Kinder Morgan skirting pipeline questions: B.C., Vancouver

A chorus of critics that includes the province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver claim that Kinder Morgan has failed to answer many of the questions put to the company through the regulatory review process for its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline.

The City of Vancouver submitted 394 written questions as part of the National Energy Board's regulatory review process, covering everything from emergency management plans to compensation in the event of an oil spill, but said the Texas-based company did not respond to 40 per cent of them.

"We submitted almost 400 questions and only about 248 of them were answered," said Sadhu Johnston, deputy city manager. The rest "were quite inadequate in the way they were answered, with either no answer or only partial answers."