B.C.㽶Ƶֱs environment minister says he is 㽶Ƶֱvery disappointed㽶Ƶֱ by a federal judge㽶Ƶֱs dismissal of the province㽶Ƶֱs request to appeal a National Energy Board ruling that allows Kinder Morgan to circumvent city bylaws as it continues to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline.
In response to Friday㽶Ƶֱs decision at the Federal Court of Appeal, Minister George Heyman said this 㽶Ƶֱallows the local permitting process to be needlessly undermined,㽶Ƶֱ and that the province will keep looking into ways to fight the $7.4-billion pipeline twinning.
The province had in mid-February, after the NEB㽶Ƶֱs ruling a few months earlier that allowed Kinder Morgan to bypass city bylaws and continue work on the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who had said in if it got the go-ahead, called Friday㽶Ƶֱs decision 㽶Ƶֱanother step forward for market access, the national climate plan and a strong Canadian economy.㽶Ƶֱ
The Trans Mountain projects has caused months of tension between the two provinces, with Notley bringing in, and then stepping back from, a B.C. wine ban and a suspension of talks to buy B.C. electricity, and Premier John Horgan vowing to fight the pipeline in court.
Opposition to the project has spilled out onto the streets in recent weeks, with dozens of arrests and protests across Burnaby and .
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