Kinder Morgan has announced a deal that would see Regina’s Evraz steel mill supply more than 75 per cent of the pipe needed to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline between Alberta and B.C.
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Eagle Spirit Energy has launched GoFundMe account to raise funds for legal effort
Regina Evraz plant to supply pipe for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
CTV News Regina, May 2, 2017RCMP investigate damage to pipeline in northwest Alberta
Pipeline being placed into trench.
Damage is estimated at $500,000 to $700,000, police say
CBC News, January 16, 2017
Police say they are investigating significant damage to an oilfield pipeline under construction in the Hythe area in northwest Alberta.
Beaverlodge RCMP received a report on Sunday about mischief at a pipeline site north of Hythe, Alta. Read the rest of this entry
Pipeline reviews to include environmental regulations, First Nations consultations
Graham Slaughter, CTV News, January 27, 2016
The Liberal government says it is “modernizing” the way Canada reviews pipelines and other resource projects, in a revamped process that considers future greenhouse gas emissions.
The new review process seeks to promote public transparency and provides funding for First Nations consultations.
The Wednesday announcement was described as a “transition step” before the Liberals establish a permanent set of rules. Read the rest of this entry
National Energy Board doing poor job of enforcing pipeline safety
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion: lowering pipes into trench.
by APTN National News, January 26, 2016
OTTAWA – There’s fresh fuel for the raging national pipeline debate as a new audit has found the National Energy Board is failing to track pipeline approval conditions or follow up on compliance problems.
The annual report from federal environment commissioner Julie Gelfand says the Calgary-based board isn’t adequately checking to ensure the safe operation of some 73,000 kilometres of existing oil and gas pipelines operated by about 100 companies. Read the rest of this entry
Province racks up LNG pipeline agreements with 28 First Nations
A liquid natural gas tanker in Australia.
Majority of northern B.C. native groups have signed, but Lax Kw’alaams balking at $1-billion industry-government dea
Video: Karistatsi Onienre: The Iron Snake
Published on Jul 9, 2014 by Clifton Nicholas
The tar sands are the most polluting resource extraction operation in the world today. This film discusses some of the issues surrounding the tar sands and the impending development of pipelines in eastern Canada and pipelines in western Canada to open markets for this dirty energy. This documentary concentrates on the Indigenous struggles against the tar sands and the impending expansion of this operation if the western and eastern pipeline projects succeed. This film was made possible with generous donations film footage of independent filmmakers from submedia.tv and Greenpeace Canada as well as support from Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign and Idle No More Winnipeg.
B.C. home of most pipeline safety incidents since 2000
279 of 1,047 incidents reported Canada-wide from 2000 to late 2012 took place in B.C.
CBC News, Oct 28, 2013
The number of pipeline safety incidents is on the rise in Canada and, of all the provinces and territories, British Columbia had the highest number of reported in the past decade, according to information obtained by CBC News. Read the rest of this entry
Oil shipments by rail up 28,000 per cent since 2009
The Canadian Press, July 7, 2013
Train cars carrying crude oil burn after derailing in Lac Megantic, Quebec, July 2013.
A whopping 28,000 per cent increase in the amount of oil shipped by rail over the past five years is coming under the microscope following the deadly rail blast in Quebec.
Canada’s railways have made a determined push to cash in on the country’s crude-oil bonanza, painting themselves as a cost-effective alternative to politically unpopular pipelines like the proposed Keystone XL. Read the rest of this entry
No Consent? No Pipeline!
Rally at Bank of Montreal meeting supports Yinka Dene Alliance against Enbridge pipeline
by Sandra Cuffe, March 25, 2011, Vancouver Media Coop
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/no-consent-no-pipeline/6749
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – Dozens of people gathered in downtown Vancouver the morning of March 22 to rally against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and to support the Yinka Dene Alliance. Representatives from the Alliance, comprised of five of the more than five dozen First Nations that have publicly declared their opposition to the oil pipeline, voiced their position inside the Bank of Montreal annual general meeting held at the Four Seasons Hotel. Read the rest of this entry
