The Calgary-based National Energy Board will open a satellite office in Metro Vancouver next year dedicated to community engagement, pipeline audits and inspections as a way to improve the federal agency’s battered public image in B.C. resulting from the Kinder Morgan and Enbridge pipeline controversies.
Peter Watson, a former senior civil servant in Alberta who was named $309,000-a-year chairman of the NEB in June, told The Vancouver Sun in an exclusive interview Thursday that he brings a “fresh set of eyes” to the way his office has traditionally operated.
“There is a real need for us to get out into communities across the country and connect with people,” he said in Vancouver during a Canadian tour. “We have perhaps been comfortable just toiling away inside our office much the way we’ve done the past 30 to 40 years.
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Larry Pynn – Vancouver Sun – December 4, 2014.
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