B.C. joins legal battles against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government wants to join the legal fight against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The province’s NDP government has hired former judge Thomas Berger to provide legal advice to the government as it seeks intervener status in legal challenges to the federal government’s approval of the pipeline expansion.
The NDP has opposed the expansion of the pipeline, which received the blessing of the province’s former Liberal government earlier this year.
Premier John Horgan promised in the provincial election this spring to use “every tool in the toolbox” to stop the $7.4-billion project by Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada.