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Video Stories - Laurie Smith - Transcript
Hi. My name's Laurie Smith and I used to be Board Counsel from 1981 to 84 and I wanted to participate in this 50th Anniversary for the Board. It meant a lot to me and still does. I've managed to stay involved with utility work and the National Energy Board pretty much ever since 81. We had some great people in the Law Branch back in those days, Alan McDonald of course the inimitable Fred Lamar, Sandy Fraser, Louise Meagher, Kenny MacDonald, Nick Schultz and it goes on. Howard Wetston who's now the head of the Ontario Energy Board, and I have to say that getting involved with the staff, working on these hearings which were, you know, little games if you like, that began and ended, was really a great learning experience for a young lawyer. And one of the amusing things that had happened to us in the context of one of those hearings was the Flamborough case which was a propane loading terminal near Hamilton, which ended up going to the Supreme Court of Canada twice. But in the course of a flyover where the Board members and the staff were getting a sense of what the physical layout was for this plant; we had landed in a farmer's field who was not very well disposed of pipelines or the National Energy Board and I managed to leave my car keys in the helicopter as it took off which cost me a case of beer to get back. But anyway, those and many other great moments with the Board.
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