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Step by Step: How to apply to have a say on Energy East

Slogging through the National Energy Board’s process can feel about as thick and gooped-up as the bitumen that TransCanada is proposing to push through its Energy East pipeline. The Conservation Council has put together a Step by Step Guide for getting through the application process to have a say on the proposed Energy East oil […]

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Step-by-step guide for applying to have a say on NEB’s review of the Energy East oil pipeline

Download the pdf versions of this guide (and the tables referenced in Step 12). Step 1: Start by Clicking Here Step 2: Select GCkey Login and follow the instructions to create an account Step 3: Follow the link to create your account on the NEB website Step 4: Click Apply to Participate in the “Energy East

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Energy East could spill 2.6 million litres of oil per day undetected: independent report

An independent study of TransCanada’s Energy East oil pipeline indicates that leaks as large as 2.6 million litres per day could go undetected. The study, commissioned by the MRC d’Autray- a municipal region in Quebec, states that the company’s leak detection system cannot detect leaks less than 1.5% of daily volume, according to the report

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Heads up! Important dates announced on Energy East pipeline

The National Energy Board will begin accepting applications to participate in TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline hearing beginning February 3, 2015. The form will only be available for a period of four weeks. Who needs to apply? 1. You are someone who will be directly affected by TransCanada’s Energy Pipeline or 2. You have relevant knowledge

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Energy East – Verging towards victory, staying strong and revealing the spin

This week’s Energy East update includes the efforts of a New Brunswick landowner to have the pipeline diverted away from his property, a message to stay strong against the pipeline from Nebraskan farmer-turned-activist Ben Gotschall, revelations of TransCanada’s spin doctoring, a black snake prophecy linked to the tar sands pipelines and how the NDP’s pipeline

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Energy East – Myth busting, mounting opposition & taking action

This week’s Energy East update contains a myth busting commentary, concerns of Indigenous people and landowners who live in the path of the proposed pipeline, news of mounting opposition in Quebec and an easy way for you to tell the National Energy Board that climate change should be considered in their review of the tar

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TransCanada files Energy East application with National Energy Board amidst criticism and opposition

The Conservation Council says the TransCanada pipeline could pose big dangers to provincial waterways and marine life. “In ten minutes, a broken pipeline could spew out 1 million litres of dense, sticky oil,” says Lois Corbett, Executive Director of CCNB. “We’ve seen in other areas how devastating an oil spill can be to thriving fishing

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Energy East: Our Risk, Their Reward with Maude Barlow, Matt Abbott & Others

TransCanada’s Energy East export pipeline project would ship 1.1 million barrels of oil everyday, including tar sands crude, from Alberta to ports in Cacouna, Quebec and Saint John, New Brunswick. It would be the largest tar sands pipeline in North America. Atlantic Canadians are concerned about how a spill would damage waterways including several major

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Fredericton joins largest climate march in world history

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Fredericton residents will join hundreds of thousands of people from across the world this weekend in a historic mass action to stop climate change and build an economy for the future. A People’s Climate March will happen in Fredericton at the same time that an estimated quarter of

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