Trans Mountain pipeline owner asks regulator to hide identity of its insurers: Federal government-owned Trans Mountain is asking the Canada Energy
Regulator to keep secret the identities of the companies that provide
insurance coverage for its pipeline system because of fears
environmental activists will target them.

In a submission dated Monday, the company that operates the Trans
Mountain pipeline and its expansion project says there is evidence that
“certain parties” are using filings in the regulator’s database to
identify insurers and pressure them to drop their policies for the
pipeline.

The filings come days after Indigenous youth in Vancouver blocked the
entrances of buildings housing insurance companies to demand they stop
insuring the pipeline, resulting in four arrests.

Trans Mountain pipeline owner asks regulator to hide identity of its insurers: Federal government-owned Trans Mountain is asking the Canada Energy
Regulator to keep secret the identities of the companies that provide
insurance coverage for its pipeline system because of fears
environmental activists will target them.In a submission dated Monday, the company that operates the Trans
Mountain pipeline and its expansion project says there is evidence that
“certain parties” are using filings in the regulator’s database to
identify insurers and pressure them to drop their policies for the
pipeline.The filings come days after Indigenous youth in Vancouver blocked the
entrances of buildings housing insurance companies to demand they stop
insuring the pipeline, resulting in four arrests.Read More

Why Canada should invest in ‘macrogrids’ for greener more reliable electricity: In the west, Alberta and Saskatchewan are great locations for
building low-cost wind and solar farms. Enhanced interprovincial
transmission would allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to build more variable
wind and solar, with the assurance that they could receive backup power
from B.C. and Manitoba when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t
shining.

When wind and solar are plentiful, the flow of low cost energy can
reverse to allow B.C. and Manitoba the opportunity to better manage
their hydro reservoir levels. Provinces can only benefit from trading
with each other if we have the infrastructure to make that trade
possible.

Why Canada should invest in ‘macrogrids’ for greener more reliable electricity: In the west, Alberta and Saskatchewan are great locations for
building low-cost wind and solar farms. Enhanced interprovincial
transmission would allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to build more variable
wind and solar, with the assurance that they could receive backup power
from B.C. and Manitoba when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t
shining. When wind and solar are plentiful, the flow of low cost energy can
reverse to allow B.C. and Manitoba the opportunity to better manage
their hydro reservoir levels. Provinces can only benefit from trading
with each other if we have the infrastructure to make that trade
possible.Read More