Harper government accused of meddling with Northern Gateway proposal

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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PM Harper’s government was acutely criticized Tuesday for nerve-racking witnesses and meddling with the National Energy Board’s trial into Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.

According to Liberal interim leader Bob Rae, the most recent comments by PM Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver disregard NEB’s sovereignty and disobey the law. Harper and Oliver protested that ‘radical’ environmental groups supported by U.S. trusts have commandeered the Northern Gateway trial n Kitimat, B.C.

Moreover, Oliver submitted a written complain Monday regarding long delays in the regulatory process in Canada. However, he clarified during an interview that he wasn’t talking about the NEB panel, which has stretched the length of the Northern Gateway procedure due to the thousands of participants who have registered.

“I think it is inappropriate for a minister or a prime minister to interfere and intervene and frankly to intimidate an environmental process as it would be to interfere or intervene in a court case,” Rae said at a news conference.

“You have a situation where witnesses are being criticized, where the process itself is being challenged, where witnesses are being told, ‘We’ll threaten you with loss of your charitable status.’ It’s horrendous.”

“And other groups do that as well. But once the environmental process happens, the prime minister should keep quiet, Mr. Oliver should keep quiet, and should respect the process.”

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