared the BC Liberal and BC NDP Climate plans in advance of the upcoming election. At the time the BC Green Party had not released its climate plan.
Back in December we blogged that it was worth taking a moment to celebrate and reflect on the final rejection of the long-beleaguered Enbridge Northern Gateway project, even though it was announced simultaneously with the federal approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposal (and Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline). As it turns out, the people of Haida Gwaii didn’t just take a moment to celebrate Northern Gateway’s demise – they took an entire day.
Author(s): James Wilt
Media Outlet: Desmog Canada
The National Energy Board (NEB) is a “captured regulator” that has “lost touch with what it means to protect the public interest.”
That’s what Marc Eliesen — former head of BC Hydro, Ontario Hydro and Manitoba Hydro, and former deputy minister of energy in Ontario and Manitoba — told the NEB Modernization Expert Panel on Wednesday morning in Vancouver.
This briefing note summarizes some of the legal risks facing Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion Project. It includes a summary of ongoing litigation and a discussion about additional legal risks, including developments in Canadian, International and Indigenous law.
Potential investors should note that legal challenges similar to those filed against the Project resulted in the cancellation of Federal approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway project in 2016.