Vancouver oil spill creates job for clean-up company owned by oil companies

Published April 13, 2015

Is Kinder Morgan right? Could oil spills really be “good for the economy”? No, of course not. But ironically, it was Western Canada Marine Response Corporation — a private oil spill clean-up company whose majority owner is Kinder Morgan (minority owners include four major oil companies: Suncor, Chevron, Shell Canada and Imperial Oil) — who got the call for the job of […]

5 posts that shifted the debate in 2014

Published December 29, 2014

With our first full year behind us, we count down our top 5 posts that made a difference in 2014. These original stories helped shape both the news stories and political conversations. Kinder Morgan says oil spills can be good for the economy We put Kinder Morgan in the media hot seat — both north and […]

Watch Rachel Maddow rip Kinder Morgan to shreds over “oil spills create jobs” argument

Published May 4, 2014

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was gobsmacked over the weekend after reading this gem about Kinder Morgan: in its application to Canada’s National Energy Board to triple the size of the Trans Mountain pipeline, the company argued that oil spills can be good for the economy. It all started with a PressProgress story that flagged this passage […]

Kinder Morgan says oil spills can be good for the economy

Published April 30, 2014

Kinder Morgan has managed to find a silver lining in oil slicks: they could create jobs. That’s according to a 15,000 page application Kinder Morgan has submitted to the National Energy Board for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (a document so large that it “stands over two metres tall and fills 37 binders”). In a section of the application dedicated to the […]

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Vancouver oil spill creates job for clean-up company owned by oil companies

5 posts that shifted the debate in 2014

Watch Rachel Maddow rip Kinder Morgan to shreds over “oil spills create jobs” argument

Kinder Morgan says oil spills can be good for the economy