Weeks after we requested that the East Energy review start anew, Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott spoke with Simon Delattre of l’Acadie Nouvelle where he applauded the National Energy Board decision to restart the East Energy from the ground up.
“The process was broken. All decisions were suspect, forming a new committee was the right decision,” Abbott told l’Acadie Nouvelle.
“The current process does not leave enough room for public participation and is very favorable to oil companies. It takes more time because a project of this size carries a lot of risk to drinking water and species in the Bay of Fundy. ”
Read the full l’Acadie Nouvelle story here.
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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.