Canada Court Delays Major Pipeline Expansion Over Concerns For Endangered Orca Populations
Canada ’s Federal Court of Appeal voted Thursday to stop a major pipeline expansion project after finding the country ’s National Energy Board did not adequately consult First Nations people or consider its impacts on the environment and maritime mammal specie , include the endangered Southern Resident killer whales ( SRKW ) . Theexpansionwould almost treble the flow of oil from Alberta ’s oil Sand to the Pacific Ocean and would lay around 980 klick ( 600 miles ) of new pipeline and reactivate another 193 kilometers ( 120 miles ) extend parallel to the existing 1,150 - kilometer path ( over 700 miles ) ....