A panel of leading environmental groups expressed concern last week over findings in an Ontario Energy Board commissioned report that suggest oil tanker trains could replace TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline if the project isn’t approved.
“We believe the report makes a number of flawed assumptions on rail capacity, and actually goes beyond the oil industry’s own projections,” Ben Powless, a panel presenter at the province’s Energy East stakholder meeting and pipeline community organizer for Ecology Ottawa, said.
The energy board’s report, written by Navius Research, estimates the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact of the pipeline — which is (Read more…)