In July we filed Information Requests to the Government of Canada Departments noted below. As a result of their answers to our requests, we filed a motion to provide full and adequate answers after an unsatisfactory response. This is our final response to their response to our motion to compel. The National Energy Board filing
This set of Decisions by the National Energy Board relates to the Information requests sent by the Friends of Ecological reserves to Government of Canada Departments: http://wp.me/p4y4il-5iJ Since IR 1.3 was the only one granted, we will include the answer from GOC here when it is published. Attachment to Board letter Dated 12 August 2015
The Board of Friends of Ecological reserves is one of 76 Intervenors who have been accepted to present oral summary arguments at the National Energy Board- Kinder Morgan/ Trans Mountain Expansion Project Hearings . A one hour presentation will be made by Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher on September 30 at 1:30 PM in Burnaby
In July, all intervenors had the opportunity to file information Requests to other intervenors in Kinder Morgan/ Trans Mountain Expansion Project.. This is the original link to this filing: An internal version is available here in PDF: Unfortunately, the government of the Province of British Columbia had not filed final Written Evidence so our questions
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER, 2015 By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher Please visit: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2015/05/28/final-evidence-report-tmx/ to view the report in its entirety. Executive Summary from the Report This evidence report from Board of the Friends of Ecological Reserves (Board of FER) is for the National Energy Board (NEB) to inform
This past week we submitted an application to participate in the NEB Oral Summary Arguments in Burnaby in September of this year. Today we completed filing the Information requests on other intervenors. Because of the disappointing “Written Evidence ” provided by the federal departments, we decided to file on the following Federal Departments : Transport
The National Energy Board indexes all communications from Intervenors, KM/TMX , NEB and commentators at this website: A054 – National Energy Board – Exhibit List for Hearing Order OH-001-2014 (A61576) A54-1 – A – National Energy Board – A3Y9H1 Open Download 603 KB 07/08/2014 A54-2 – B – Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC – A3Y9H2 Open Download 3
Table 5: Significant Species and Conservation Status in 19 Marine Ecological Reserves ER# Name Species Scientific Name Species Common Name BC List Status COSEWIC Status SARA Status CF Prov. Priority 28 Ambrose Lake Oncorhynchus clarkii Coastal Cutthroat Trout, ssp. lewisi, S3S4 (2004) Blue Special concern 2 Gasterosteus aculeatus Threespine Stickleback Yellow Special concern 6 24
VANCOUVER — Special to The Globe and Mail by Stanley Tromp Published Tuesday, Apr. 28 2015, 7:00 AM EDT “Newly released U.S. documents show American authorities are nervously eyeing Canadian proposals to triple the number of oil tanker voyages through the shared waters off B.C.’s coast, saying among themselves that Canadian standards to clean up a major
Lester Pearson College has employed the Ecoguardians at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve since 1997. One of the benefits of this is in having observers on site 24 hours on this archipelago in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A great amount of citizen science is achieved as the Ecoguardians record in their logs the events
Ecological reserve warden Marilyn Lambert submitted this photo showing within a short distance of Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve, this 61342 ton, 250 metre oil tanker passing through under tethered tug escort. ( Why the tug is tethered behind the ship is a good question??) This is only one tanker out of 34 per month,
See this revised exhibit list (as of April 10, 2015) for documents relating to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project: Following are the submissions and responses specific to The Board of Friends of Ecological reserves C33-5 – Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves – Motion for adequacy IR2 (A66957) 2 Items 02/26/2015 C33-4 –
We just received our feedback to our motion to compel Kinder Morgan /TMX to answer our Round 2 Intervenor Questions more adequately. Their response to 28 out of 31 questions was the same quote: “In accordance with Board Ruling No. 33 (Filing IDA63066), Trans Mountain’s response provided sufficient information and detail for the Board in
Delivered via online Filing
This filing can be viewed at:
http://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/
Or See the PDF version here: Motion to compel KM to supply adequate responses to FER IR 2 Feb 26
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To: National Energy Board “NEB” 444 Seventh Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta. T2P OX8
From: Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves
C/O Mike Fenger, President, Friends of Ecological Reserves
511 Foul Bay Road
Victoria BC V8S 4G9
Attention: Sheri Young
Re: Hearing order OH-001-2014
Trans Mountain Pipelines ULC (“ (“Trans Mountain”)
Application for Trans Mountain Expansion Project
Notion of Motion to Compel Full and Adequate Responses to Information Requests (IRs)
Please find enclosed the notice of motion to compel full and adequate responses to IRs, filed on behalf of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER). The filing is in the form of a Table with colour coding as follows:
FER would like to take this opportunity to state that we reviewed all responses. For the inadequate responses we have provided clarification to support that claim. We have also retained all IRs and responses as we have learned from the adequately answered responses too, and these need to remain part of the record.
We have provided links to documents wherever possible through footnotes. We have used endnotes to display maps or portions of references provided by TMX when needed to support understanding of IRs.
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Adequate Responses |
Inadequate responses |
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4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18,21, 23, 25, 26 |
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. |
Mike Fenger
President of Friends of Ecological Reserves
Garry Fletcher
Board member of Ecological Reserves
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In late January , we found out that we had been granted some funding for our work as Intervenors in the National Energy Board, Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. We had applied in May of 2014. This link shows the location of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves Documents. https://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/llisapi.dll/Open/2450919 KM/TMX Responses
