{"id":42610,"date":"2019-01-11T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42610"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:42:06","slug":"is-coastal-gaslink-an-illegal-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42610","title":{"rendered":"Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/01\/11\/Coastal-GasLink-Illegal-Pipeline\/\">Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>Challenge to energy project\u2019s approval brings threats to Smithers activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/01\/10\/Michael-Sawyer-Pipeline.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Sawyer-Pipeline.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Smithers resident Michael Sawyer claims the Coastal GasLink project lacks the required federal approvals and wants the National Energy Board to review it. <span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Photo by Dan Mesec.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p>The $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline may face a bigger threat than the opposition of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en hereditary chiefs and protests across Canada.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside hide-on-narrow-vp\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/aside\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/aside>\n<p>Smithers resident Michael Sawyer says the project lacks the required federal approvals. He has filed a formal application to require a full National Energy Board (NEB) review.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall the board agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.neb-one.gc.ca\/REGDOCS\/Item\/Filing\/A95030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consider<\/a> Sawyer\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In April it will hear final arguments on the question of whether the pipeline falls under provincial jurisdiction, or if it is subject to NEB rules and assessments.<\/p>\n<p>That would bring delays and \u201cput real, tangible benefits to people in B.C., including First Nations, at risk,\u201d said pipeline owner TransCanada Corp., rebranded this week as TC Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. government\u2019s Environmental Assessment Office approved the contentious 670-kilometre pipeline in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The project would move fracked methane from northeastern B.C. and northwestern Alberta to the $40-billion <a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/commodities\/energy\/shell-partners-approve-huge-31-billion-lng-canada-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LNG Canada<\/a> export terminal in Kitimat.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer, a 61-year-old environmental consultant, said the prospect of a NEB regulatory review should have been considered by the B.C. Supreme Court before it issued an injunction that led to RCMP action against two Indigenous checkpoints this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if TransCanada disclosed information to the judge about this jurisdictional challenge before it asked him to grant the injunction against the blockade,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fact is that the RCMP enforced the injunction in an over-the-top manner for a pipeline that may be deemed illegal and whose permits could be quashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline? Challenge to energy project\u2019s approval brings threats to Smithers activist. Smithers resident Michael Sawyer claims the Coastal GasLink project lacks the required federal approvals and wants the National Energy Board to review it. Photo by Dan Mesec. 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