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Trans Mountain Pipeline

People Will Want Demand Our Pipelines: Kinder Morgan

CBC | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada British Columbia

The oilsands industry is going to be demanding more pipelines across Western Canada in the next decade, even if three proposed projects get built, the...

Is Kinder Morgan Better Than Enbridge?

Ben West | Posted 02.04.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Ben West

Kinder Morgan would like us to believe that their Trans Mountain pipeline project in British Columbia is a better proposal than the one Enbridge has put forward, and that they're a more responsible company. Of course, as a climate activist I don't see any oil company proposing to expand oil consumption as playing a positive role in today's day and age. But given all of Enbridge's bungling as of late, some folks may be swayed by this argument.

An Oil Spill 'Perfect Storm'

Ben West | Posted 12.13.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Ben West

As our government proposes that we become a "super highway" for oil tankers they are simultaneously reducing both the prevention and the response capacity to deal with an accident in what is already Canada's busiest port. This represents a perfect storm of the conditions that could lead to an oil spill.

First Nation Band Hopes To Leave Pipeline Expansion Dead In Water

CP | Jeremy Nuttall, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.31.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - When a geyser spewed black oil across a Vancouver-area neighbourhood in 2007, the result of a punctured pipeline, members of the Tsleil-Wa...

B.C. Will Reap Most From Pipelines: Study

CBC | Posted 10.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia

New research looking at the economic payoff of two major pipelines suggests B.C. could be the big winner. Calgary-based Canadian Energy R...

An Oil Spill Off BC Won't be Able to Control Itself

Chris Genovali | Posted 10.02.2012 | Canada
Chris Genovali

Has there ever been a successful clean up from a massive tanker spill? Should an accident occur involving a large ship, serious inadequacies in B.C.'s response capabilities would hinder rescue and containment operations. And oil spill technology only works in ideal conditions with very little wind and waves; the behavior of diluted bitumen in the ocean is a complete unknown.

Guess Which Province Gets The Least Pipeline Revenue

CP | Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.30.2012 | Canada Politics

VANCOUVER - Based on straight math, British Columbians shouldn't be surprised to learn they will draw far fewer economic benefits than Alberta — or ...

B.C. Wants More

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.29.2012 | Canada Business

British Columbia's demands for a greater share of revenue and better spill response from Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) should the proposed Northern Gateway...

$5-Billion Pipeline Expansion In The Works

CBC | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Business

The Kinder Morgan pipeline company is rolling out plans to spend $5 billion to nearly triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline ...

Houses Showered In Crude Oil, Three Companies Plead Guilty

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.03.2011 | Canada Business

VANCOUVER - Three companies connected to a burst pipeline that showered a Vancouver-area neighbourhood with black crude oil pleaded guilty Monday to e...