MONTREAL—Protesters chanting anti-pipeline slogans forced the cancellation Monday of the first day of hearings in Montreal into TransCanada’s Energy East project. The head of the hearings for the National Energy Board said the federal regulatory body will try to resume proceedings Tuesday. “TransCanada will not pass,” screamed one protester as police dragged him away from a downtown conference room. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, along with the mayor of Laval and other municipal representatives, walked out of the hearings not long after the demonstrators charged in. Coderre was the first person scheduled to give testimony Monday but chose instead to leave, calling the protests a “masquerade.”

Source: thestar August 29, 2016 15:45 UTC