Trans Mountain criticizes interveners in reply to NEB
VANCOUVER — The company hoping to twin its pipeline between Alberta and B.C. claims some interveners broke the National Energy Board’s rules when they presented oral arguments at recent hearings on the proposed expansion.
Kinder Morgan has filed its written reply argument, triggering the close of the record in the often-contentious energy board proceeding into the Trans Mountain project. The board is expected to deliver a recommendation to the federal government by May.
The argument is Trans Mountain’s response to written and oral arguments delivered by municipalities, environmental groups and First Nations at hearings in Calgary and Vancouver.
“Certain interveners repeated their evidence as argument, in some cases verbatim,” states the document filed with the board on Wednesday.