The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday, Oct. 8, edition that a decision to overturn the environmental
approval certificates
for Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline would
kill the $7-billion proposal, a
court has heard.
The Globe's Geordon Omand writes that lawyer Bernard
Roth, speaking to a Federal Appeal Court
panel in Vancouver on Wednesday, said: "If you quash the certificates
the music stops. We can't file anything more
with the [National Energy
Board]. We can't continue with
our project."
A collection of first nations,
environmental groups and a
union have mounted a legal challenge
over what they claim is a
federal review panel's failure to
address the project's environmental
impact and to seek aboriginal
consent.
Hundreds of millions of dollars
has been spent thus far on the
project and a court decision not
to uphold the approval risks putting
a chill on large-scale infrastructure
investment, said Mr.
Roth.
"We're at the stage in this country
where you're not going to see
a lot of these applications filed
again if you see this court turning
things around after people
have literally invested half a billion
dollars and growing," said Mr.
Roth.
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