CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says a decision by the city of Burnaby, B.C., to take its fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to the Supreme Court is showboating. The city has said it will ask the country's highest court for leave to appeal a lower court ruling last week. The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a bid by Burnaby and the B.C. government to challenge a National Energy Board decision that cleared the way for Kinder Morgan to bypass local bylaws during [Read more]
B.C. city to take Trans Mountain pipeline fight to Supreme Court of Canada
BURNABY, B.C. - The City of Burnaby is turning to Canada's highest court in the dispute over construction of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Mayor Derek Corrigan said Tuesday the city plans to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to consider a lower court decision that denied Burnaby leave to appeal a ruling by the National Energy Board. That ruling allowed Kinder Morgan to bypass local bylaws during construction of the pipeline expansion, which will triple the amount of diluted [Read more]
N.L. to release budget expected to include plan for carbon taxes, education
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador will bring down its latest budget today. Dwight Ball's Liberal government will unveil a financial plan that's expected to include details on how the province intends to address carbon taxes and federal government regulations to reduce greenhouse gases. The provincial government has so far said little about how carbon taxes will be implemented and who will have to pay, making it one of the last provinces to announce its carbon pricing [Read more]
Husky faces charges from 2016 oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River
CALGARY - A Saskatchewan mayor whose city's water supply was interrupted for several weeks following a Husky Energy Inc. oil pipeline leak in July 2016 says he hopes provincial charges announced Monday act as a deterrent for other pipeline firms. Prince Albert Mayor Greg Dionne said the incident on the North Saskatchewan River made him more aware of the danger from the many pipelines that criss-cross the province. "Now that I know there are more pipelines than I ever assumed [Read more]
Alberta declares ‘definitive victory’ on Trans Mountain appeal in federal court
ST. ALBERT, Alta. - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is calling a recent court decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project a definitive victory. The Federal Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed the B.C. government's bid to challenge a National Energy Board ruling that allows Kinder Morgan Canada to bypass local bylaws during construction of the pipeline expansion which would triple the amount of crude flowing from Alberta to a port facility in Burnaby, B.C. The court [Read more]
Better times in the oilpatch fail to impress stock market investors
CALGARY - Prospects are looking brighter in the Canadian oilpatch as commodity price increases drive higher profits and afford companies room to offer dividend hikes and share buybacks — but slumping stock prices show that the oil and gas sector remains in the penalty box with investors. It's getting so bad that not even Canadian institutional investors can be convinced to buy Canadian energy company shares, says Grant Fagerheim, CEO of Calgary-based Whitecap Resources Inc. "We want to get [Read more]
Alberta’s stance on caribou a ‘national test case’ of Species at Risk Act
EDMONTON - A caribou researcher says Alberta's decision to suspend portions of its draft plan to help the threatened animals recover is the first major test of the federal Species at Risk Act. The province has sent Ottawa a letter that raises concerns about the socio-economic impacts of the recovery plan. "It's a bit surprising and dramatic but it's actually not, really," said University of Montana biologist Mark Hebblewhite, who is part of a science advisory group on boreal [Read more]
Anti-pipeline protests continue in Burnaby, B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. - Anti-pipeline protesters are continuing to demonstrate near Kinder Morgan's terminal in Burnaby, B.C., today. Dozens of people followed Indigenous leaders in a march toward a gate to the Burnaby Terminal, with organizers saying more than 70 of them were prepared to be arrested. Protesters who tie themselves to the gate are violating a court injunction prohibiting them from five metres of the site and risk arrest. About 115 people, including Green Party [Read more]
Green Party leader, NDP MP arrested at anti-pipeline protest in B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and a New Democrat MP were arrested Friday at a protest against Kinder Morgan's expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia. May and New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart acknowledged they risked arrest by joining activists at a Trans Mountain pipeline terminal in Burnaby after the B.C. Supreme Court placed limits on where demonstrators could protest. As she was led away by police, May said the permits issued for the [Read more]
Western Canadian gas producers applaud B.C. LNG industry incentives
CALGARY - B.C. government tax incentives aimed at jump-starting the much-delayed West Coast LNG industry are being welcomed by Western Canada's hard-hit natural gas industry as a potential path to higher prices and better markets for their products. The government said Thursday it hopes its moves will result in a positive investment decision later this year for the $40-billion LNG Canada liquefied natural gas export terminal, pipelines and infrastructure which was delayed in 2016 by [Read more]
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