Natural Resources committee  Indeed, discussions occur regularly at our hearings on the topic of environmental effects, including the impact of greenhouse gases, of projects that are proposed to us by companies and sometimes supported or opposed by others. We often discuss the impact of a project on greenhou

Natural Resources committee  That's right.

Natural Resources committee  No, that was the second part of my answer. The choice of there being a hearing or not is a discretion that board members who sit on the case exercise. That is based in part on the degree of public concern about the project and their own expert opinion as to whether there could be

Natural Resources committee  I'd like to give you a qualitative answer and undertake to give the clerk more specific numbers, if it's acceptable to you. I'd say some gas pipelines are underutilized right now because of the evolving nature of the western Canada sedimentary basin. Oil pipelines, for the bett

Natural Resources committee  I don't think there's a target rate. Depending on the method of tolls and tariffs, I think the market understands a pipeline cannot be always full if the demand side is variable, subject to storage. I don't think there's a fixed number. It's obvious that everybody benefits from a

Natural Resources committee  I will answer that indirectly. The NEB does not do separate studies on those kinds of issues. It does an overall assessment of the supply and demand market in Canada. However, if a phenomenon like the one you described were to occur, the cause would be what is known as a market i

Natural Resources committee  I can only speak for us, honourable member. Our job, in terms of applying both legal and conscience-minded principles as a quasi-judicial body, is to listen to Canadians. By the same token, we don't want to spend ages reviewing the issues that come before us. We must provide Cana

Natural Resources committee  I read newspapers like everyone else. As I already said, what people tell us during hearings is what we are bound by. People identify themselves as intervenors or parties wanting to make comments. We listen to what they have to say and we take it into consideration. That is the o

Natural Resources committee  The first trigger is that there be an application for a part of a pipeline. The word “pipeline” is defined in the act. We have a legal interpretation that says if you want to add valves and fittings and modify the physical configuration of a pipeline, aside from flow reversal, yo

Natural Resources committee  Well, in that case it's part of an interprovincial and international pipeline. Enbridge is a whole interconnected grid of pipelines all over the place, from Alberta all the way to Quebec.

Natural Resources committee  If it is a local work and undertaking, with the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C. notably, and Ontario as well, that is provincial jurisdiction. That's right. If the purpose is to extract the resource, which is a provincial authority in the Constitution, and deliver it t

Natural Resources committee  Honourable member, any application we receive is first and foremost a request from a company seeking our approval. Those companies have a duty to provide us with any information we deem pertinent to environmental, social and economic issues. With respect to sustainable developme

Natural Resources committee  I'd love Mr. Reid to answer this, but I don't think he can. In fact, as we speak, our staff is gearing up towards going to communities along the right-of-way of the pipeline that was talked about earlier today. There is the pipeline reversal, Line 9, which is not only a reversal

Natural Resources committee  They're taking place in various communities along the right-of-way of the pipeline where people have expressed concern. I could give you the names of the communities. I could send those to the clerk, if you want the specific towns. Would that be helpful?

Natural Resources committee  Okay, we'll do that promptly after the meeting today.