UN Human Rights Panel Calls for Pause on Trans Mountain, Site C, Coastal GasLink – The Energy Mix
In response, the federal Crown corporation building Trans Mountain said its work is “approved and moving forward with construction safely and in respect of communities,” the news agency writes. BC Hydro traced its consultations with First Nations on Site C back to 2007 and said it had reached agreements with most of them, producing $230 million in procurement opportunities for Indigenous businesses and 400 jobs. The federal government, the RCMP, and Coastal GasLink did not respond to CP’s request for comment.
In a statement, Alberta Energy Minister and former pipeline executive Sonya Savage cast the UN as “an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada’s energy megaprojects.”