Kinder Morgan’s dodgy finances

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Timmins—James Bay made a lot of good points about this pipeline. I want to put something to the House that I do not think anyone has raised yet, and that is the financing around this, which is pretty dodgy. We have to remember that Kinder Morgan was founded ...

What’s the government plan after the Federal Court of Appeal rules on Kinder Morgan?

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Elizabeth May’s Week in Review – May 25, 2018

Week in Review: May 22 – 25 Welcome back to Elizabeth May’s parliamentary week in review! This weekly e-newsletter recaps her work in Parliament when the House is in session. Using the links below, you can watch videos of Elizabeth’s interventions in the House, keep up with her media releases, and read articles she has written.  ...

Kinder Morgan and the déja vu politics of the Liberal Party

May 16, 2018 (OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) cringes at déja vu politics. “The Liberals promised change but we keep getting more of the same: Harper-style politics,” said Ms. May. “Now it’s a blank cheque to a Houston based pipeline company. A spectacular violation of a key plank of the Liberals’ 2015 campaign ...

Federal Liberals should step back from promoting Kinder Morgan

April 26, 2018 (OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) says the Liberal government must step back from promoting the Kinder Morgan pipeline amid allegations that it rigged the approval process for the controversial pipeline project. “The Trudeau administration has been failing Canadians on multiple fronts. Numerous studies were ignored both by the National Energy ...

How can we build a pipeline and meet our climate targets?

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, the warnings of climate scientists are becoming increasingly urgent and worrying. The most recent, days ago, was that the world was watching the weakening of the Gulf Stream ocean currents, with potentially catastrophic impacts. The scientists are warning that we must reduce greenhouse gases far more rapidly than our current commitments. ...

Kinder Morgan has far more to worry about than B.C.

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, through you, I address my question to the member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley. This is my first chance to take the floor in the debate tonight. With the indulgence of my friend from Skeena—Bulkley Valley, let me first say that the Minister of Natural Resources misspoke when he said that the Kinder ...

Why don’t we process bitumen within Alberta and use it domestically?

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, although the debate this afternoon is taking us a little far afield from the budget, I want to pick up on the point the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge made. I could not agree more with former premier Frank McKenna that it does not make sense to be importing crude at ...

Tsartlip First Nation has not been consulted at all

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, I am reminded of something I was asked to say by one of my constituents, the Honourable Pat Carney. She used to be the federal minister of energy. She asked me to please mention that there is no oceans protection plan, that there seems to be an oceans protection wish list. ...

When did it become an imperative to refine our oil in other countries instead of here?

Elizabeth May Madam Speaker, this debate takes place in a kind of history-free zone. Hearing from the Conservatives, one would swear that getting bitumen to tidewater had been the campaign of generations. One member may have forgotten the timing. Kinder Morgan was not proposed until 2013. I want to ask my hon. colleague from Durham ...