The NEB can’t fix itself, only the feds can

The NEB will not regain credibility by putting fresh faces on a broken process. The federal regulator needs a complete reboot.

The meeting between NEB Chair Peter Watson, NEB Members Lyne Mercier and Jacques Gauthier, and then-TransCanada lobbyist Jean Charest, pictured, has been the focus of much of the reporting, and was clearly inappropriate, writes Keith Brooks. The Hill Times photograph by Jake WrightThe Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY KEITH BROOKS

September 19, 2016

TORONTO—The National Energy Board is in crisis after the NEB members tasked with reviewing Energy East were forced to step away last week. Ottawa has said it doesn’t want to intervene and it’s up to the NEB to solve its own problems. That’s wishful thinking: the NEB’s response to the Chare...

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