National Energy Board

This introduction contains the National Energy Board’s (Board or NEB) overall conclusions and recommendations with respect to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (Project). It also sets the context for how the Board approached the Reconsideration it was directed to undertake by the Governor in Council (GIC), and contains remarks on some of the multifaceted considerations that informed the Board’s conclusions. This includes details regarding the holistic, systemic and precautionary approach that the Board took to examining and addressing effects likely to be caused by the Project on the Salish Sea and its complex and interconnected ecosystem. This introduction should be read together with – and not in isolation from – the detailed reasons that follow in the subsequent chapters of this report.