NEB pipeline assessment process under fire after Trans Mountain decision

Green, NDP MPs point to old Conservative, new Liberal changes to the environmental assessment process as causes for criticism.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May, left, and NDP environment critic Nathan Cullen, right, say the NEB process is difficult and secretive, while Conservative MP Candice Bergen says the Liberals need to stop undermining the body.
The National Energy Board’s recommendation for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has touched a nerve with environmentalists and economists alike, who say the process that led to the recommendation that the project be approved was unfair to the point of being scandalous. ...

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