National Energy Board

Two First Nations in Northern Ontario are going to court to block work on a section of TransCanada pipeline which passes through their territories.

The panelists assigned to review the largest pipeline proposal in Canadian history were appointed to the NEB last month, and hail from Ontario and Quebec.

Brenda Kenny knows Canada's energy regulator inside out after working at the National Energy Board as a senior executive and then working as a chief industry lobbyist.

The Liberal government gave the green light to the $6.8−billion pipeline expansion late last month, despite a thicket of existing legal challenges to the regulatory process.

The scientists say at least 10 of 15 identified impacts from oilsands expansion on oceans are “certain” to happen from new coastal development, ocean shipping, climate change and the risk of spills.

The new members were not specifically named to the Energy East review panel by Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr because it’s up to the acting chair of the National Energy Board to assign duties.

Wall says the decision will benefit industry and workers, including pipe manufacturer Evraz which has a site in Regina.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made some long-awaited major decisions on pipelines that will inevitably alienate part of the Canadian electorate.

A Calgary-based employee of Irving Oil, a major player in the proposed Energy East pipeline project, sent an email invitation directly to Steven Kelly, an NEB member who also faced controversy.

The three Montreal-area women said they were taking matters into their own hands to protect the public from the risk of a spill that could contaminate drinking water for the entire region.

The panel is to report to Carr by March 31 — not by the Jan. 1 deadline initially announced by the government back in June when it made public the draft mandate for the NEB review.

After several months of consultations, the three members of the special Kinder Morgan panel were not able to say whether they recommended the project, because they admit this wasn’t their mandate.

We can't rely on the NEB's reference case. Only its low price scenario reflects the structural change underway in an industry producing a product that is long past its climate change best before date.

The next United Nations climate change summit — scheduled to start this month in Morocco — is around the corner and it seems Justin Trudeau is standing on a teeter totter.

In a bizarre series of interviews, several major Canadian media outlets interviewed Jean Charest for the first time in months. None asked about his major pipeline lobbying fiasco.