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From: Portland Press Herald
The nonprofit group is seeking a 2008 letter detailing a plan Portland Pipe Line Corp. had to reverse the flow of its Portland-Montreal pipeline to carry tar sands to Maine.
The National Wildlife Federation has filed a federal lawsuit in an
attempt to force the U.S. Department of State to release documents
pertaining to the potential reversal of an oil pipeline to carry
so-called tar sands crude oil from Montreal to South Portland’s
waterfront.
The federation filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Vermont
on Wednesday, according to a news release from the federation.
Jim
Murphy, the federation’s senior counsel, claims the State Department
has failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request made
nearly two years ago for documents that would shed light on plans that
the pipeline’s owner, Portland Pipe Line Corp., may have to reverse its
pipeline.
“State Department has had two years to follow the law
and help ensure the public is educated about the oil industry’s plans to
run risky, climate-disrupting tar sands through New England,” Murphy
said in a prepared statement. “Our patience is exhausted. This
information is critical and it must be provided.”
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