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National Energy Board Press Release
For immediate release
26 January 1999
NEB issues decisions on alternate route proposals for Maritimes & Northeast
Pipeline
CALGARY - The National Energy Board has found that an alternate route
proposed by William (Billy)
MacDonald of Pictou County, Nova Scotia is the best possible detailed route
for the Maritimes &
Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) and has denied the route applied for by the
company. In another case, the
Board found that the route proposed by M&NP in the case of Franklin Irving
of Charlotte County, New
Brunswick is the best possible detailed route.
The decisions follow video hearings conducted on 8 January and 11 January
1999 subsequent to the
Board reserving its decision in these cases at the conclusion of detailed
route hearings held in July and
August 1998.
The Board found that the route proposed by the company would require
significantly more mitigation
than the alternate route proposed by Mr. MacDonald. The Board also found
that there would be
significant impact on the Red Tail Nature Awareness Camp owned by Mr.
MacDonald, which could
not be fully mitigated, and therefore denied the route proposed by the
company.
In the case of Mr. Irving, the Board found that the evidence did not show
that the alternate route
proposed by him would be superior to the route proposed by M&NP. The Board
concluded that
M&NP's route represented an appropriate balance of all relevant factors and
therefore found that the
route proposed by the company was the best possible detailed route.
The two decisions have been announced in letters sent to the applicants and
interested parties.
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For further information:
Ross Hicks <rhicks@neb.gc.ca>
Public Affairs Officer
Telephone: (403) 299-3930
http://www.neb.gc.ca/regupd/releases/nr99/nre9906.htm
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