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After four years of fighting to stop the proposed pipeline project, a network of environmental groups, First Nations, students, faith and local groups along the proposed route say Canadians, and people around the world, should feel relieved that TransCanada has cancelled Energy East. "Today is a great day for the climate and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who stood up to Energy East and its risks to our land, water and communities," said Andrea Harden-Donahue, Energy and Climate Justice Campaigner, Council of Canadians.

"We witnessed a People's Intervention that forced the climate costs of Energy East to the forefront of the pipeline review," added Aurore Fauret, Tar Sands Campaign Coordinator, 350.org. "Over 100,000 messages were sent to the National Energy Board (NEB) demanding it consider all the emissions the project would generate. Close to 2,000 people applied as intervenors, citing climate change as one of their reasons. Two years later, after the NEB accepted to review the climate costs of the pipeline, TransCanada is calling it quits. Other tar sands pipelines like Kinder Morgan aren't being subjected to a climate test and Trudeau's government needs to change that."