{"id":295,"date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/uncategorized\/295\/greenpeace-canada-responds-to-federal-governments-willingness-to-indemnify-trans-mountain-expansion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:22:14","slug":"greenpeace-canada-responds-to-federal-governments-willingness-to-indemnify-trans-mountain-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/295\/greenpeace-canada-responds-to-federal-governments-willingness-to-indemnify-trans-mountain-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Canada responds to federal government&#8217;s willingness to indemnify Trans Mountain Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16 May 2018 (VANCOUVER) \u2014<\/strong> In response to the federal government\u2019s announcement that it is willing to indemnify the Trans Mountain Expansion Project against risks posed by opposition from the B.C. government, Greenpeace Canada Climate &amp; Energy Campaigner Mike Hudema said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like not even Kinder Morgan wants to move forward with this destructive project. Signing a taxpayer-backed blank cheque with Kinder Morgan\u2019s name on it is the definition of throwing good money after bad and Canadians shouldn\u2019t be on the hook for the big losses this project will likely incur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risks facing this project go far beyond the B.C. government, and Kinder Morgan knows it. Those risks include legal challenges from First Nations, environmental groups and municipal governments, potential legislation in the U.S., along with growing on-the-ground opposition from Land and Water Protectors willing to face arrest to stop this project \u2014 from Vancouver to Seattle to Quebec, and beyond. This project isn\u2019t moving forward. The federal government should cut their losses not double down on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-30-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Firempong, Greenpeace Canada, 778-996-6549, <a href=\"mailto:jesse.firempong@greenpeace.org\">jesse.firempong@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 May 2018 (VANCOUVER) \u2014 In response to the federal government\u2019s announcement that it is willing to indemnify the Trans Mountain Expansion Project against risks posed by opposition from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71145,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/71145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}