B.C. environmental groups file new lawsuit challenging Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

In a statement, Trans Mountain said it understood that several groups had filed applications with the Federal Court of Appeal and that it would provide its legal arguments through the court process.British Columbia environmental groups have filed a new legal challenge to the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, arguing that cabinet failed to meet its obligations to protect endangered southern resident killer whales when it reapproved the project last month.

Ottawa first approved the project in November, 2016. After court challenges by First Nations and environmental groups, the Federal Court of Appeal struck down that approval last August, citing problems with how the government had consulted with First Nations and with its failure to take into account how increased ship traffic would affect the killer whales.

Despite those concerns, the NEB made an overall recommendation that the project is in the public interest and should be approved, subject to 156 conditions. “The population of southern residents is small and declining,” Raincoast Conservation Foundation senior scientist Paul Paquet said Monday in a statement.

In a statement, Trans Mountain said it understood that several groups had filed applications with the Federal Court of Appeal and that it would provide its legal arguments through the court process.

GlobeBC While the eco-terrorists are it, might as well ban tankers of any kind coming to Canada, particularly the ones going up the St. Lawrence and shut down our economy completely as the economy will take care of itself.

Raincoast GlobeBC Keep it in the courts till pigs fly.

GlobeBC Before anyone opens their mouth about protecting the killer whales please educate yourself a bit by watching this panel discussion first:

GlobeBC And BCers are going across the border to buy gas! A house divided against itself will not stand.

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