iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jun 9, 2021 11:40am
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Project Reconciliation, a Canadian Indigenous group, is seeking a full ownership stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, according to the group’s new chairman.
The group is among several Indigenous organizations that formed more than two years ago to seek a stake in Canada’s only oil-pipeline system that delivers crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Until now, Project Reconciliation had sought no more than a 51 per cent stake. Now it’s seeking 75 per cent, with the option to eventually own 100 per cent of the pipeline.
“We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s chairman, told Bloomberg. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing its financing source.
Uniindia: New Delhi/Washington, Jun 9 (UNI) The United States is planning to host the first in-person summit with Australia, India and Japan in Washington in the fall.
U.S. and Australian authorities hacked into an app used by criminals to read millions of encrypted messages, leading to hundreds of arrests of suspected organised crime figures in 18 countries, Australian officials said on Tuesday. "Operation.