The Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott says the Energy East pipeline review process should go back to square one after the naming of the NEB’s new three-member review panel for the project. Abbott told 97.3 The Wave Fredericton that decisions made prior to the replacement of board members are now void in light of concerns over biases with the previous review panel.
“There’s a new panel, they were involved in any of the decisions the last panel made. We need to certainly go back to before they behaved in the inappropriate manner,” said Abbott. “And for the process to be credible, it really needs to restart.”
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Read Matt Abbott’s statement on the appointment of the panel to review the proposed Energy East pipeline here.
For more information on how the proposed Energy East pipeline would affect the Bay of Fundy, read the National Resource Defense Council’s report on tanker traffic in the Bay of Fundy: Sensitive Marine Ecosystems Threatened by Energy East’s ‘Aquatic Pipeline’.
For more information on the risks of Energy East to the communities of the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, read the Conservation Council’s report: Tanker Traffic and Tar Balls: What TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline Means for the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine.