Sentences with phrase «conflicts over the pipeline»
«The conflicts over pipelines now have in some way been inspired by Clayoquot Sound, and if there's ever a time when one of the two big pipeline proposals in BC... get approved, I think you'll see a civil disobedience campaign that will dwarf the one that occurred in Clayoquot Sound.»
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On April 8, Kinder Morgan Canada held an unusual Sunday conference call to announce an immediate halt to all non-essential spending on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, threatening to pull the plug on the project completely unless the escalating political conflicts over the pipeline could be resolved by May 31.
Not exact matches
While Trudeau, Notley and other Kinder Morgan cheerleaders cite the Constitution for their claim that B.C. has no jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines, Canadian courts have been much less categorical about paramountcy (the doctrine that federal law automatically prevails when there is a conflict between provincial and federal laws).
The conflict over the oil pipeline construction in North Dakota was under the radar for a while but isn't anymore with recent celebrity and media attention.
Jim Carr, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, recently affirmed Parliament's commitment to seeing the Trans Mountain pipeline expanded, despite the interprovincial conflict over whether the project should proceed.