The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, April 16, edition that Simon Fraser University's microbiology department chairman Lynne Quarmby worries about the impact booming oil sands production will have on Canada's climate emissions. The Globe's Shawn McCarthy writes that Ms. Quarmby says the National Energy Board's application to intervene in hearing for Kinder Morgan's proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline shows the NEB has no intention of considering the environmental impacts of the project. As a result, Dr. Quarmby dropped her application to intervene. Dr. Quarmby along with several British Columbians whom the NEB has refused to hear on the Enbridge rival's expansion are now planning to launch a legal challenge to the board's process. "The process right now is flawed both in terms of how it restricts the public from participation and the restrictions in issues that are being addressed by the National Energy Board," says veteran activist Tzeporah Berman, who is organizing the B.C. effort. "What's at stake is a fair and balanced democratic process," says Ms. Berman, adding that she expects to move forward with the legal challenge in the next 10 days.