Tag: The Kinder-Morgan Standoff

If Justin Trudeau is to be believed, the Canadian government is going to take an equity stake in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline. Andrew Nikiforuk suggests that we should take a good look at Kinder-Morgan’s history and balance sheet before making any such investment: Kinder Morgan, which runs what founder

In the wake of the stand off over the Kinder-Morgan pipeline, Paul Krugman provides some important economic insights: Not that long ago, calls for a move to wind and solar power were widely perceived as impractical if not hippie-dippy silly. Some of that contempt lingers; my sense is that many politicians

Yesterday’s meeting between Justin Trudeau, John Horgan and Rachel Notley does not bode well for the future. Michael Harris writes: Whatever side you take on Kinder Morgan’s plan to triple its pipeline capacity from Alberta through B.C. to tidewater, a bomb is about to go off in Canadian politics. There

Tom Walkom writes that, when it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline, the Trudeau government has the law and the constitution on its side: The proposed Trans Mountain heavy-oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast has law, economics and the Constitution on its side. It has been approved by

The standoff between Alberta and British Columbia has put Justin Trudeau in a bind. But he put himself in that bind before the governments of the two provinces decided to go to war over the Kinder-Morgan pipeline. Trudeau argued that pipelines could be built if Canadians paid a carbon tax.