Event29 November 2016Action

Trudeau cabinet directs the regulator to dismiss Northern Gateway, while approving the Trans Mountain expansion and Line 3

Prime Minister Trudeau announced that the government had directed the National Energy Board to dismiss the Northern Gateway application ('The Great Bear Rainforest is no place for a pipeline'), ending the project, and approved the Trans Mountain expansion and the Line 3 replacement.

Date

29 November 2016

Kind

Permit

Where

Canada

Evidence

Action: Something was done: a law switched on, a tariff imposed, money committed. How evidence is weighed

Who

Haisla Nation (subject); Nadleh Whut'en (subject); Nak'azdli Whut'en (subject)

Sources

• Prime Minister of Canada, “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pipeline announcement” (external site), 29 November 2016. source record

Projects

• Northern Gateway pipelines (Enbridge)

Claims that rest on this event

• ContextMechanism

  In the record so far, resource projects facing organized First Nations, Métis or Inuit opposition reached construction about as often as those without it (approved: 4 of 7 vs 1 of 2; under review: 2 of 4 vs 2 of 8); tiny, selected samples.

  The federal cabinet, not the court, ended Northern Gateway in November 2016.