NDP, which vowed to stop the pipeline expansion in the 2017 campaign, has decided that since it cannot stop the federal government from expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, it will take a regulatory approach
Steel pipes that were to be used in the oil pipeline construction of Kinder Morgan Canada's Trans Mountain Expansion Project shown at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. on Aug. 30, 2018.The B.C. government acknowledges it cannot stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but wants the right to limit the passage of heavy oil into the province, a lawyer acting for the province said at the opening of a B.C. Court of Appeal hearing.
The magnitude of the long-awaited hearing set to spotlight the division of powers between the federal government and the provinces was clear from the presence of more than 30 lawyers in the courtroom, representing various interests in the case. Ten lawyers sat in the front row of the public gallery, which was reserved for additional counsel.
Lawyers for the federal government plan to argue that British Columbia’s proposed regulations would frustrate its right to oversee the pipeline expansion that it has declared to be in the national interest.
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