B.C. Set To Fight Feds In Supreme Court Over TMX Disaster Prevention

Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion are unloaded in Edson, Alta. on June 18, 2019.

The province maintains the proposed protections are indeed within its power because an oil spill disaster would pose risks to its residents, land, water and wildlife and require “considerable” resources to clean up from provincial, local and First Nation governments. B.C. is backed by interveners including the environmental law charity Ecojustice, the Attorney General of Quebec, the City of Vancouver and the Assembly of First Nations.

“In the unlikely event the Supreme Court sided with B.C., it would mean TMX would have to apply for new permits and if it sought that approval in good faith, B.C. would have to deliver them,” Olsynzki said. “B.C. wants the autonomy to make that call.” Unlike under the federal legislation, First Nations and local governments would be able to claim costs for restoration, economic loss and ecological recovery when a spill happens,. The province’s legislation would empower B.C.’s environment director to require Trans Mountain to provide information about the risks a heavy oil spill would pose to human health and the environment and how much dealing with those outcomes could cost.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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