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(...) The eventual resolution of the Trans Mountain issue will also serve as a precedent for another controversial pipeline project: TransCanada’s proposed Energy East line. It will travel from Alberta through Ontario and Quebec to a refinery and export terminal in Saint John, N.B. It has stirred a hornet’s nest of opposition in Quebec from municipal politicians, the Parti Québécois and First Nations.
In Montreal, Mr. La Flèche (Erik Richer La Flèche, partner at Stikeman Eliott LP) expects the jurisdictional tussle in B.C. to end up in the federal courts.
“That has a huge impact for Quebec because politically if [a] pipeline can’t go through B.C., there is no way it’s going to go through Quebec. If it can’t go through the immediate neighbour, why should it go through one so many kilometres away?” (...)
Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/discord-over-the-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-rattles-canadas-politicallandscape/article35197642/
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