Energy Board calls public to rate Enbridge's pipe plan

A call is underway to assess a pipeline’s expansion plan.

The National Energy Board is taking applications from concerned citizens this week to evaluate Enbridge's 9-B pipeline project.

Alberta's oil-and-gas distributor wants to have it carry bitumen from oil-sands operations.

It also wants the line to reverse the current flow and increase capacity.

*Pipeline 9-B is 639 kilometers long and passes thru Montreal, Laval, Toronto and Hamilton.

Ontario residents living on land passing thru by the pipeline filed their applications so far.

They include First Nations people and oil-and-gas industry workers.

But one from Quebec has applied yet.

Yves-François Blanchet is Quebec's Environment Minister.

He said in a report by The Montreal Gazette that the provincial government will do it's own review.

He has yet to provide details.

STORY WRITTEN BY: SATURN DE LOS ANGELES