VICTORIA - The government approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion won't stop efforts in British Columbia to halt the project, protesters gathered outside Victoria's city hall said Saturday. About 300 demonstrators were adamant in their commitment to fight the pipeline twinning project, approved this week by the federal Liberal government, as they prepared to embark on a 22-kilometre march to a beach south of Victoria. Indigenous drummers led the anti-pipeline protest [Read more]
Explosions, fire rock US oil refinery; gas prices could rise
PHILADELPHIA - Explosions and a blaze at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast sent a fireball into the sky and shook homes before dawn Friday, though authorities reported only a few minor injuries and said the air was safe to breathe. The fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex was deemed contained and controlled but continued to burn late Friday afternoon, said Craig Murphy, deputy fire commissioner. The fire broke out around 4 a.m., PES spokeswoman [Read more]
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario criticize passage of federal environment bills
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will fight the passage of two federal environment bills on multiple fronts — starting in court. Kenney says he is filing constitutional challenges to Bill C-48 and Bill C-69 because he believes they unfairly target his oil and gas province. Kenney says Bill C-48, which bans tanker traffic on the northern British Columbia coast, is particularly punitive because there's no such ban on tanker traffic elsewhere in Canada. And he [Read more]
Environmental assessment overhaul, tanker ban bills face final vote in Senate
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's push to make climate change impacts part of the assessment process for new national resource projects faces its final hurdle today. Bill C-69 is back in the Senate for another vote after the House of Commons rejected more than half of the 200-plus amendments proposed by the upper house. Also back in the Senate facing its final decision is Bill C-48, which imposes a ban on oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia. The two [Read more]
Protests, legal challenges planned to block Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion are preparing for a long summer of legal challenges and protests aimed at blocking the project from being built. Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation says it will file a legal challenge in the Federal Court of Appeal and he is confident the First Nation will be successful after Ottawa approved the project on Tuesday. Squamish Nation Coun. Khelsilem says his band is also prepared for legal action and Vancouver [Read more]
B.C. files second legal challenge against Alberta over turn-off-taps law
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has filed a second lawsuit against Alberta over its turn-off-the-taps legislation. A statement of claim filed in Federal Court on June 14 is similar to a document filed last month in Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench that alleges Alberta introduced the bill to inflict economic pain on B.C. by limiting the supply of petroleum products to the province. The claim says Alberta's attorney general brought an application to have the action [Read more]
Finance minister acknowledges skepticism, vows to build Trans Mountain expansion
CALGARY - Canada's finance minister says the best way to convince a skeptical oilpatch that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Ottawa approved Tuesday will actually be built is to go ahead and build it. Bill Morneau told reporters after giving a speech in downtown Calgary that the $7.4-billion project to triple capacity on the line from Edmonton to the West Coast is moving ahead with getting permits. He repeated a commitment made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday [Read more]
Federal cabinet ministers visit Edmonton, Calgary, in wake of TMX approval
EDMONTON - Two federal cabinet ministers are making appearances in Alberta today following the Trudeau government's controversial second approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi is set to visit Trans Mountain Corp.'s terminal in Edmonton, while Finance Minister Bill Morneau will address an Economic Club of Canada breakfast in Calgary. The appearances in oil-rich Alberta come a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave approval to build [Read more]
B.C. First Nation plans legal challenge over Trans Mountain decision
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation is promising a legal challenge of the federal government's decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, while the premier says his government will continue to defend the province's coast. Environment Minister George Heyman told a news conference Tuesday that tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity are at risk from a bitumen spill. "Let me say to British Columbians who value our environment, who cherish [Read more]
Who said what in B.C. about the Liberals’ decision to green light Trans Mountain
VICTORIA - Here is some of the reaction in British Columbia to the decision by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion: "Today's decision by the federal government sends a clear message to John Horgan and the NDP: The time for obstruction is over — their government needs to get out of the way and support this project." — B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson. ___ "It's a very sad day for B.C., for Canada, and I think Mr. [Read more]
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