Environment advocates say Canadian senators are bowing to pressure from the energy industry to gut new environmental-assessment legislation and they fear the Liberal government is going to do the same. The Conservatives, backed by provincial politicians such as Alberta's Premier Jason Kenney, say the process laid out in Bill C-69 would keep important projects from getting past the assessment stage. Kenney was in the capital to present to the Senate about Bill C-69. "The oil and gas industry is running amok in a Senate process and that is scary because they are only one stakeholder." Pro-pipeline supporters rally outside a public hearing of the Senate committee on energy, the environment and natural resources regarding Bill C-69 in Calgary last month.

Source: CBC News May 14, 2019 17:09 UTC