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Alberta has just taken a major step towards making its pipeline dreams come true. On Thursday night, Premier Danielle Smith unveiled her government’s pitch to build a pipeline to the West Coast through southern B.C. The proposal submitted to the federal government’s Major Projects Office would follow the same route as the Trans Mountain pipeline...

Alberta has just taken a major step towards making its pipeline dreams come true. On Thursday night, Premier Danielle Smith unveiled her government’s pitch to build a pipeline to the West Coast through southern B.C. The proposal submitted to the federal government’s Major Projects Office would follow the same route as the Trans Mountain pipeline...

The Alberta government and Ottawa have agreed on a new oil pipeline from Alberta to southern B.C. The province would partner with the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation and Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corporation for the project, which has a price tag of more than $35 billion. Global News Morning Edmonton spoke about the announcement with...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have unveiled plans for a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia’s south coast. The project, backed by the federal government, Trans Mountain and Pembina Pipeline, would ship more than one million barrels of oil per day to overseas markets if approved. Erik Bay reports.

Just over a year since the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline officially opened, a new report suggests it’s beginning to chip away at its costly $34 billion price tag. Rory Johnston, a global commodities markets expert with the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, joins us with some insight.

It is a mega project that sparked years of controversy, was over budget, and finished behind schedule. Now, a little more than a year after it officially opened, we’re getting our first up-close look at the massive Trans Mountain Pipeline operation. Richard Zussman reports.

In the year since its expansion, the Trans Mountain Pipeline has been moving double the amount of oil. The B.C. government was initially opposed to the project, but as Aaron McArthur reports, it’s now supporting a proposal allowing tankers to carry more oil through B.C. waters.

A Langley Township councillor who owns and operates a farm next to a Trans Mountain pipeline worksite fears the construction is causing the ground on and around his property to sink. Kristen Robinson reports.

A new petition calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be more transparent about the true costs of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Richard Zussman reports.

Speaking to reporters in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government is moving slowly and carefully on the approval process for the Trans Mountain Pipeline, purchased by the federal government in 2018 for a cost of $4.5 billion CDN, because it “needs to be done right.”

Calgarians were hit by some of the highest inflation rates in the country last month. With shootings at historic levels, the City of Calgary is seeking assistance from the federal government. And the federally-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will end up losing money.

In response to a UN Committee’s (CERD) letter, two B.C. First Nations are demanding the suspension of some pipeline projects. The Wet’suwet’en and Secwepemc Nations said they want the Coast GasLink and Trans Mountain Pipeline projects to be suspended immediately. The Nations also demanded the RCMP (CIRG) withdraw from their lands.

Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is underway, but the company is concerned the recent protests over the Coastal Gaslink pipeline may inspire similar acts of civil disobedience. Heather Yourex-West explains how Trans Mountain is preparing.

Speaking Wednesday in Ottawa, NDP MP and federal environment critic Laurel Collins called the Trans Mountain pipeline project “Trudeau’s pipe-dream” in a joint press conference with other political party leaders. Collins labeled the project a “sinking ship” and urged the federal government not to commit any more public money to the pipeline, purchased by the...

Our political panel weighs in on some of the week’s top political stories including the Supreme Court’s rejection of B.C.’s Trans Mountain pipeline appeal.

Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage said word that pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be in the ground before Christmas is an “exciting step forward” on the project.

Tuesday marked a major milestone in the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. As Breanna Karstens-Smith reports, 2,200 employees got to work.

The Federal Court of Appeals has allowed six First Nations to proceed with legal challenges of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Blake Lough reports.

Thu, Sep 5: Dennis McConaghy, Canadian energy executive and author of Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future, joins Global News Morning Calgary with his take on the Federal Court of Appeal’s latest ruling over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer said on Monday that he had “nothing to learn” from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Indigenous issues, criticizing him for “firing” former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, and the purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline.