Sentences with phrase «joint review panel»

Dec. 19, 2013: Federal joint review panel issues report recommending approval of Northern Gateway project, subject to 209 conditions.

In its final written submission to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel (JRP), the government of British Columbia states that it can not support the project as presented to the panel primarily because Northern Gateway (NG) has been unable to adequately detail its response to a spill.

Calgary based Enbridge, the company behind Northern Gateway, has emphasized its commitment to safety and the environment, saying the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel, which held two years of hearings on the project, had made many of the company's voluntary commitments a mandatory part of the conditions for approval.

The project will still face at least National Energy Board approval, but more likely a federal joint review panel including both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Energy Board, similar to the proceedings currently underway for the Northern Gateway Pipeline.

Jan. 10, 2012: Joint review panel begins public hearings that travel throughout B.C. and Alberta over next 18 months.

There a federal - provincial joint review panel (JRP) found that the proposed oil sands mine expansion would have significant residual impacts on the ecosystem and recommended a series of conservation offsets to address a wide range of impacts, including those to caribou.

Shawn has appeared in major regulatory proceedings before the: Alberta Energy Regulator (Energy Resources Conservation Board); Alberta Utilities Commission; National Energy Board; Federal Environmental Assessment Joint Review Panels; Ontario Energy Board; Alberta Environmental Appeal Board and various other appeal boards.

As Enbridge intensifies its advertising campaign to convince British Columbians to accept the Northern Gateway project — approved in December by a federal Joint Review Panel, though not yet by the government itself — the forces against this and other energy pipelines are marshaling too.

In the case of Northern Gateway, that would mean a recommendation by the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel that the project proceed;

In 2012 - 2014, we represented Heiltsuk First Nation before the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel, and in 2015 - 2016, we represented Heiltsuk First Nation and Kitasoo / Xai» xais during a judicial review before the Federal Court of Appeal, and successfully challenged the decisions of the National Energy Board and government to allow the building of the pipeline.

In December it issued a press release hailing the federal Joint Review Panel's approval of the contentious Northern Gateway pipeline.

Enbridge Northern Gateway President John Carruthers called these conditions tough on a conference call late this afternoon, but reminded listeners that many reflect, «recommendations and proposals made by and committed to by Northern Gateway during the Joint Review Panel process.»

The Joint Review Panel was not as definitiive — it found that, «further scientific research would be needed for definitive answers,» and has required the Northern Gateway to complete that work.

What will also be an issue, potentially for legal appeal, is what the Joint Review Panel didn't consider: the impacts of oil sands development.

Northern Gateway received approval from a joint review panel in December, though it must meet 209 conditions, including $ 950 million in liability coverage.

Even the plebiscite question, as chosen by the District of Kitimat council, was controversial, because it focused on the 209 conditions placed on the project by the Joint Review Panel: «Do you support the final report recommendations of the Joint Review Panel (JRP) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and National Energy Board, that the Enbridge Northern Gateway project be approved, subject to 209 conditions set out in Volume 2 of the JRP's final report?»

«In December 2013, the Joint Review Panel found that construction and operation of the Northern Gateway Pipelines project is in the public interest, subject to 209 conditions being met by the proponent.

The timetable set in motion by the Joint Review Panel's conditional approval of the project on Dec. 19 could prove troublesome for the Tories.

A joint review panel of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency recommended approval of the project six months ago, subject to 209 conditions.

Oil sands projects and activities were not included in our terms of reference under the Joint Review Panel Agreement.

VICTORIA — The B.C. New Democrat Official Opposition caucus has formally registered its opposition to Enbridge's Northern Gateway Project with the National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel.

VICTORIA — The National Energy Board is shutting out important voices by limiting the scope and depth of participation in the Joint Review Panel hearings on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, say the New Democrats.

«The members of the joint review panel that were conducting the hearing asked the five demonstrators to leave the building, as it is a private hearing.

«Harper indicated before the joint review panel even started its sessions he wanted that pipeline through,» Suzuki told DeSmog Canada.

Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a statement: «In December 2013, the Joint Review Panel found that construction and operation of the Northern Gateway Pipelines project is in the public interest, subject to 209 conditions being met by the proponent.

The Government of Canada approved the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline Tuesday, six months after the Joint Review Panel recommended the pipeline be built subject to 209 conditions.

In Edmonton this week, experts and lawyers have gathered again at the Joint Review Panel hearings on Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline and tanker project.

In Calgary, the Joint Review Panel today (December 19) recommended that the federal government approve the $ 6.5 - billion project, which would transport oil from the Alberta tar sands across British Columbia to Asia, subject to 209 conditions.

In April 2012, the Joint Review Panel released 199 potential conditions that could form part of an authorization for the Northern Gateway Pipeline project if it received federal approval.

For that reason, our government can not support the issuance of a certificate for the pipeline as it was presented to the Joint Review Panel.

British Columbia will be presenting oral final arguments to the Joint Review Panel when hearings recommence in Terrace on 17 June, based on BC's final written submission.

We have carefully considered the evidence that has been presented to the Joint Review Panel.

The mandate of the joint review panel ensured that it focused on risks which can be mitigated without harming the pipeline or the prospect of future of oil sands development while ignoring the larger risks that can't be so easily mitigated.

Had they been forced to consider climate change, the result of the joint review panel could well have a rejection of the pipeline proposal.

Lake announced the policy in advance of the province's final written submission to the Joint Review Panel currently underway.

However, [they] have presented little evidence as to how they will respond... For that reason, our government can not support the issuance of a certificate for the pipeline as it was presented to the Joint Review Panel.»

Suddenly, the Fisheries Act no longer protected fish habitat; the NEB Act exempted the National Energy Board, when reviewing pipeline applications, from any duty to minimize impacts on species at risk under the Species At Risk Act; and the decision - maker for the project changed from the Joint Review Panel to the government itself, where the «record» of the decision could be held secret as a cabinet confidence.

In 2012, in the middle of the Joint Review Panel process for assessing Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline Project, the federal government suddenly enacted significant amendments to laws governing pipelines and environmental protection (the «2012 Changes»).

In 2012 and 2013, we represented First Nations before the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel and now in the judicial reviews of the National Energy Board's decisions.

The fact that more than 4,300 people signed up to make submissions to the Joint Review Panel considering the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, two giant pipelines to carry petroleum from Alberta's oil sands through the British Columbia mountains to a port in Kitimat, BC., for shipment by tanker to Asia.