On November 8, 2016, Natural Resources Minister Carr announced the members of the Expert Panel that
will provide recommendations on modernizing the National Energy
Board (NEB). The members of the NEB Modernization Expert Panel are
David Besner, Wendy Grant-John, Brenda Kenny, Hélène
Lauzon (co-chair) and Gary Merasty (co-chair). The panel
members' areas of expertise include policy, energy, business,
environment, scientific, regional and Indigenous knowledge.
This is the next step in an initiative that is intended to satisfy the
Liberal Government's commitment to review and restore
confidence in Canada's environmental and regulatory
processes.
As we previously wrote, the stated goal of the Government's
plan to "modernize" the NEB is "to ensure its
composition reflects regional views and has sufficient expertise in
such fields as environmental science, community development and
Indigenous traditional knowledge." According to an earlier Press Release, "modernization of
