Paton says NDP wasting money fighting pipeline – Delta Optimist

August 23, 2017

The New Democrat government is about to waste taxpayers’dollars only to fail in stopping the Trans Mountain Pipeline project, says Delta South MLA Ian Paton.

The new provincial government has stepped into the picture by hiring former B.C. NDP leader and Supreme Court justice Thomas Berger as special legal counsel, and will apply to be an intervenor in legal challenges to federal approval of the controversial project.

Last month, CEO Ian Anderson said the company was completing contracts needed to start work on the expansion by September. In response to the government’s latest move, the company said it intends to proceed with construction.

The Trans Mountain Pipeline project was approved by the federal government after a lengthy environmental review process, noted Paton.

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