Friday, July 06, 2018

If It's Good Enough for Kinder Morgan, It's Fair Enough for the Liberal Government




Kinder Morgan dodged a bullet when it flogged the TransMountain pipeline to the Trudeau government for a handsome 640 per cent return. The bullet had been fired by KM's own shareholders.
A milestone in the investor-led revolution came at the May 9 annual general meeting of Kinder Morgan, the U.S. energy infrastructure giant that wanted to build the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the company’s terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the guck would be shipped to Asia (in June, the Canadian government nationalized the stalled project). At the meeting, shareholders delivered a wake-up call to the company by passing two environmental resolutions, both of which the company had strenuously resisted. 
The first simply demanded improvements in Kinder Morgan’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, or sustainability reporting. The second was the biggie. The resolution requested that by 2019, Kinder Morgan produce a detailed report on the impact of its business on the internationally recognized goal of limiting the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius (that was the main agreement of the 2015 Paris climate change accord, which was signed by most countries, including Canada). The so-called two-degree scenario (2DS) resolution also required Kinder Morgan to tell shareholders how it plans to transition to a low-carbon future.
So, if Kinder Morgan shareholders could tell their company to come clean on climate change and its impact on the 2C goal, isn't it time that prime minister Handy accounted to his shareholders, the Canadian public, about how TransMountain will impact that very same goal, especially since he signed Canada on to the programme? Not just the pipeline but the bitumen itself and all the carbon emissions and other contaminants that we're also exporting.

C'mon, Justin. You promised to be accountable. Do some accounting, dammit.

2 comments:

  1. .. my understanding, Mound.. is that Asia is not the destination for Dilbit.
    It will go to Washington State for upgrade & refining
    and sell back to Canada as refined products..
    or California.. and wend its way to the Gulf Coast
    Same deal.. extract the 33% that is diluent
    crack the remainder down for pavement
    or various components. They love the cheap price
    of this sulphur heavy hybrid..

    And somewhere down the road
    The foreign owned Big Energy Dilbit multinationals
    with sell their operations into shell companies
    and just walk away from the tar sands tailing ponds
    and related toxic lands and facilities

    And no.. the buffalo will not roam
    And Canadians will be presented with the bill
    The same applies to active or dead wells
    all the fracking and its toxic fluids & poisoned waters
    wells leaking methane and CO2, and radioactive Boron

    World Class Ripoff.. & Sellout headed our way

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  2. Sal, I fear you're right, operative word "fear."

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