NEB panel steps down amid conflict-of-interest allegations.

摘要

Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that all three members of a panel assigned to evaluate TransCanada's proposed Energy East pipeline have recused themselves. The announcement comes after calls from environmentalist groups claiming that two of the panel members had privately discussed the project in 2015 with former Quebec Premier Jean Charest, who at the time was working as a consultant for TransCanada. There have been calls—most prominently from Quebec's Finance Minister Carlos Leitao—for the review process to be restarted from scratch, but the NEB says that once a new panel is appointed, the review "can and will proceed."