Abandonment of Energy Is: Ottawa defends himself and speaks of a “business decision”

News 5 October, 2017

Photo Agence QMI, Matthew Usherwood

Maxime Huard

Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:15

UPDATE
Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:22

Look at this article

OTTAWA, The Trudeau government called a “business decision” the abandonment of the pipeline project Energy East by Transcanada on Thursday morning.

“This is not up to me to explain why the company took this decision. I respect that. Our work is to assess the projects according to our rules in canada,” said federal minister of natural Resources, Jim Carr. He also rejected criticism that the changes to the rules of assessment of the pipeline project have precipitated the abandonment of the project.

The company TransCanada had asked the national energy Board (NEB) last month to suspend the process of approval of the pipeline, after the criteria had been tightened. The NEB decided in August to take into account the greenhouse gas emissions upstream and downstream of the project in its assessment.

In a press release issued Thursday morning, Transcanada has indicated that they have decided to bury the project of $ 15.7 billion “as a result of an in-depth analysis of the new requirements”.

“It is a terrible day for Canada, has launched the conservative member of parliament Lisa Raitt, firing red cannon balls on the government in place. The prime minister Justin Trudeau had the opportunity to grow the canadian energy sector, it has chosen instead of increasing the rules.”

Lisa Raitt, a former natural Resources minister in the government of Stephen Harper, had vigorously defended the pipeline project during the race to the leadership of conservative, even going so far as to propose to approve the draft force in spite of a strong opposition in Quebec.

If he had seen the light of day, the pipeline Energy Is reported to have transported each day, 1.1 million barrels of crude oil from Alberta or Saskatchewan to destination refineries in eastern Canada and a port terminal in New Brunswick, a distance of 4500 kilometers.