Burnaby mayor asks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to suspend NEB pipeline review
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-area mayor is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately suspend National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has sent a letter asking Trudeau to put the review on hold while the federal government implements promised changes to the way the regulator evaluates projects.
“I am now writing to request that the amendments be expedited to avoid perpetuation of the current, deeply flawed NEB process that the public and your government have already acknowledged is inadequate,” he wrote.
Interveners filed final written arguments Tuesday ahead of hearings starting next week on Kinder Morgan’s US$5.4-billion proposal to triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby.