Kinder Morgan: Burnaby Mtn. & Beyond . . .

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Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline

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Pipeline basics:

Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline currently carries 300,000 barrels of oil a day. Over the last ten years, Kinder Morgan has submitted a series of applications to the NEB to increase the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline and its Westridge operations. These plans, which have received firm support from Big Oil corporations, stand to increase the pipeline's capacity to 700,000 barrels a day.

Pipeline route:

The pipeline presently spans 1,150 kms from Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, B.C., including through Jasper National Park. The pipeline is multi-use, it has transported natural gas, jet fuel and oil, however, since 2005 it is increasingly being used to transport tar sands crude to both Greater Vancouver and the Puget Sound area in Washington State, feeding Chevron, BP, Shell and Conoco Phillips refineries as well as export terminals.

Opposition:

Opposition to the project grew in 2007 after a major rupture in the line dumped 200,000 litres of crude oil – enough to cover an entire neighbourhood – in North Burnaby. There was a major leak at the Burnaby Mountain tank farm in 2009, and a spill in 2012 at the Sumas pumping station near Abbotsford. These spills have led many people to question the health and safety risks of the project. The transport of tar sands crude – bitumen – poses heightened spill risks. Bitumen is more viscous and corrosive then conventional crude oil and needs to be mixed with diluents (solvents such as naphtha and natural gas condensate) and transported at higher pressures and temperature.

In 2011 the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation announced their opposition to any expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, highlighting the risks to the community, the people and the environment. The Fraser Declaration, supported by more than 130 Indigenous communities and First Nations has been expanded to include opposition to the Kinder Morgan expansion plans.

A recent poll indicated that 72 per cent of Burnaby, B.C. residents are opposed to the Kinder Morgan expansion.

This past summer, in solidarity with rallies against the Keystone Pipeline in Washington, DC, the Council of Canadians helped mobilize hundreds of people in a march to Kinder Morgan's Westridge Terminal to protest the proposed pipeline plans.

Where does government stand? Over the last ten years, Kinder Morgan has submitted a series of applications to the NEB to increase the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline and its Westridge operations.

Kinder Morgan indicated in February 2012 that it will go ahead with planning a $3.8-billion proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which will require a formal application to the National Energy Board


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Kinder Morgan loses bid to extend injunction

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Judge throws out civil contempt charges against those arrested for breaking the injunction

CBC News Posted: Nov 27, 2014 8:21 AM PT Last Updated: Nov 27, 2014 2:26 PM PT

An application by Kinder Morgan to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from two drilling sites on Burnaby Mountain was rejected by the B.C. Supreme Court Thursday, meaning the site must be cleared of excavation work by Dec. 1.

In denying the company's request to extend the injunction to Dec. 12, the judge also ruled that all civil contempt charges against those arrested so far have been thrown out due to errors in the injunction.

Earlier, anti-pipeline protesters had locked themselves to the front doors of the court in an attempt to block Kinder Morgan's access.

Sheriffs quickly redirected members of the public, including lawyers representing Kinder Morgan, to other entrances, leaving the protesters locked to the doors.

Lawyers told the court the cost of policing the Kinder Morgan work sites on Burnaby Mountain and arresting more than 100 anti-pipeline protesters over the past week is running at about $100,000 a day for the RCMP, but that figure was not confirmed by the RCMP.

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Also Thursday, Kinder Morgan confirmed that it has completed work at one of the two drilling sites on the mountain. Yesterday, the company confirmed that initial test results indicate the mountain is stable enough for them to proceed with a tunnel, if its plans to reroute the pipeline are approved by the National Energy Board. [ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.2851321 ]

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Chief Stewart Phillip arrested at Kinder Morgan protest

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First Nations leader joins more 100 protesters arrested so far at pipeline test drilling site

CBC News Posted: Nov 27, 2014 11:03 AM PT Last Updated: Nov 27, 2014 1:07 PM PT

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has been arrested at the ongoing Kinder Morgan protest on Burnaby Mountain. [ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... r%20Morgan ]

Before his arrest, Phillip addressed a group of protesters before they marched together towards a borehole site, where he crossed a police line and was taken away by police.

"We are making a very clear public statement that we do not support the Harper and Clark governments when it comes to resources," he said before his arrest.

Phillip said he supported Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan in his stand against the company's exploration on the mountain, adding that this would be the first time in Canadian history a local government bylaw would have been overruled on a land use issue.

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Kinder Morgan begins dismantling controversial B.C. drilling site

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Nov 28, 2014 Last Updated: 5:30 PM ET

Energy giant Kinder Morgan began dismantling equipment at its controversial drilling site east of Vancouver Friday after a court ruled against extending the company's injunction to keep protesters away.

"Our crews are removing equipment & supplies by helicopter from the remaining work site on #BurnabyMountain," the account for the Trans Mountain pipeline project tweeted.

The mountain has to be clear by Monday — when the original injunction expires.

Judge Austin Cullen's decision followed a week of unrest in which it's estimated more than 100 people were arrested. Four protesters locked themselves to the front door of the B.C. Supreme Court Thursday morning.

Cullen also threw out civil contempt charges against dozens of protesters who had been trying to stop Kinder Morgan from conducting survey work for the pipeline expansion.

"We believe we have enough info from #BurnabyMountain studies," the company said on Twitter, adding it respects the court's decision.

Criminal charges against two protesters accused of spitting in the face of police and interfering with an arrest will proceed.

Kinder Morgan is trying to twin its 1,150-km oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C. and wants to tunnel the line under Burnaby Mountain. The expansion, which includes conservation land, is expected to increase capacity of the line from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

The City of Burnaby has voted to stop Kinder Morgan from test drilling, but a National Energy Board ruling allowed the company to overrule city bylaws. The city plans to appeal.

— With files from Jane Deacon


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Judge throws out charges against dozens of activists arrested at anti-Kinder Morgan pipeline protests

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James Keller, Canadian Press | November 28, 2014 10:07 AM ET

A judge threw out civil contempt charges Thursday against dozens of activists who have been arrested while demonstrating against a pipeline project on a mountain near Vancouver.

The ruling came a week after the RCMP began rounding up protesters on Burnaby Mountain, where Kinder Morgan is conducting drilling work related to its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

More than 100 people were arrested, nearly all of whom faced civil contempt proceedings for violating a court injunction ordering them to keep away from two drilling sites.

The company admitted it provided incorrect GPS co-ordinates when it initially sought the court order. At one location, the co-ordinates were so inaccurate that the actual work site was entirely outside the area covered by the injunction.

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RUSSOW: Kinder Morgan expansion must not proceed: it contravenes international law

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By Joan Russow Peace, Earth, and Justice News ~ Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:43

Photo: The remedy [of injunction] of course, is an equitable one.. "The exercise of the equitable jurisdiction is not to be restricted by the straitjacket of rigid rules but is to be based on broad principles of justice and convenience, equity regarding the substance and not merely the facade or the shadow. It moves with time and circumstances." (Justice J.A. Norris)

Injunctions must move with time and circumstances in relation to international law; the judge should never have originally granted an injunction;

The Kinder Morgan Expansion must not proceed.

1. FOSSIL FUEL TRIAD: THE OIL SANDS, THE PIPELINES AND THE TANKERS
It is imperative to examine the TOTAL IMPACT OF oil sands, pipelines and tankers, and the importance of addressing the threats to indigenous rights, to livelihood and subsistence, to marine life and resources, to future generations and to cultural and natural heritage. And to address the question: Does Canada really need this project? After reviewing the terms of reference , I realized that the current terms of reference of the Review panel have ignored many of key issues even though Canada is legally bound under international law

2. APPLICATION OF THE UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Under Article 2 of the legally binding UN Framework Convention on Climate change, all states including Canada are legally bound "to stabilize greenhouse gases below a level of dangerous anthropogenic emissions. The Harper government has already contributed, through fossil fuel subsidies, through reneging on Kyoto Protocol and through making a weak commitment in Copenhagen, to a dangerous level of anthropogenic emissions

The Kinder Morgan expansion will further exacerbate the situation.

3. INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
"the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, came out of the recognition of the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples"

Under Article 18:
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.

Article 19:
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.

Article 26.1
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states: Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.

AND under Article 26.3
is the obligation to Give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.

While Canada finally adopted the Declaration, the government proceeded to undermine it by claiming that it was only aspirational. The universal adoption, however, of the Declaration has resulted in the provisions becoming international norms- thus obligations of all states. Sadly the spirit and the letter of the Declaration have now been violated by Bill C-45, in which the government has altered a section of the Indian Act to allow First Nations to give up their
rights to reserve lands, without a majority vote of the community.

4. LIVELIHOOD SUBSISTENCE
The right to livelihood was recognized as a human right in Article 25 of the seminal 1948 Universal Declaration of human Rights

Under Article 1 of the legally binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Is the following obligation: "In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence".

Alberta First Nations within and around the oil sands have been deprived of their livelihood and subsistence: Melina Laboucan Massimo, a Lubicon Cree decried: "before the tar sands, my community used to live sustainably off the land; our community was self-sufficient…before my family was able to drink from the waters…"

Undoubtedly, BC First Nations will also be deprived of their livelihood and subsistence, if the Kinder Morgan expansion proceeds and the pipeline will further increase the development of the tar sands and the destruction of first nations territory in Alberta

5. HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER
In 2010, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly agreed to a resolution declaring the human right to "safe and clean drinking water and sanitation"

If the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion proceeds, the right to water cannot be guaranteed

6. HEALTH
Under article 12 of the legally binding International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights is the obligation "to recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the obligation to take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right."

Already reported spills, in the existing Kinder Morgan expansion have caused harm to human health, to the environment, and to the right to livelihood

7. SEA RESOURCES FISH INCLUDING IMIGRATORY SPECIES
Under Article 194 5. of the legally binding UN Law of the Sea is the obligation to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment and to take measures necessary to protect and preserve fragile ecosystems as well as the habitat of … forms of marine life.

And under Article 66 12, of the Convention is the following obligation:

1. States in whose rivers anadromous stock (such as salmon and sturgeon) originate shall have the primary interest in and responsibility for such stocks and shall ensure their conservation

In the omnibus bill 38 the Harper government weakened section 35 of the Fisheries Act; Undoubtedly, the weakening of section 35 was in contravention of the Law of the Sea and its agreements.

8. RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE AND RIGHTS
Under the article 4 of 1972 legally binding UN Convention on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage, there is the duty of ensuring the identification, protection, conservation, preservation and transmission to future generations of cultural and natural heritage

Under Article 12, of the Convention on biological Diversity there is an obligation to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity for the benefit of present and future generations, In the framework Convention on Climate change, there is determination to protect the climate system for present and future generations

9. APPLICABILITY OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSTY
Under the Convention is the obligation to conserve biodiversity "Biological diversity" means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

The destruction of Burnaby Mountains is contributing to significant loss of biodiversity.

10. THREATS AND THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Canada is bound by the precautionary principle which reads: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent the threat." (Rio Declaration, UNCED1992).

This principle is also contained in the Convention on Biological Biodiversity, the precautionary principle reads: "where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a
threat in the UN Framework Convention on climate change" and in1995 agreement "relating to the Conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks …is the obligation to invoke the precautionary principle."

There is sufficient evidence that , in the Burnaby mountain, and through the proposed pipeline, there could be serious irreversible damage, loss of significant biological diversity, adverse effects of climate change, and harm to marine life to justify invoking the precautionary principle and end the fossil fuel triad.

CONCLUSION

If the Kinder Morgan expansion is permitted to proceed, Canada, in collusion with the court system, will demonstrate yet again its defiance of international law.

I raise these issues of international law because from my experience at international UN conferences, the Harper government has caused Canada to be perceived as an international pariah because of its obsession with profiting from the tar sands at any cost, while being willing to disregard its duty to guarantee fundamental indigenous and ecological rights and to discharge obligations under international law

Proceeding with the kinder Morgan pipeline extension would be grossly negligent. There is sufficient evidence of precedents, such as spills, regional earth quakes, potential tsunamis, grounding of a drilling rig and widespread pollution of land and water bodies.

Everyone is criminally negligent who (a) in doing anything, or (b) in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do, shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons" (where 'duty' means a duty imposed by law). (Section 216, Canadian Criminal Code.

British Columbia does not need the Burnaby Mountain pipeline extension.

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Windsor-Essex chapter protests Kinder Morgan fracked gas pipeline

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December 1, 2014 - 4:07 pm

The Council of Canadians Windsor-Essex chapter protested against Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan yesterday.

The chapter joined with Idle No More and Windsor on Watch to express their solidarity with the protectors on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia who have been working to stop the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. The company wants to increase the capacity of that Alberta to BC pipeline from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day. The project would produce an estimated 270 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over a 35-year period.

In the process of organizing their solidarity protest, Windsor activists discovered that the Kinder Morgan Cochin pipeline ends in their city.

And so their event took place at the Plains Midstream Canada propane storage terminal on Matchette Road in the west end of Windsor. Kinder Morgan uses the Plains Midstream Canada Windsor-Sarnia pipeline to move propane and ethane. Kinder Morgan says, "In operation since 1979, the Cochin system transports propane from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, to Windsor, Ontario. In the United States, the Cochin pipeline passes through North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan before crossing into Sarnia, Ontario." [ http://www.kindermorgan.com/pages/busin ... ochin.aspx ]

The company is now also set to move fracked gas from Ohio to Windsor.

This fall the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, "Under the Utica To Ontario Pipeline Access (UTOPIA) project, Kinder Morgan will build and operate a 240-mile, 12-inch diameter pipeline from Harrison County, Ohio, to Kinder Morgan’s Cochin Pipeline near Riga, Mich., where the company would then move product eastward to Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. UTOPIA would transport previously refined or fractionated natural gas liquids, including ethane and propane, with an initial 50,000 barrels per day (b/d) of capacity, which is expandable to more than 75,000 b/d. ...The pipeline is expected to be in service by early 2018." [ http://powersource.post-gazette.com/pow ... 1411250224 ]

Windsor-Essex chapter activist Randy Emerson says, "Had it not been for Burnaby, we may never had known the company was here. If Kinder Morgan persists in building a pipeline through Burnaby Mountain then maybe we should shine a light on ALL their pipelines."

That could also include a 95,000 barrels per day condensate pipeline that Kinder Morgan Cochin wants to have between Texas and Alberta. The Vancouver Observer reported just last week, "Kinder Morgan Cochin LLC is now allowed to reverse and expand to build a 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced by hydraulic fracturing of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas north into Alberta. It would carry gas condensate that is used to dilute the bitumen in the tar sands. The extra-thick oil produced in the tar sands needs to be cut with 30 per cent condensate so it can be carried, according to the Financial Post." [ http://www.vancouverobserver.com/enviro ... -expansion ]

That Financial Post article highlights, "Demand for condensate in Alberta is poised to skyrocket... The extra-thick oil is typically cut with 30% condensate so it can move in pipelines. By 2035, producers could require 893,000 barrels a day of the ultra-light oil, with imports making up 786,000 barrels of the total, National Energy Board data show." [ http://business.financialpost.com/2013/ ... =5f46-b953 ]

As Emerson says, "Stop Kinder Morgan."

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Burnaby Mountain Lawsuit Renews Anti-SLAPP Calls

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Kinder Morgan case resurfaces a law reform debate 20 years in the making.

By David P. Ball, January 13, 2015 TheTyee.ca

One of Burnaby's most outspoken Kinder Morgan opponents is headed back to court today, demanding the pipeline company pay his legal fees and "special costs" for dragging him through what his lawyers allege is a frivolous legal battle.

The motion by Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) member Alan Dutton is the latest development in an ongoing $5.6-million lawsuit against him and four other BROKE members. Kinder Morgan accused them of assault and trespassing in their anti-Trans Mountain pipeline efforts.

"We say Dutton is being sued by Kinder Morgan because he’s an organizer, and because Kinder Morgan wants to silence him and discourage him from organizing people in opposition to the pipeline," alleged his lawyer, Neil Chantler, in a phone interview. "He’s incurred expensive legal costs defending himself to date, and we say he should be compensated."

Although four of his fellow defendants quietly settled with the company, Dutton refused because he believes the company's lawsuit is a "strategic lawsuit against public participation," otherwise known as a "SLAPP" suit. The term describes a vexatious case never intended to go to trial, but simply to intimidate.

Trans Mountain spokeswoman Ali Hounsell disputed that accusation in an email, and said the injunction was "never intended to prevent or deter people from freely expressing their views."

"It is unfortunate Mr. Dutton has chosen to pursue further legal actions, and we believe his motion to be without merit," she wrote, adding that the firm did truly suffer the damages it listed in its claim against Dutton, including financial losses from protests which impeded their exploratory drilling in Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area, and hostilities towards workers.

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Harper gov’t appoints Kinder Morgan consultant to NEB

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by Mychaylo Prystupa in News, Politics | August 1st 2015

The Harper government chose the Friday afternoon of a long weekend, just before the Sunday launch of a federal election, to appoint a paid Kinder Morgan consultant to the National Energy Board (NEB) in a timed press release that critics say was an attempt to bury the news.

Conservative Minister of Natural Resources Greg Rickford issued a Friday 12:30pm EST news release announcing that Calgary-based petroleum executive Steven Kelly will become a full-time board member of the federal agency that helps cabinet decide if oil and gas pipelines go forward.

Mr. Kelly's consulting firm was hired by Kinder Morgan two years ago to prepare an economic analysis justifying the $5.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Mr. Kelly himself, in his capacity of vice president of IHS Global Canada, authored and submitted the 203-page Kinder Morgan report to the National Energy Board.

Mr. Kelly will soon sit in a position of power at the NEB —close to those who will rule on whether that very same Kinder Morgan oil pipeline is in Canada’s economic and environmental interest. A decision is expected in January 2016.

'Incredible conflict of interest'

“It’s utterly incredible the Government of Canada would appoint such an industry consultant to a regulatory agency that presumably is interested in the public interest, and not in the interest of multinational oil corporations,” reacted former CEO of BC Hydro, Marc Eliesen on Saturday from Squamish, B.C.

"The NEB have totally become a captured industry regulator,” he added.

A board spokesperson said Mr. Kelly will not be a part of the three-member NEB panel that will judge the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

But Eliesen says Mr. Kelly's proximity to the regulator's decision makers, plus any future Kinder Morgan rulings that he may be a part of, still put him in a "significant and incredible conflict of interest." He added, the long-weekend timing of the announcement, plus the election call craze, suggest the government wanted this appointment to be disclosed quietly.

Minister Greg Rickford has yet to respond to this story. But his Friday press statement said Mr. Kelly has 19 years of experience providing his Canadian and international clients —presumed oil company clients —with "technical, commercial, regulatory and strategic" advice for accessing oil markets.

A valuable background, said the minister's release, that will enable the National Energy Board to "fulfill its mandate to ensure the safety and security of Canadians and the environment."

Both Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau have promised to overhaul the environmental review of pipelines if elected. Mulcair's press handler, who was reached Saturday, declined to provide a NDP member to comment. Liberals likewise said they were busy preparing for the Sunday election call, and have promised to respond.

Green leader Elizabeth May, campaigning in North Vancouver, reacted to the NEB appointment with amazement:

"Wow. Clearly there's a flurry of appointments that Stephen Harper wants to get in place before he goes down in defeat in the election. He's picked people who are of his ideological bent, and are unlikely to provide dispassionate and neutral work on behalf of the people of Canada."

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SIGN PETITION: Harper: Don't Let Your Big Oil Friends Run the National Energy Board!

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This past week the Harper government announced that they had appointed a paid Kinder Morgan consultant to the National Energy Board (NEB).
[ http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/08 ... ultant-neb ]

The announcement came late on a Friday afternoon - a time usually reserved for announcements the government hopes the media will miss. It's clear why the Harper Government is trying to keep us from looking too closely.

Just two years after Kelly's consulting firm was hired by Kinder Morgan to help push for a $5.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Petroleum executive Stephen Kelly will become a full-time member of the NEB.

With Kelly's appointment, over half of the NEB board members have close ties to the petroleum industry. That's incredibly worrying for an organization that is making decisions that could effect our entire environment and the livelihoods of Canadians across the country.

We can't let Big Oil insiders continue to take over Canada's energy regulations and policy.

Send a message to Stephen Harper today to stop giving Big Oil consultants so much undue influence in Canada's energy and environmental decisions.

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