Posts from ‘Kinder Morgan’

Drowning in debt

December 13, 2018 | 

Parsing Trans Mountain’s dire financial situation for its new owners (that’s us!) Debt is a fact of life for most Canadians. If you’ve ever had to pay off credit ...

Podcast for September 2018: We quashed the Trans Mountain pipeline. Now what?

On August 30 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled on fourteen different court cases brought forward against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion’s NEB review process. And they all ...

Lies and losses

September 11, 2018 | 

Trudeau’s broken promises loom large in federal court decision Last month’s Federal Court of Appeal ruling dealt a crushing blow to the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker expansion. The ...

From cynicism to connection

September 6, 2018 | 

Summer student organizer Maddie Hague reflects on a summer of social change This summer my friend asked how I liked my new summer job as a Dogwood Organizer. I ...

“Fundamentally wrong to put people at this sort of risk”

July 24, 2018 | 

Westridge resident shares her experience with the Trans Mountain 2007 oil spill On July 24, 2007, Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline ruptured, spilling more than 200,000 litres of heavy ...

Target practice

July 23, 2018 | 

Thousands cheer online for activists to be murdered. How long before someone takes it literally? “Next time just cut the cables,” wrote 67-year old John Les on Facebook. He ...

Why B.C. needs to fix its environmental assessment laws

July 19, 2018 | 

Citizens have until July 30 to comment on proposed overhaul of project reviews What do the Trans Mountain pipeline, a toxic waste dump at Shawnigan Lake, the Site C ...

Who defaced our flyers in North Van?

July 11, 2018 | 

MPs are sick of hearing what you think about their Texas pipeline bailout Remember “Real Change, Now”? It’s what North Shore voters believed we were getting when Liberal candidates ...

Five things you should know about Morneau’s Trans Mountain buyout

Now that you, as a Canadian taxpayer, are a pipeline owner… For months, Texas-based pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has been hinting their pipeline and oil tanker proposal on the ...