The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously dismissed British Columbia’s bid to control the amount of heavy oil shipped across the province, eliminating the provincial government’s opposition to the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline as an obstacle to the project.
| After a one-day hearing, the bench deliberated for less than half an hour before Chief Justice Richard Wagner announced the decision, upholding a lower court ruling that what B.C. is proposing would be unconstitutional because only Ottawa has oversight of the federally owned and regulated Trans Mountain pipeline, or TMX.
|  | | | More stories below advertisement | | | Oil prices steadied on Friday as sluggish economic growth in China, the world’s biggest crude importer, raised concerns over fuel demand and countered optimism from the signing of a China-U.S. trade deal.
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Oil steadies as Chinese economy offsets trade optimism
