The New Brunswick ombudsman is now looking into whether the minister of Environment Brian Kenny is breaking his own rules in not requiring that the Energy East pipeline project be registered with the department for a provincial environmental review. That’s according to Green Party Leader David Coon who filed the complaint.
Coon says people don’t trust what the National Energy Board is doing by way of environmental assessment, “after stephen harper destroyed the actual legislation that used to be recognized internationally as something pretty significant.”
This is something that Coon brought up back in March in the provincial legislature, and at the time Minister of Environment Brian Kenny said that there’s a process in place and they’ll follow the due process like any other government throughout Canada.
The department of Environment has applied for intervenor status into the NEB hearing into the pipeline project.
