[All] Next Step: CCLA

[Louisette Lanteigne]

  Hi folks
The NEB has no documents to suggest they ever permitted transfer of assets including Line 9, from Enbridge Pipeline Inc. to Enbridge Income Fund. No do they have any other CPCN certificate for Line 9 other than the original permit issued in 1970's.  No document suggests they ever authorized transfers of assets including pipelines to Enbridge or from Enbridge Pipeline Inc. to Enbridge Income Fund. This was the paperwork I was demanding to see since February 2014. I made a repeat request in June and August 2014. If transfers of assets took place and the NEB did not permit this, it violates section 21 and 74 of the NEB Act. 
In response I contacted the following agencies:
TSSA: Technical Standards and Safety Bureau
TSB: Transportation Safety Board of CanadaCollege of Skills and TradeMinistry of Labour both Provincial (ON) and FederalOntario Provincial PoliceRCMP
Not one single agency questioned the merits of the concerns. All these agencies simply stated it is not an issue within their jurisdictional power to address. 
The OPP officer I was working with, Sgt. Daniel Anthony was very helpful and then he was removed off the case. The other officer who took over,  Sgt. Gralewicz wrote the following to me: 
Please stop sending us e-mails about the above matter. It is not our mandate to investigate this type of complaint. ...If you continue to send e-mails I will have them automatically sent to my delete file and I will not read them. 
If you review the response from the NEB, it's pretty much the same concept.
I feel like my freedom of speech is impaired. The NEB and the Police told me to not talk to them about these issues, yet the concerns are not frivolous or vexatious at all. There simply is no documented proof the NEB allowed for the transfer of assets including Line 9. Even Enbridge's Graham White admits they transferred the assets. 
When a potentially unauthorized entity is working on a pipeline, how can the OPP, TSSA, RCMP and other regulators deem such issues are beyond their jurisdiction?
Why would the NEB allow the transfer these assets during the hydrostatic tests? 
The concerns I have were already validated with the discussions I have had with professional economists. One went so far as to consult with solicitors on my behalf. This is a serious issue which can render the total NEB process for Line 9 as unlawful. 
I have documented proof of not only being silenced in regards to this particular issue,  but throughout the NEB Process. 
The NEB willfully negated to cross examine of experts at both the Line 9 hearings I participated in. During Line 9 phase 1 they literally called lack of cross exam "a success."  They knowingly rushed the process and ignored the need for Crown Consultation and out of 44,000 letters of comments, there were only 18 intervenors total. 
At the beginning of the Line 9 phase 1 hearing the CEA Act (Canadian Environmental Assessment Act) applied to the hearing process, but once CEA Act 2012 was inacted, the Environmental Screening Report was converted to a NEB Act Environmental Assessment Report during Harper's Omnibus bill. This also gave elected officials veto power over NEB decisions. They changed the rules between the time of the hearing and the final verdict and applied the new laws in between! That may be why the decision in the the Darcie Harding memo is blacked out. Under the old law this may not have passed. The proof is in the attachments. 

The NEB spied on me. I secured proof by Freedom of Information. Many were pages that were part of the NEB's "Media Monitoring" which featured my twitter messages and yet NEB staff stated to the Waterloo Chronicle that the board doesn't actually have access to these documents at all: http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/who-watches-the-watchers/
So why are the Board gathering data they are not allowed to review,  featuring social media comments by private citizens like me? The drop box account to the FOI documents I secured are online here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4x1m5fmo7b910b/NEB_DM_PROD-%23825868-v1-Release_package.PDF?dl=0
So in response I did the only thing left that I can do. I filed a formal complaint with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. I have been stonewalled by regulators, ministry and police. There is no other option for me personally right now to do anything further. The CCLA has everything. 
I'll let you know what becomes of this.
Louisette Lanteigne




  
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