The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that the National Energy Board is facing
more resistance to
its review of the proposed
Kinder Morgan Trans
Mountain pipeline expansion.
A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that British
Columbia's Opposition New
Democrats, the City of Burnaby
and the Sierra Club issued
renewed challenges to the process
on Thursday.
The NDP says in a letter signed by its leader John Horgan
and environment critic Spencer
Chandra Herbert,
"The NEB
assessment process of this particular
project is fundamentally
flawed and broken." Enbridge rival Kinder Morgan hopes to triple
the bitumen-carrying capacity of
the Trans Mountain line, which would increase
the number of tankers in Burrard
Inlet to 34 from the current five a
month.
The strongly worded letter
from the NDP details four major
concerns with the NEB process,
including that it lacks the public's
confidence, doesn't consider
climate change, has not required
Kinder to disclose its
emergency response plans and
failed to ensure first nations
were on board.
Meanwhile, Burnaby
is refusing
to provide the NEB extra policing services
for the upcoming Trans Mountain
hearings in September.
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