TransCanada Corp. has announced plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help deliver natural gas to an LNG project proposed by Chevron and Apache near Kitimat.  The Calgary-based company now has four major natural gas pipelines planned in the region totalling $12.6 billion in investment.

The Merrick Mainline Pipeline Project will run 260 kilometres from Dawson Creek, in ‘s resource-rich northeast, to Summit Lake, where Chevron and Apache’s Pacific Trail Pipeline begins.  Pacific Trail will deliver gas the rest of the way to the coast, where the resource will be chilled into a liquid state and exported abroad via tanker.

Opposition to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has risen since the beginning of the year, a poll suggests.  Opposition has grown by six points since January (from 42 per cent to 49 per cent opposed) with women and young people (18 to 34) most opposed, according to a the Insights West poll released Wednesday.

– George Schmidt publishes Substance News.

It’s actually worse about the 2012 strike. SEIU members were told by their union they had to cross CTU picket lines. As you remember, CPS opened more than 100 schools, claiming that the children would starve if the schools were not opened. After the first day of the strike, most of the kids refused to cross the picket lines, and instead joined their teachers outside on the lines that were set up at the various schools where CPS told people to go. On the first day of the strike, my sons (Sam and Josh) joined their teachers on the picket line at O.A. Thorp on the northwest side. By the strike’s second day, Thorp was shut down completely and pickets were gathering at the scab schools CPS had announced.

The main result of the position taken by Christine Boardman and the Local 73 leadership…