Tag: hearing

Joint Review hearings moved to Haisla Recreation centre from Riverlodge

Joint Review Panel David Suzuki speaks at the Solidarity Gathering of Nations at the Haisla Recreation Centre, Kitamaat Village, May 29, 2010. The gathering was called to protest against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.  The Joint Review Panel announced Dec. 22 that the Kitimat hearings have been moved from the Riverlodge Recreation Centre to the […]

Thousands to speak on proposed Northern Gateway pipeline

Northern Gateway  John Cotter of Canadian Press reports that at least 4,000 people have signed up to speak at the Northern Gateway Joint Review hearings, even though the panel staff has not yet finished counting the applications for oral arguments. Thousands to speak on proposed Northern Gateway pipeline More than 4,000 people and groups have […]

KM LNG hearings wrap with concerns over conditions

Energy The National Energy Board hearings into the application from KM LNG for an export licence to ship liquified natural gas to Asia through Kitimat wrapped up in Calgary Thursday, with the main participants expressing concerns over conditions on the licence proposed by the NEB. The board panel reserved its decision. No date was given […]

Kitimat Rod and Gun concerns forgotten at KM LNG NEB hearings

At final arguments Thursday on the application for the KM LNG export licence, it soon became clear that the concerns of Kitimat's non-aboriginal  residents for their own traditional hiking, fishing and hunting access to the area around the Bish Cove terminal have been forgotten. At the June 7 hearings, Mike Langegger, representing the Rod and […]

Here's how the Enbridge hearings will proceed

Staff of the Northern Gateway Joint Review panel explain the hearing process to residents of Kitimat at Riverlodge Recreation Centre, June 16, 2011.  (Robin Rowland/Northwest Coast Energy News) It will take more than year for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel to complete hearings and taking evidence before it even begins to consider a […]

NEB adjourns KM LNG hearings as partnership talks to coastal First Nation

 The National Energy Board adjourned the KM LNG hearings early on Friday pending negotiations between the energy partnership and the Gitxaala, a small coastal  First Nation, based in Kitkatla on the northern BC coast.   NEB panel chair Lynn Mercier ruled that the board would not decide  on KM LNG's request for an export licence […]

Australia, Canada rivals in "new frontier" of liquified natural gas

Canada and Australia are rivals in the "new frontier" of liquified natural gas export sales to Asia, a panel of energy marketing executives told the National Energy Board Tuesday at hearings into the KM LNG in Kitimat. The "marketing panel" testifying before the board included Kenny Patterson, Vice President LNG Marketing and Shipping for Apache […]