Smithers resident Michael Sawyer was among a number of intervenors at a National Energy Board hearing in Calgary late last week.
Hearings regarding the jurisdiction of Coastal GasLink’s province-spanning pipeline took place on Thursday and Friday.
According to Sawyer, while the pipeline is fully contained within BC, it connects to the Fedrally-regulated, Alberta-based system, which should make it federal jurisdiction.
So far, the project has been treated as a provincial case, with only BC performing a review of the pipeline.
While Sawyer and his team’s arguments were heard, CGL legal teams were also present to argue thw flip-side.
The onus now falls on the NEB to decide whether or not they need to perform a review of the project.
Sawyer, who recognized he was an underdog, expects it to take up to three months for the NEB to come back with a decision.
