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Burnaby calls on national energy regulator to suspend Trans Mountain pipeline review

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, holds a sign while marching to a protest outside National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday January 19, 2016.

BURNABY, B.C. C The nation’s Energy Board should suspend its overview of the Trans Mountain pipeline until Pm Justin Trudeau reforms the nation’s regulator, a lawyer for the City of Burnaby said Wednesday.

“You don’t have the legal right to speak in the interest from the citizens of Burnaby,” the city’s lawyer Gregory McDade told the NEB panel.

Burnaby is both the epicentre of opposition towards the $5.4 billion pipeline expansion project and the host city of the present round of NEB hearings around the project, likely to continue for 10 days in B.C. and can wrap up in Calgary next month.

“Burnaby should not be the final victim of a flawed process,” McDade said, referring to the best minister’s mandate letter asking natural resources minister to “modernize” the NEB.

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