Oil - Pipelines

The Energy East pipeline won’t be without its detractors after the federal regulator tried to wipe the slate clean on its troubled past today.

The National Energy Board (NEB) voided all decisions made by a review panel that had been overseeing TransCanada Corp.’s $15.7-billion pipeline project up until September of last year.

That three-person review panel, which held hearings in New Brunswick and made several key decisions on how TransCanada’s regulatory process would play out, recused itself in September.

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TREATY ALLIANCE RESPONDS TO NEB DECISION TO RESTART ENERGY EAST REVIEW

After months of public criticism for its review of major pipeline projects, the National Energy Board has announced that all decisions made by the original Energy East panel are officially void.

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week he "misspoke" when predicting the oilsands would someday have to be phased out, a new study says reducing oil production is exactly what the country needs to be doing if the world is going to meet its targets under the Paris climate agreement.

“Canada’s exports of fossil fuels do not need to drop to zero immediately, but we cannot pursue policies that further increase extracted carbon,” economist Marc Lee wrote in the report for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Institute.

Chris Standing could have gone to see a cheap movie on Tuesday night, or trained for his advanced blue belt on Wednesday.

Instead, the 200,000-litre oil spill at Ocean Man First Nation made him decide to organize an anti-pipeline rally outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s town hall event at the University of Saskatchewan. 

Today, Donald Trump pushed forward executive orders that would resurrect the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. This is part of a series of unjust decisions that Trump has made since his inauguration.

As we saw this Saturday when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for the Women’s Marches, people in Canada reject Trump’s xenophobia, racism, misogyny and climate denial. Tell Prime Minister Trudeau to stand with us.