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Pipe dreams: What you need to know about Canada’s changing pipeline process

January 27, 2016February 1, 2016amp Leave a comment

January 27, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

There will be talking.

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Pipeline politics: Oilsands and the 2015 election

August 29, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News – August 29, 2015

When the federal election kicks into high gear during the final stretch of a marathon campaign, a high-profile case that could change Canadian resource development will play out in a B.C. courtroom.

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Northern Gateway: Could the feds be any less pumped about this pipeline?

June 17, 2014June 22, 2014amp Leave a comment

Northern Gateway Decision 20140617

June 17, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The federal Conservatives gave the green light Tuesday to one of the biggest energy projects out there – a $6.5-billion pipeline promising to open Alberta’s oilsands to the Asian market at the rate of more than half a million barrels a day.

But they seemed awfully sheepish about it.

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Legal challenges could be Northern Gateway’s undoing

December 20, 2013April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

Dec. 20, 2013 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Some time in the next six months, Ottawa will probably give Northern Gateway the go-ahead.

And that’s where it runs into trouble.

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Facing Northern Gateway setback, Enbridge launches charm offensive elsewhere

May 31, 2013August 26, 2013amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News

Douglas Channel, the proposed termination point for an oil pipeline in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, is pictured in an aerial view in Kitimat, B.C., on January 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

British Columbia’s rejection Friday of the Northern Gateway project (or its current incarnation, anyway) is a victory for grassroots opposition and a cautionary tale for the pipeline giant behind it.

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Watching the pipelines: How good are Alberta’s energy regulators?

May 22, 2013August 26, 2013amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News

 Pipeline cleanup after a break northeast of Peace River, Alta., on May 4, 2011.

Pipeline cleanup after a break northeast of Peace River, Alta., on May 4, 2011.

CALGARY AND TORONTO – The cracked pipe sleeve behind the second-biggest oil spill in Alberta’s history had been flagged as a hazard more than two decades earlier by the national regulator responsible for pipeline safety.

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Crude Awakening: Anatomy of an oil spill

May 22, 2013August 26, 2013amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News

In theory, stringent rules mean even the tiniest spill or pipeline damage is reported and dealt with immediately, with checks built in to ensure compliance. In practice, it doesn’t always work that way.

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