B.C. holds ‘last obstacle’ before pipeline dream

Metro News interviewed Kathryn Harrison, a UBC political scientist, about a condition of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion that calls for B.C. to receive “a fair share of the fiscal and economic benefits.”

Alberta’s government has said it will not pay B.C. a share of its own resource royalties, which means only Ottawa and Kinder Morgan could potentially help satisfy this condition.

“I don’t know if there’s any precedent for the federal government to pay B.C. to accept a pipeline,” Harrison said. “It’s arguably within federal authority, but I imagine that’s not a precedent they want to set.”