The spokesperson for the Red Head Anthony’s Cove Preservation Association, which opposes Energy East, is questioning the results of a recent poll on the pipeline project.
Lynaya Astephen tells us she doesn’t trust the poll from Corporate Research Associates which finds that 69-percent of people in the province support the project as compared to 66-percent three years ago, and wonders who they spoke to and what the questions were.
“I find it hard to believe that there’s more people supporting the pipeline with this information out with the panelists that had to recuse themselves and with a new federal government talking about climate change, dealing with climate change, so I don’t trust that poll,” says Astephen.
The poll also states that the pipeline has more support in northern and southern New Brunswick than the Moncton area.
“In northern New Brunswick, in Edmunston, that’s where the pipeline is going through their water supply,” says Astephen. “So it makes no sense that people are supporting the pipeline up there.”
Those who live in the Red Head and Anthony’s Cove area, where TransCanada is looking to build a marine terminal and a tank farm for the Energy East project, didn’t hold back when it came to criticizing the Calgary-based company at the National Energy Board hearing in Saint John.
