Unclogging the pipes

The debate and its impact, which extended beyond Parliament, dealt with the financing of the project as well as the perceived threat of US influence on the operation of the pipeline and on Canada’s resource sovereignty. [...] However, as Nalcor, the A great deal of interest has been demonstrated provincial energy utility, is building the project to in improving the regulatory environment and the fulfill the Newfoundland and Labrador government’s efficiency of the pipeline review process; efforts such energy plan, the economic case for the project as the MPMO have been successful and should should be outside the scope o [...] The creation of the MPMO was a good first step in rationalizing the involvement of government departments and agencies such Improving Regulatory Effectiveness as the National Energy Board and the Canadian While important and necessary, process is only Environmental Assessment Agency in the review part of the picture. [...] Now, the federal government should work significant challenges for Canada, beyond regulatory to clarify and remove any remaining duplication in efficiency, is the higher-level problem of dealing the roles and responsibilities of joint review panels, with conflicts of views on the benefits and costs the MPMO, the NEB, and the CEAA so as to of development and the resulting scope creep in move Canada