A decision on the proposed Energy East pipeline project is expected within two years and three months according to Saint John-Rothesay MP Wayne Long.
TransCanada has filed its consolidated application with the National Energy Board for Energy East, which would be a 4500 kilometres pipeline that would end in Saint John. Long tells us there’s 21 months of consultation and then six months of government review. He admits that’s longer than he would have liked.
“That being said it’s really not that much different than what the previous government and their process was going to be, it is another six months and we think that that extra six months is fair to allow groups to have input,” Long tells us.
At a town hall on clean growth and climate change where there was much criticism about the pipeline project MP Long re-affirmed his support for the Energy East pipeline though he did say if there’s no buy-in from Indigenous people then the pipeline isn’t happening.
