Joe Oliver, the Minister of Natural Resources, has confirmed that the federal government intends to make Kitimat a public port. Oliver was in Terrace, March 19, 2013, to announce the appointment of Vancouver lawyer Douglas Eyford as "Special Federal Representative on West Coast Energy Infrastructure." Eyford's job will be to "engage aboriginal communities in British […]
The federal government outlined new tanker safety measures in Vancouver Monday, measures aimed at increasing support for the Enbridge Northern Gateway project and the Kinder Morgan pipeline twinning projects. The detailed announcement as it appears on the Transport Canada website (as of 2250 PT Monday March 18) seems to redesignate the port of Kitimat, which has […]
Both the province of British Columbia and the Haisla Nation have filed strong objections with the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel about the panel's plans to bypass Kitimat for the questioning and final argument phases of its examination of the controversial pipeline project. At present, the Joint Review Panel plans to hold questioning hearings in […]
The Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel questioning hearings and final arguments will bypass Kitimat and most of the communities along the proposed pipeline route, according to a letter to all intervenors from the JRP prompted by questions from the Gitxaala Nation. The Joint Review Panel has not yet issued an official and final procedural directive […]
The members of the Northern Gateway Joint Review panel and Stephen Harper's cabinet, especially Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, should take a lesson from the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster and today's parliamentary debate on the Leveson inquiry into the phone hacking scandal centered around Rupert Murdoch's News International. Fortunately for the United Kingdom, by […]
The Northern Gateway Joint Review process has been “utterly destroyed” by the Conservative government, Skeena Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen told reporters Friday, April 20, adding a warning those who were waiting for the JRP to complete its hearings before making up their minds, “all those people like the premier and others who said […]
The Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, has confirmed the approval of the 20 year export licence for the BC LNG Export Cooperative. The National Energy Board had approved the licence in February. Earlier the government had also approved the export for the KM LNG project. In a statement, Oliver said, "This export licence is […]
You can expect a newspaper in Alberta to support the oil-patch, that's a major part of its audience, its advertising market, its mandate. A newspaper supporting local industry is perfectly fine in a free and democratic society. The question has to be asked: does that support include juvenile name calling, worthy of a spoiled 13-year-old? […]
Green Party leader Elizabeth May has issued her own open letter, countering one issued earlier by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, where Oliver claimed that "radicals" opposing the Northern Gateway pipeline were a threat to the Canadian economy. May calls Oliver's letter a "hyperbolic rant" and says his office has been "hijacked" by the Prime […]
The Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, released a stinging open letter on Monday, January 9, 2012, accusing what he called "enviromentaists and other radical groups" of blocking Canada's opportunity to diversify trade and hijacking the regulatory system. The release of the letter and an interview with Oliver came day before Joint Review Panel hearings […]