{"id":8757,"date":"2018-05-09T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b8adc2b5a6e24f2c7790a4206e721ff1"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:43:43","slug":"first-nation-leader-pitches-sustainability-to-pipeline-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/first-nation-leader-pitches-sustainability-to-pipeline-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"First Nation leader pitches sustainability to Kinder Morgan investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; Environmental and First Nations groups say shareholders at Kinder Morgan&#8217;s annual general meeting voted for a resolution today for greater sustainability disclosure after a presentation made by a chief from British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Neskonlith Chief Judy Wilson says she told the meeting in Houston that environmental, social and governance issues can pose significant risks to business and without proper disclosure, shareholders won&#8217;t know if they are vulnerable to those risks.<\/p>\n<p>After making her proposal, Wilson says shareholders asked questions about Indigenous policy and she told them she believes the pipeline builder is violating them.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/commodities\/energy\/kinder-morgan-pipeline-wont-get-built-vancouver-mayor-says\">Kinder Morgan&#039;s Trans Mountain pipeline won&#039;t get built, Vancouver mayor says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/investing\/cries-of-rank-hypocrisy-as-disclosures-reveal-b-c-government-pension-fund-invests-in-kinder-morgan\">Cries of \u2018rank hypocrisy\u2019 as disclosures reveal B.C. government pension fund invests in Kinder Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lisa Lindsley with advocacy group SumOfUs says the proposal is not binding on Kinder Morgan, but they&#8217;re hopeful shareholders will follow up with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The groups say more than 50 per cent of shareholders supported the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has approved Kinder Morgan&#8217;s plans to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., but Wilson says First Nations have not given their consent for work on their lands.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene King of West Coast Environmental Law says Trans Mountain is a perfect example of why investors should pay close attention to the risk and uncertainty facing projects that don&#8217;t have consent from communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shareholders at Kinder Morgan&#8217;s annual general meeting voted for the resolution after Neskonlith Chief told them they are vulnerable to sustainability risks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8776,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}