Elizabeth May responds to announcement concerning interim environmental assessment processes

(OTTAWA)  January 27, 2016 – “The new conditions for existing proposals, like Kinder Morgan and Energy East, are certainly a step in the right direction but any conditions placed on a fundamentally flawed system will be imperfect. It is critical that First Nations’ rights be truly respected. As well, having been an intervenor in the ...

More evidence that NEB broken, pesticide regulations dangerously ineffective under Harper Conservatives’ watch

(OTTAWA)  January 26, 2016 - Following today’s report by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Elizabeth May responded: “The Commissioner’s findings highlight the desperate condition of key regulators following 10 years of Harper rule,” said the Green Party Leader. “The implications for the state of Canadian environmental and human health are devastating.” The ...

May to NEB: Kinder Morgan Expansion Fails Public Interest Test

BURNABY, BC — In the final argument phase of the National Energy Board hearing in the application from Trans Mountain to expand the Kinder Morgan pipeline from Alberta to the lower mainland of British Columbia, Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada catalogued the many failures of the ...

Watch Elizabeth May’s Live Testimony on the Kinder Morgan Pipeline: Thursday, January 21 @ 9:30 AM PST

Elizabeth May will testify as an intervenor at the hearings on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline in Burnaby, BC on Thursday, January 21 at 9:30 AM PST. The NEB will be live streaming audio of each hearing day and, for the first time, they will also be broadcasting video of each day live on their ...

Pipeline Politics and the Building Pressure on the Energy East Proposal

November 4, 2015 Publication source: Epoch Times OTTAWA—Keystone XL is dead! Long live Energy East! Like a game of pipeline whack-a-mole, a bid by TransCanada Corp. to suspend its controversial north-south Keystone XL pipeline proposal has elevated the west-east Energy East pipeline plan to the top of Canada’s political agenda. “With Keystone now delayed, even ...

Pipeline reviews “contaminated by fraud from the get-go,” says May

By Fram Dimshaw November 19, 2015 Publication source: National Observer Green Party leader Elizabeth May denounced National Energy Board (NEB) reviews of both the Energy East and Trans Mountain Pipeline proposals as frauds – and warned that Justin Trudeau faces a legal mess. If approved, the Energy East pipeline will transport 1.1 million barrels of ...

Elizabeth May applauds Obama administration’s decision to reject Keystone pipeline

(OTTAWA) November 6, 2015 – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party and MP (Saanich-Gulf Islands), commended the Obama administration’s decision today to reject TransCanada Corporation’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. “We applaud the US decision. The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) given to the US Department of State made it clear that ...

Elizabeth May files written evidence in opposition to Trans Mountain Expansion

OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich – Gulf Islands), filed written evidence to the National Energy Board (NEB) today detailing her opposition to the Trans Mountain Expansion project. “While I wholeheartedly agree with the many interveners and critics who have criticized the NEB review of this project ...

The Duffy Diaries, Enbridge, PMO campaign to demonize environmental groups

The tawdry affair of Mike Duffy—once sought-after Canadian media celebrity; now disgraced former Senator facing criminal charges—will drag on through our courts for the next few months. The bare facts of the matter are clear: Stephen Harper appointed a man who famously did not live in Prince Edward Island as a senator for that province, ...

Harper’s cuts contribute to unacceptable spill response, says Green Party

OTTAWA – The spill of bunker fuel or some other as yet unidentified heavy oil in English Bay in Vancouver was likely worse due to a series of cuts made by the Harper Conservatives, says Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich – Gulf Islands. “In the ...