The panel weighing the future of the proposed Northern Gateway project released a long list of conditions Friday that the company would need to meet should the project receive approval, including almost $1 billion in liability coverage in the event of a catastrophic oil spill.

An Enbridge official said he's been told to equip the Northern Gateway oil pipeline with the best spill detection system possible, but he admits leaks do happen.

A small group of protesters greeted the environmental review panel weighing the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Tuesday as the hearings returned to British Columbia where the pipeline proponent will face cross-examination about the plans.

Justin Trudeau has told reporters in Richmond, B.C., that he doesn't support the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, but he says he's sensitive to provincial jurisdictions in such matters.

While the British Columbia government remains locked in a dispute with neighbouring Alberta over revenues from the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, the province has declined offers from Enbridge to discuss benefits.

Enbridge chief executive Al Monaco says the company's controversial Northern Gateway project is a strategic project for Canada.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark spoke to students at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy Tuesday, reiterating that her government could make things difficult for the proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline if its demands for a greater share of the project's economic benefits aren't met.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark heads to Alberta today to air her environmental concerns about Enbridge's (TSX:ENB) proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline.

Alberta's premier is considering an invitation from her B.C. counterpart to chat over the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

One of the most powerful foes of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline through northern British Columbia is not a lawyer or a conservation group or any of the many First Nations who have lined up against the project.

The benefits to the oil industry of Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline may be exaggerated and its costs to the economy and environment underestimated, hearings into the project heard Tuesday.

The B.C. government has hired a former attorney general to oversee the province's grilling of Enbridge on its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project.

As Enbridge attempts to sell its controversial Northern Gateway pipeline project, the National Energy Board is examining the broader issue of pipeline safety and pointing to Enbridge's devastating spill along Michigan's Kalamazoo River two years ago as an example of why the industry needs to change.

When a geyser spewed black oil across a Vancouver-area neighbourhood in 2007, the result of a punctured pipeline, members of the Tsleil-Waututh were among those working to clean up the Burrard Inlet shoreline.

Enbridge officials say they are pleased they'll have a chance to address the concerns raised about their proposed Northern Gateway pipeline when environmental review hearings resume next week.

Whether they're crossing the border into the United States or heading west to the British Columbia coast, the controversial pipelines linked to the Alberta oil sands have one purpose: to get the thick, heavy bitumen out of the country.

Enbridge Inc.'s response plan for a potential spill of Northern Gateway oil into the pristine waters off British Columbia doesn't take into account the unique oil mixture the pipeline would actually carry, documents show.

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the fate of Enbridge's proposed pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to tankers on the British Columbia coast will be based on science and not politics, documents show some of that science isn't forthcoming.

The federal and provincial NDP are dismissing a plan by the owner of the Black Press media group to build a refinery at Kitimat as nothing more than a "pipe dream."

British Columbia newspaper magnate David Black has submitted a proposal to build a $13-billion oil refinery in Kitimat as an alternative to shipping heavy crude oil through the province’s waterways.

A B.C. fisheries biologist studying the potential fallout of a Northern Gateway oil spill says some of the province’s waterways are too fast moving and complex for conventional containment methods.

Nearly 150 Michigan residents were treated for symptoms such as nausea and headaches in the aftermath of Enbridge’s oil spill two years ago, but it’s the potential for long-term health effects that has experts most worried.

About 1,000 square kilometres of islands have disappeared from Douglas Channel in an animated depiction of Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker route.

The panel reviewing the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal has asked Enbridge to submit a damning U.S. report into the company’s 2010 Michigan oil spill as evidence.

As debate over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline continues to rage, CTV News headed south to the site of one of the largest land-based oil spills in U.S. history to learn what a similar catastrophe could mean for British Columbia.