The National Energy Board says its review of the Energy East Pipeline cost at least $685,000 before members of the panel presiding over hearings into the development resigned, putting the exercise into limbo. Ninety per cent of the federal regulator’s budget comes from the pipeline and energy companies it regulates, with the rest coming from public coffers. The figure includes costs from meetings with communities before the hearings began last month, the gathering of oral evidence from aboriginal interveners last year and some expenses from the hearings in Saint John, N.B., and Montreal, NEB spokeswoman Sarah Kiley said.
Dan Healing – Canadian Press – September 23, 2016.