Canada's relatively low carbon electricity supply and stable electricity demand is making it challenging for the wind and solar industries to expand their share of the market.
In the past three years, human errors — which covers everything from failing to follow procedures to using equipment improperly — has caused an average of 20 pipeline leaks per year.
“I think it would be fair to say starting from scratch almost, because they’re really restarting from the beginning," said National Energy Board communications officer Marc Drolet.
"One of the things we inherited from the previous government was a high degree of mistrust by Canadians," Trudeau said as he continued his cross−country tour Tuesday.
Canada's embattled federal pipeline regulator is seeking public input on its own modernization. New rules won't apply to projects already underway, the NEB says.
The embattled National Energy Board has proposed new rules requiring pipeline operators to provide more information about how they would respond to emergencies.
Weeks after recusing themselves from the federal review of TransCanada's Energy East project, two National Energy Board members were back on the job, reviewing another TransCanada-linked project.
Less than 24 hours after Canada's federal pipeline regulator named a new Energy East hearing panel, an environmental group in northern Ontario is trying to shut it down.