U.S.-owned Kinder Morgan Canada Co. didn’t wait for regulatory approval before disrupting salmon and trout spawning in several rivers it plans to cross with its controversial expansion of the Trans Mountain diluted bitumen pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver.
Last month, biologists working for Kinder Morgan “laid plastic fencing on the bottom of some sections of five streams,” the Financial Post reports, “in preparation for pipeline construction there in early 2018.” The company planned to lay similar mats cut from plastic snow-fencing, to deter fish from spawning in sections of 21 other streams in British Columbia and Alberta.
Citing a letter posted on the National Energy Board (NEB) website, the Post says the regulator has ordered the company “to stop installing the mats until it has obtained all approvals from the board to allow the start of construction in those areas.”
It was only the latest regulatory reprimand for the project.
Last month, the NEB warned the Houston-based pipeliner not to begin construction on its $7.4-billion “expansion”—in reality, a replacement of a legacy line along a different route—until it had fulfilled all the conditions the agency set when it approved the line last year. Until August 30, Kinder Morgan had met only 27 of 49 conditions required to begin construction of its Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C. earlier this month, the NEB ordered new hearings on some of the new line’s planned deviations from its original course.
Dave Ferguson 
Jordan 
Susan 
Stop work? These bastards should be locked up.
It’s the American way! Rampant capitalism which says “my project shall not be deterred by any regulations or other concerns.
It’s the slippery slope of U.S.A. running Canada… just like they’re trying to do with NAFTA.
With all the local politicians (the ones really trying to serve the people most affected) dead set against it, how can the 10 gal hat crowd just walk in and take over? Democracy and soverignty? Gone to hell.
Sorry we in the US have a really crappy government right now. It has been pretty crappy for a long time. Please fight against the rampant capitalism (just as many are doing here in the US) as it is truly neither the “American Dream” nor is it in the best interests of the planet. Thanks.
Hello Folks,
How about we jump start a renewable energy planet by beating the fossil fuel industry in their own game.
“Somethings happening here” and what it is ,is exactly clear”
The time to Strike Is Now!
Here’s something to think about:
Imagine if Bill Gates and a number of national or international clean energy investors got together to make Puerto Rico one of the 1st completely Solar/Clean Energy
Locations in the northern Hemisphere. There isn’t a better time to demand this to occur for Puerto Ricos’ future and that of the planet. We need to cut off the fossil fuel investment
Cut off the fossil fuel henchmen salivating at the current situation there. They are waiting to step in, privatize the entire energy system, and everything else for that matter.
Are there any here IN YOUR ORGANIZATIONs that will, can step up to the plate to demand national/ international cooperative venture -organizations to assist Puerto Rico / and these prime solar islands become all clean solar energy oasis. COP23 could be a good place to begin. We need to be diligent and ask “ why not? ” Puerto Ricos Total infrastructure is gone. What’s needed is a rapid transition of investment that secures a clean energy future with economic fairness for the people of Puerto Rico. Not a fossil fuel / Capitalist divide conquer and displacement of a people, that could loose everything if/when they leave.
Cliff Krolick
CLIMATE ACTION Team
Sierra Club Maine
BACK COUNTRY EXCURSIONS
MAINE
What is their excuse they cnt say they dnt have the $ for as if they really want people follow the rules