LandKeepers News Archive
Funding Assigned for Pipeline Review
March 31 2010 | News Articles | Kitimat Northern Sentinel
Nine environmental groups will split $435,780 from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) to participate in the environmental review for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.
ForestEthics, Living Oceans Society, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Kitimat Valley Naturalist Club, BC Wildlife Federation, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union, Nature Canada, Dogwood Initiative and Friends of Michel Society are the chosen recipients of the funds.
In total, 12 applicants had sought funding, including the Kitimat Terrace Industrial Development Society (KTIDS).
“We applied because we had a premonition that, based on other things like this, there wouldn’t be a whole lot of people lined up to talk about the possible benefits,” said the group’s president Ron Burnett.
“If you look at who got the funding, it appears that the environmental groups got 100 per cent of the funding and people that want to talk about the benefits got nothing.”
The money is intended to help the applicants review and comment on the application to be submitted by Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines.
The eventual application will include the environmental impact statement.
The money will also go towards preparing for and participating in public hearings.
According to the funding review committee’s report, funds were not given out to those groups that did not provide enough information on their applications or did not demonstrate an ability to provide useful input on the assessment being carried out.
Funds were also not assigned to groups that would seem to duplicate activities already being undertaken by Enbridge or the Joint Review Panel.
Money was divvied up as follows: Forest Ethics Canada Project – $59,605; Living Oceans Society – $91,000; Raincoast Conservation Foundation – $83,790; Walter D. Thorne, of Kitimat Valley Naturalist Club – $20,000; BC Wildlife Federation – $38,540; United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union – CAW: $64,665; Nature Canada – $47,745; Dogwood Initiative – $10,435; Friends of Michel Society – $20,000.
Find this article at:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/northernsentinel/news/89522847.html
This Entry is Not Tagged. Click here to Add Tags