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The National Energy Board has cancelled Monday's hearings on the controversial Energy East pipeline project after a slew of protesters staged a sit-in.

A coalition of Quebec business organizations and large unions came out in defence of Energy East, while the leader of Alberta's Wildrose Party Brian Jean accused Coderre of meddling in the process.

A major Canadian pipeline company is coming under fire again for failing to provide francophones the same access to information it grants anglophones on a controversial pipeline project.

Mi’kmaq communities in New Brunswick say the controversial Energy East pipeline project must have their consent before they allow it to pass through their territories.

While McKenna did not directly respond to revelations surrounding Jean Charest and the NEB, she urged Canadians to trust in the system.

"We are committed to delivering this oil safely responsibly and reliably and our goal is to have zero incidents," said John Van der Put, VP of eastern oil pipeline projects for TransCanada

In all, 337 intervenors are scheduled to give their take on a pipeline that has already widened a chasm oil industry supporters and those who oppose it on environmental grounds.

The purchase of the 57−year−old refinery from Houston−based Phillips 66 will extend Irving Oil’s reach across the Atlantic, the company said.

"All of these incidents shake public confidence," said TransCanada CEO Russ Girling.

Residents of the small western city of North Battleford, Saskatchewan are being asked to cut water consumption as Husky Energy races to clean up as much as 250,000 litres of oil spilled nearby.

The National Energy Board moved to calm the waters of Canada's pipeline debate as it laid the framework for its review of a major cross-country project called Energy East.

On the same day that President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a Canadian crown corporation threw the Calgary-based energy company a financial lifeline.

The controversial pipeline poses severe "risk of a toxic tarsands spill that could not be adequately cleaned up," and will "fuel catastrophic climate change" says First Nations in the northwest.

The company must meet 48 conditions, including five related to the protection and restoration of caribou habitat. The project would run though the territory of the threatened boreal woodland caribou.