The Globe and Mail reports in it Friday, Aug. 22, edition that the City of Vancouver is going
to court to try and have global
climate change considered in
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain
pipeline proposal.
A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that the city will ask the Federal
Court of Appeal on Friday for a
judicial review of the National
Energy Board process for the
project.
Vancouver officials already
asked the board to take climate
change into account, but the
regulator decided in July it
would not.
Now the city wants the court
to decide, deputy city manager
Sadhu Johnston said.
"What we're trying to do is to
ask the NEB to have a thorough
review of this, that evaluates not
just the economic benefits but
evaluates the environmental
impacts," Mr. Johnston said
Thursday.
The $5.4-billion project would
almost triple the capacity of the
current pipeline linking the
Alberta oil sands to Kinder Morgan's
terminal at Port Metro
Vancouver, increasing flow from
300,000 barrels of oil a day to
almost 900,000.
"The City of Vancouver is the
largest port city in the country
and we have a lot of coastline.
We are already being impacted
by changing sea level," Mr. Johnston
said.
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