When it comes to the National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline project, a process that was always going to be contentious was made worse by some clueless moves by the federal government.
The recent decision to appoint Steven Kelly to the board was mind-boggling, even for a government as imperious as this one. Mr. Kelly is an oil industry consultant who previously filed evidence to the NEB in support of Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion. Now here was the government appointing him to the same board.
GARY MASON –Â Globe and Mail –Â Aug. 28, 2015.