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   Reuters - Wed Jan 27, 2016   
      
   Canada imposes further delays on two major pipeline projects   
      
      
   OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada announced new interim rules on Wednesday for   
   environmental reviews that will impose major delays on two projects -   
   TransCanada Corp's Energy East pipeline and Kinder Morgan Inc's expansion of   
   its Trans Mountain pipeline.   
      
   The Liberal government issued the rules on the grounds that public trust   
   needed to be restored in the process for assessing and approving big energy   
   projects.   
      
   Proponents say that after U.S. President Barack Obama's denial of the Keystone   
   XL pipeline, the all-Canadian projects are needed so the country's oil can   
   reach its east and west coasts and fetch higher prices abroad.   
      
   "The principles we are announcing today will allow the government to make   
   better evidence-based decisions on major projects," Environment Minister   
   Catherine McKenna told a news conference to unveil the measures.   
      
   The interim rules are designed to take greater account of environmental   
   impacts and indigenous groups' points of view for the two pipelines, which are   
   opposed by environmentalists and some communities but backed by industry.   
      
   The government said no existing project would be required to go back to square   
   one.   
      
   But the rules will push back the deadline for the government to decide on the   
   Trans Mountain Pipeline to December 2016 from August, signaling that the   
   review by the National Energy Board regulator will still be done by May.   
      
   Ottawa also extended the total period for the NEB review and subsequent   
   government decision of the Energy East pipeline to 27 months from the   
   currently mandated 18 months.  The clock will begin ticking when the NEB   
   starts the hearing process.   
      
   The government also announced a set of interim rules, including assessing   
   greenhouse gas emissions, for all major projects, including LNG terminals.   
      
   The Liberal government, which came to power last year, has already effectively   
   closed the door on one major pipeline project, Enbridge Inc's Northern   
   Gateway, with plans for a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the northern   
   coast of British Columbia.   
      
   Environmentalists oppose the pipelines on the grounds that they make it easier   
   to send oil to market and thereby increase emissions of carbon dioxide.   
      
   Political and business leaders in the energy-producing provinces of Alberta   
   and Saskatchewan counter that pipelines are safe and that resources are an   
   important source of income for Canada.   
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