Trans Mountain pipeline lawsuit dropped
Published by Elizabeth Corner,
Senior Editor
World Pipelines,
A non-profit group has abandoned a legal challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline project in British Columbia, saying losing the case could bankrupt the organisation.
Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch says the advocacy group decided to withdraw its legal action after the BC Supreme Court judge assigned to the case suggested from the bench the premier was not responsible for the decision to grant environmental approval to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion.
The original court action alleges that the decision to sanction the CAN$6.8 billion project was “tainted” by political donations made by its proponents to former premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberal party.
Conacher says many of the proponents had applied to intervene in the case and if the government won, they would have asked Democracy Watch to pay legal costs amounting to tens of thousands of dollars.
The petition is one of numerous legal challenges aimed at blocking construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline between the Edmonton area and Burnaby, BC.
The pipeline expansion would nearly triple the line's capacity and increase tanker traffic sevenfold along BC's southern coast.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/project-news/10112017/trans-mountain-pipeline-lawsuit-dropped/
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