Brunswick Pipeline Project Referred to a Substituted National Energy Board Review Panel

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OTTAWA, May 4, 2006 – The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency today announced a pilot project to substitute the National Energy Board process for an environmental assessment by a review panel under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (the Act), for the proposed Brunswick Pipeline.
This will be the first application of the substitution provisions of the Act since the proclamation of the original Act in 1995, and it will therefore be considered a trial to assess application of these provisions. The substitution was approved by the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.
Substitution of the NEB process will result in more efficient and effective application of the federal environmental assessment process to the proposed Brunswick pipeline project by avoiding duplication while ensuring that the public has opportunities to present its views to the NEB panel.
The NEB process will include the following elements:
the NEB review panel will provide informal opportunities for the public to convey their views;
the NEB will apply fully the scope of assessment and all factors to be considered as outlined in the Environmental Assessment Scoping Document, which will be available to the public;
on the completion of the environmental assessment, the NEB will submit a report to the Minister of the Environment and to the responsible authorities’ Ministers; and
the NEB will publish the above report.
The Agency will administer a Participant Funding Program to assist the public to participate in the assessment of the project. Funding availability will be announced in the near future.
Minister Ambrose’s decision is based on recommendations submitted by the NEB in consultation with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency.
The project’s proponent, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Management Ltd. (M&NP), plans to build a 762 mm (30 inches) diameter natural gas pipeline that will extend approximately 145 km from the Canaport liquefied natural gas facility at Mispec Point in Saint John, New Brunswick to the international border near St. Stephen, New Brunswick where it will interconnect to facilities to be constructed. The pipeline will be 762 mm (30 inches) in diameter and will include several facilities such as valve sites.
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The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency administers the federal environmental assessment process, which identifies the environmental effects of proposed projects and measures to address those effects, in support of sustainable development.
Media Information:
Nicholas Girard
Senior Communications Advisor
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3
Tel.: (613) 957-0958
Fax: (613) 957-0946
nicholas.girard@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

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