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What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans
What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans Kinder Morgan, the company currently seeking permission to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline to carry Albertan crude to the west coast, has engaged in a protracted fight with the province of British Columbia in an effort to keep its […]
Kitamaat Village evacuated after 3 days without power due to near record snowfall
Kitamaat Village evacuated after 3 days without power due to near record snowfall Residents had to cut through fallen trees with chainsaws to gain road access B.C.’s Haisla First Nation ordered the evacuation of Kitamaat Village and its 800 residents on Saturday night, three days after the community lost power following a major snowstorm. Many residents are staying at […]
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines
Alaskans Ring Alarm Bells Over Potential for More Mount Polley Disasters As B.C. Pushes Forward With New Mines Worried Alaskans who fear lucrative fisheries and tourism industries are at risk from lax B.C. oversight of mine safety are meeting with state officials next week to ask the U.S. State Department to push for more input on mine development along […]
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record? Hydraulic fracturing, a technology used to crack open difficult oil and gas formations, appears to have set off a swarm of earthquakes near Fox Creek, Alberta, including a record-breaking tremor with a felt magnitude of 4.4 last week. That would likely make it the largest felt […]
Tanking Asia Gas Prices Makes BC LNG ‘Not Viable,’ Expert Says
Tanking Asia Gas Prices Makes BC LNG ‘Not Viable,’ Expert Says A liquified natural gas industry, as currently promoted by British Columbia’s Liberal government, is not viable at current natural gas prices, and the proposed industry tax regime actually “gives a subsidy to the LNG industry,” according to a royalty expert. Jim Roy, a former […]
B.C. Child’s Death Linked To Enterovirus D68
B.C. Child’s Death Linked To Enterovirus D68. VANCOUVER – The death of a B.C. child has become the third fatality in the province linked to the enterovirus D68 infection. Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an infectious disease specialist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, said Saturday the child was under the age of five when it […]
B.C. avian flu virus has Asian origin new to North America – British Columbia – CBC News
B.C. avian flu virus has Asian origin new to North America – British Columbia – CBC News. The avian flu virus involved in an outbreak in British Columbia is related to a deadly strain that has spread through Asia and is now affecting North American poultry for the first time, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency […]
B.C. KSM Gold Mine Gets Environmental Approval From Federal Government
B.C. KSM Gold Mine Gets Environmental Approval From Federal Government. The federal government approved the environmental assessment application on Friday for the massive KSM gold and copper mine in northwestern British Columbia near the Alaska border. The mine, which is owned by Seabridge Gold Inc., is considered the largest undeveloped gold reserve in the world […]
Site C dam approved by B.C. government – British Columbia – CBC News
Site C dam approved by B.C. government – British Columbia – CBC News. B.C. has approved the $9 billion Site C dam — a massive hydroelectric project that would flood a large area of the Peace River Valley in northeastern B.C. In making the announcement, Premier Christy Clark said the Site C Clean Energy Project will provide B.C. […]
Is The Canadian LNG Export Dream Dead?
Is The Canadian LNG Export Dream Dead?. Lower oil prices have killed off major plans for liquefied natural gas exports from Canada’s west coast. On December 2 the state-owned oil company of Malaysia, Petronas, decided to shelve plans to build an enormous LNG export terminal in British Columbia, citing the falling price of oil. It is common […]
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line. VANCOUVER – About a dozen more people have been arrested at a pipeline protest in a conservation area in Vancouver. The protesters were taken away Saturday after crossing a police line on Burnaby Mountain, where crews have been conducting survey work for the […]
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue. BURNABY, B.C. – First Nations vowed to stand in unity with protesters as police kept up arrests Friday in a Metro Vancouver conservation area where crews resumed survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Shortly after activists announced they would do whatever […]
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute. It’s been hailed as an environmental and economic “success,” a “textbook case” in carbon pricing and “on the right track” toward good economic policy. British Columbia’s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it’s working. Here’s the […]
Canada regulator says Kinder Morgan wins battle with B.C. suburb | Canada | Reuters
Canada regulator says Kinder Morgan wins battle with B.C. suburb | Canada | Reuters. CALGARY Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s energy regulator ruled on Thursday that Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP must be allowed access to a park in a Vancouver suburb in order to complete technical work for the planned C$5.4 billion($4.81 billion) expansion of its […]
