<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style="">Enbridge, TransCanada, Spectra & Kinder Morgan provide most of Canada's National Energy Board's budget. It is 90% sponsored by industry. A 2000 report on the board's effectiveness by Purvin & Gertz (there's only one copy at the board's excellent library and no, it's not available online) shockingly noted that NEB had no plans for pipeline abandonment and "no environmental policies and standards" either.<br style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
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