transmountainpipelineIan Stephen from the Waterwealth Project says he’s concerned that three communities, including Hope, who have signed benefits deals with Kinder Morgan have done little or nothing in their role as intervenors in the National Energy Board hearings on the Transmountain Pipeline project.

Stephen says Clearwater and Hope have submitted no documents and have missed information and evidence deadlines, while Kamloops has only put in one information request.

“Even if there is no connection between these deals with Transmountain and their lack of participation in the process that they applied to participate in, it leaves room for people to wonder.”

The City of Chilliwack deferred a similar offer until after the hearings.

Stephen says Waterwealth has filed a motion to the NEB asking that Kinder Morgan be forced to stop negotiating deals with intervenors that are dependent on a successful hearing, and to void existing deals.