Here’s what you don’t know about Kinder Morgan

Guest Column/ Elizabeth May Policy Magazine   When Canadians used to speak of two solitudes, it meant the divide between Quebec and the rest of Canada. Increasingly, I feel that I live in a different country, only the dividing line is the Rockies, and the cultural disconnect is over the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Here is ...

ENVI Committee, March 22: Is this the minimum level of federal review as required by the Minister’s mandate letter?

Elizabeth May I want to start by thanking Darren and other Liberal members of the committee who agreed to allow me to put a question to the minister. I thank both ministers for being here. Preparing for this morning, I reviewed your mandate letters and found that the Prime Minister used identical language in the ...

Energy Agencies have no business in Environmental Assessments

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, I am speaking tonight in adjournment proceedings and the timing is almost impossible to believe. On October 20, I attempted to warn the Minister of Environment and the Prime Minister of how very dangerous it would be to give the offshore petroleum boards in Atlantic Canada any power or role in ...

Government disappoints with environmental protections legislation

(OTTAWA) February 8, 2018 — Elizabeth May is disappointed by the Liberal government’s failure to repair the serious damage caused by Harper-era omnibus budget bills C-38 and C-45, which gutted crucial environmental protections. The government’s own omnibus bill — An Act to Enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend ...

What is the basis for claiming Kinder Morgan is a major job creator?

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, there have been a lot of claims made, even here today in the House, about the jobs that would be created by Kinder Morgan, but there is no evidence to back up those claims. There is no evidence because the National Energy Board refused to hear the evidence of Unifor. The ...

We need a comprehensive plan to meet our Paris target

Elizabeth May Madam Speaker, I rise tonight at adjournment proceedings to review a question and a response I received on October 4, 2017. It relates to the challenge of climate change. My question was for the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister did rise and provide a response, but it was not entirely to the point ...

A statement condemning proposed carbon tax break for big greenhouse gas emitters

January 16, 2018 (OTTAWA) — The Liberal government is weakening the national carbon pricing system to give breaks to Canada’s major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters. “Reducing the responsibility of the biggest polluters is simply irresponsible,” said Elizabeth May. “The Pan-Canadian Framework, negotiated by the federal government with the provinces and territories, is already weak. It is ...

Private Member’s Bill, C-387: A legislative framework for VIA Rail Canada

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, this bill is very similar to one introduced earlier this session by the hon. member for London—Fanshawe. It carries some of the same characteristics, but it is different. I have been working on it for some time, because VIA Rail lacks the legislative framework, a context within which we can ensure ...

Elizabeth at COP 23

Climate action as a technical slow motion process November 14, 2017 This is an in between sort of COP. I have said for years that there are “good cops and bad cops.” This one is a pun waiting to happen, taken from the great Quebecois film “Bon Cop; Bad Cop.” This COP is the first ...

Press Conference: COP 23, UN Climate Conference in Bonn

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