Court challenge filed against government’s Trans Mountain approval
CALGARY — Conservation groups have filed a new court challenge towards the Federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline.
The request for a judicial review was filed with the Federal Court of Appeal in Calgary late on Monday, and is at least the eighth legal test of the controversial project.
The project aims to triple the capacity of a 1,150-kilometre pipeline from near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. The Liberal government approved the $6.8 billion project late in November.
Ecojustice lawyers, on behalf of the Living Oceans Society and Raincoast Conservation, say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet broke the law when it relied on a National Energy Board assessment of Kinder Morgan’s controversial pipeline expansion.