Energy Board: Pipeline Route and Supreme Court

energy board: There are significant legal challenges from six major First Nations whose territories include much of the proposed pipeline route through B.C. Ecojustice is litigating in the Federal Court of Appeal to defend the critically endangered southern resident orcas, according to Rabble. The B.C. government is taking its case for jurisdiction over the transport of toxic diluted bitumen within the province to the Supreme Court. But the latest approval of TMX by the Trudeau government and the industry-captured regulatory agency, the National Energy Board, does not settle the issue. The Indigenous-led, grassroots place-based resistance that encouraged the Texas-based multinational Kinder Morgan to walk away from the project is re-emerging, after the construction delay imposed by the Federal Court of Appeal in August 2018. It was founded by two former executives of Enron, the company that later collapsed amidst accounting scandals. Kinder Morgan, remember, never intended to benefit Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.