VICTORIA - Police say five people have been arrested following a protest at the British Columbia legislature. Victoria police say the five were taken into custody at about 9 p.m. Wednesday and each faces a charge of mischief. Police say there were no injuries in the arrests and they alleged the protesters called for others to surround the legislature building. They say officers were "actively obstructed" and because of the size of the crowd, it took several hours for the protesters to [Read more]
Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases
OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigenous groups from British Columbia. Some had wanted the top court to consider whether the Liberal cabinet violated the Species at Risk Act when it decided to approve the pipeline expansion a second time in June 2019, arguing the project would harm the highly endangered southern resident killer whales. The [Read more]
Horgan says pipeline protests at B.C. legislature ‘counterproductive’
VICTORIA - B.C. Premier John Horgan questions what is being achieved by ongoing protests at the legislature, but he won't ask dozens of people camped at the building's ceremonial gates to leave. Horgan made the comments following a rally today by University of Victoria students who walked out of classes to attend the gathering in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. About 250 students were at the legislature to support the campers who say they will stay until pipeline company Coastal [Read more]
Advocacy groups, First Nations to weigh in on Alberta environmental review case
CALGARY - Alberta's top court is allowing a dozen submissions to be heard from advocacy groups and First Nations in the province's constitutional challenge to Ottawa's revamped environmental assessment rules Alberta's United Conservative government has argued no new pipelines would be built under the Impact Assessment Act, part of the contentious Bill C-69. It filed its challenge to the Alberta Court of Appeal last fall asking whether Ottawa was within its authority in imposing the new [Read more]
Undetected cracks blamed for Enbridge gas pipeline blast in B.C. in 2018
CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says cracks that went undetected by the operator led to an Enbridge Inc. natural gas pipeline rupture that resulted in an explosion and fire northeast of Prince George, B.C., in October 2018. No one was injured in the incident but 125 people in a two-kilometre radius were evacuated as a precaution and the outage led to province-wide natural gas shortages and conservation efforts through the winter. In its final report, the federal agency [Read more]
Elected Wet’suwet’en councillor calls for inclusivity in consensus building over deal
VANCOUVER - A Wet'suwet'en elected councillor says she has "high hopes" that internal conflict over governance issues and a pipeline can be resolved respectfully but she's also concerned some members will not have a chance to participate in the decision on a proposed deal. Karen Ogen-Toews, a councillor of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, said six elected councils have historically been excluded from negotiations over land rights and she hopes all Wet'suwet'en people have their say before [Read more]
Suncor files application for base oilsands mine extension with federal agency
CALGARY - The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is inviting public and Indigenous comment on a Suncor Energy Inc. project to open a new mine in order to extend the life of its base oilsands processing facilities near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. The agency, which replaced the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency last summer, says written comments will be accepted until March 23 to support the preparation of a summary of issues to be provided to Suncor. It says those issues will [Read more]
Quebec activists maintain rail blockades despite tentative deal in B.C.
MONTREAL - Protesters in two regions of Quebec are maintaining their rail blockades for the time being in spite of a draft deal reached Sunday in British Columbia between Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and senior government ministers. Kenneth Deer, the secretary of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake, says the community will meet later today to discuss whether to dismantle the blockade they've maintained on their territory south of Montreal since Feb. 8. Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and [Read more]
Wet’suwet’en supporters of pipeline don’t think their message is being heard
SMITHERS, B.C. - Bonnie George walked out of the Office of the Wet'suwet'en holding her hands up in the air in a triumphant gesture. Just hours earlier, the Wet'suwet'en matriarch and former Coastal GasLink employee had complained about being locked out of the office and her voice not being heard. Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs were meeting with senior government ministers over a pipeline dispute that's sparked national protests and led to railways and roads being shut down. The talks [Read more]
Pipeline talks with hereditary chiefs set for second day in northern B.C.
SMITHERS, B.C. - The hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en are scheduled to meet for a second day with senior federal and provincial ministers today as they try to break an impasse in a pipeline dispute that's sparked national protests and led to disruptions in the economy. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British Columbia Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser began the long-sought talks Thursday afternoon. They wrapped up after about three hours with [Read more]
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