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NEB issues a Compilation of its Decisions on Brunswick Pipeline's Detailed Route

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For release at 2:30 p.m. (MST)
13 May 2008

CALGARY - The National Energy Board (NEB) today released a compilation of its decisions on the nine landowner objections to the detailed route proposed by Emera Brunswick Pipeline Company Ltd. (Brunswick Pipeline) for the Brunswick Pipeline Project.

The NEB held hearings in Saint John, New Brunswick during the week of 28 January 2008 to consider objections from the following:

Sierra Supplies Ltd. (Sierra);
Five separate objections from Galbraith Construction Ltd. and Galbraith Equipment Co. Ltd. (Galbraith) relating to three areas, referred to as Areas 1 and 2, Area 3 and Area 4;
Frederick Tuddenham;
Melvin Hannan and Beatrice Latour (Latour);
Estate of A.J. Debly (Debly).

The issues considered during the Brunswick Pipeline Detailed Route Hearing include the best possible detailed route for the pipeline and the most appropriate methods and timing of constructing the pipeline.

For efficiency and timeliness, the NEB decided to issue its decision on each objection as it was finalized rather than wait until all the decisions had been made. The document released today is a compilation of these decisions for ease of reference.

On 3 March 2008, the NEB issued its decision on Galbraith Areas 1 and 2, followed on 1 April 2008 by decisions for Galbraith Area 3 and Galbraith Area 4. In all three of these decisions, the NEB rejected Brunswick Pipeline's proposed detailed route segments. In the NEB's view, Brunswick Pipeline did not demonstrate that it had chosen the best possible route for the pipeline across these areas.

On 13 March 2008, the NEB issued its decisions on the objections from Frederick Tuddenham, Latour, Sierra, and Debly. In all four cases, the NEB ruled that the route proposed by Brunswick Pipeline was the best possible detailed route across these lands.

While deliberating over these objections, the NEB also addressed the matter of its jurisdiction to consider any alternate routes that may be proposed by objecting landowners that are outside of the already approved corridor for the Brunswick Pipeline Project. The NEB concluded that it has the authority to consider such routes, for the purpose of determining whether the detailed route proposed by the pipeline company is the best possible route for the pipeline.

In May 2007, the NEB approved Brunswick Pipeline's application to build and operate a 30-inch diameter pipeline, extending 145 kilometres from the Canaport™ Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal at Mispec Point, New Brunswick to a point on the US border near St. Stephen, New Brunswick.

Brunswick Pipeline subsequently applied to the NEB for approval of its proposed detailed route for the pipeline. The company sent notices to owners of lands proposed to be acquired for the pipeline route and published notices in newspapers in the vicinity of the proposed route. Landowners had 30 days in which to file an objection with the NEB.

The NEB received eighteen written statements of opposition to the proposed route, eleven of which were set down for a detailed route hearing. The nine statements of opposition that proceeded to the hearing stage were organized into seven separate objections for NEB decision.

The NEB is an independent federal agency that regulates several parts of Canada's energy industry. Its purpose is to promote safety and security, environmental protection, and efficient energy infrastructure and markets in the Canadian public interest, within the mandate set by Parliament in the regulation of pipelines, energy development and trade.

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For further information:

Carole Léger-Kubeczek
Communications Officer
National Energy Board
E-mail: carole.leger-kubeczek@neb-one.gc.ca
Telephone: 403-299-2717
Telephone (toll free): 1-800-899-1265
Telecopier: 403-292-5503
Telecopier (toll free): 1-877-288-8803
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