If Kinder Morgan’s numbers don’t add up, should the pipeline be stopped?
Is it a screenplay or a PhD thesis?
Robyn Allan laughs after a nonstop hour during which the economist has elaborated on a previous hour-long conversation explaining why the Trans Mountain Expansion Project should be stopped in its tracks.
Kinder Morgan is just days away from its fish-or-cut-bait deadline by which time — May 31 — the company wants to be assured of political alignment on the “path forward” for the project, or else. Allan doesn’t have a crystal ball. “Anything can happen,” she says. But what she is clear about is that due process has not been followed.
Allan is the former CEO of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and was an expert economics intervenor in the National Energy Board hearing on the Trans Mountain pipeline project. She started looking at the Trans Mountain proposal subsequent to her review of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project, so she’s been picking through the Kinder Morgan file for seven years.
That timeline ties to the Stephen Harper go-go oil era, the passage of Bill C-38 (the emasculation of federal environmental assessments), amendments to the National Energy Board and an electioneering Justin Trudeau promising an overhaul of the devitalized NEB. When asked in the summer of 2015 if his redo of the NEB would apply to Kinder Morgan, Trudeau replied, “yes, yes, yes …that process needs to be redone.”
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Is it a screenplay or a PhD thesis?
Robyn Allan laughs after a nonstop hour during which the economist has elaborated on a previous hour-long conversation explaining why the Trans Mountain Expansion Project should be stopped in its tracks.
Kinder Morgan is just days away from its fish-or-cut-bait deadline by which time — May 31 — the company wants to be assured of political alignment on the “path forward” for the project, or else. Allan doesn’t have a crystal ball. “Anything can happen,” she says. But what she is clear about is that due process has not been followed.
Allan is the former CEO of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and was an expert economics intervenor in the National Energy Board hearing on the Trans Mountain pipeline project. She started looking at the Trans Mountain proposal subsequent to her review of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project, so she’s been picking through the Kinder Morgan file for seven years.
That timeline ties to the Stephen Harper go-go oil era, the passage of Bill C-38 (the emasculation of federal environmental assessments), amendments to the National Energy Board and an electioneering Justin Trudeau promising an overhaul of the devitalized NEB. When asked in the summer of 2015 if his redo of the NEB would apply to Kinder Morgan, Trudeau replied, “yes, yes, yes …that process needs to be redone.”
More: http://www.thestar.com/business/opi...nt-add-up-should-the-pipeline-be-stopped.html
