In a statement released on 5 October, TransCanada announced the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects. This August, despite a comprehensive, expensive, and collaborative effort on TransCanada’s behalf, the five year application process – which included hundreds of community open houses and meetings, hundreds of consultation sessions with Indigenous communities along the route, and saw support from thousands of Canadians across the country – encountered yet another hurdle with the National Energy Board’s (NEB) decision to include upstream and downstream emissions in the project review.