On Monday morning, roughly 36 lawyers in black gowns shuffled into the province’s highest court, the B.C. in its appeals court reference case asking whether it has the power to regulate bitumen flowing through the province from Alberta. have the right to issue or deny permits for diluted bitumen from the Alberta oilsands on environmental grounds? The Trans Mountain expansion would see oil tanker traffic increase sevenfold through Vancouver’s port and bitumen flow triple from the current pipeline. Several of the Appeals Court judges Monday interrupted Arvay’s opening statement, asking pointed questions about his arguments on B.C.’s constitutional rights.

Source: thestar March 19, 2019 02:03 UTC