Taking a page from Keystone XL, TransCanada is making an effort to get into communities earlier with meetings and information about its Energy East project, having started that process nearly a year-and-a-half before it filed its regulatory application.
The company has its government relations pieces in play, talking to MPs and provincial legislators whose ridings will have the pipeline going through it. It’s part of a broad effort by the company to try to ensure Energy East, a proposed 4,600-kilometre, $12-billion pipeline channelling crude from the Alberta oil sands to eastern ports and refineries, doesn’t get bogged down in politics, as Keystone XL has in the U. S.
TransCanada has hired lobby firms in the provinces through which Energy East will pass.
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Simon Doyle – Globe and Mail – March 13, 2015
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