The possible effects of a bitumen spill on Pacific waters were not considered in the oil response preparedness report released last week by the Harper government, the background data study reveals. The consulting firm that did the study for Transport Canada, Genivar Inc, had no reliable data on the effect of a bitumen […]
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The list of participants in the oil spill preparedness and response study released last week by the federal government shows two glaring no shows, the District of Kitimat and Rio Tinto Alcan. The Haisla Nation and the Gitga'at Nation did provide written submissions to the panel. The expert panel was set up by the federal […]
Kinder Morgan has filed a last minute objection to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel's preliminary conditions for the Enbridge project. One of the objections from Kinder Morgan is the provision in the JRP's proposed Gateway conditions for “purpose built tugs” to escort tankers (a measure that Enbridge has proposed for the Gateway project). Another […]
The Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel has released an updated schedule for the “Questioning Hearings” in Prince Rupert,which will cover maritime issues and for the public comment sessions in Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna. The comment hearings in Victoria will take place from January 3 to January 12, 2013, in Vancouver from January 14 to January […]
An anonymous group opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is calling for a demonstration at the site of an oil and gas export conference in Vancouver on May 30 and 31 and asking participants to wear the red square that has become symbolic of the Quebec student protests first against tuition fee hikes and later […]
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 […]
EDITORIAL Who speaks for Kitimat? Someone has to speak for Kitimat on the Northern Gateway project. The District of Kitimat Council no longer has a choice. It's time to play hardball with Ottawa and Enbridge on the Northern Gateway Pipeline. You can't negotiate from a position of weakness. The game of pipelines changed forever in […]
Kinder Morgan, of Houston, Texas, said Thursday, April 12, 2012, it plans to proceed with expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system from Alberta to the BC Lower Mainland. The company made the announcement after what the energy industry calls an “open season,” a search for customers where it received “strong binding commitments” from existing […]
Kinder Morgan aims to expand Trans Mountain pipeline: Globe and Mail
October 25, 2011
Energy Link Nathan Vanderklippe writes in The Globe and Mail Kinder Morgan aims to expand Trans Mountain pipeline A second project has been launched to carry major new volumes of oil-sands crude to Pacific waters, amid mounting industry interest in exporting Canadian oil to Asia. Kinder Morgan Canada has begun accepting bids from companies prepared […]
Seattle Times Canadian oil boom may bring many more tankers to Northwest waters [F]ights over Canada's oil sands could have an impact much closer to home. One company is hoping to boost oil-sands shipments to Asia through Northwest waters -- plans that would quadruple tanker traffic through Vancouver, B.C., and dramatically increase the amount of […]