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Mulcair: B.C. pipelines shouldn’t proceed Feds environmental assessment system needs to be restored By Tom Fletcher Black Press
Neither of the oil pipeline projects proposed to cross British Columbia should go ahead unless the federal government’s environmental assessment system is restored after Conservative government amendments, federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said on Nov. 13. Speaking to reporters on a campaign swing to back Murray Rankin’s run in a Nov. 26 byelection, Mulcair said the Conservative government’s proposed exemption of most lakes and rivers from federal environmental scrutiny is added to ear-
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lier changes that weaken the process too much for it to be reliable. Both Mulcair and B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix have strongly opposed Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oil pipeline planned from Alberta to Kitimat. Dix has refrained from making a similar call on Kinder Morgan’s proposal to twin the TransMountain pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby. However, Mulcair said there is no way such an expansion could proceed with the rules the way they are. “To the extent that you can’t even discuss these things in the absence of a thorough, credible, complete assessment process, you can’t, therefore, even discuss an increase in flow and
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an increase in tanker traffic because the condition is carrying out a thorough examination,” Mulcair added. “And the Conservatives have gutted that. They’ve rendered it meaningless.” Rankin, a lawyer who advised the B.C. NDP on its plan to withdraw B.C. from the joint review of Northern Gateway, is running in a byelection to replace retired Victoria MP Denise Savoie. He agreed with Mulcair that the Kinder Morgan proposal shouldn’t proceed with the current system, adding there has not yet been a formal application for the TransMountain expansion. Continued on 4
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