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VICTORIA — The B.C. NDP government won’t join Alberta and others in seeking major changes to Bill C-69, the federal legislative makeover for approving major energy projects.

The legislation, now before the Senate, has drawn fire from Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, the governments of Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Ontario, as well as industry groups and economic think tanks.

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B.C. will soon send a representative of its own to the Senate hearings on the bill. But Environment Minister George Heyman says the presentation will be mostly “supportive.”

The B.C. New Democrats found more things to like than dislike in Ottawa’s combined Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act, Heyman told me last week.

The federal legislation overlaps significantly with the NDP’s revised B.C. Environmental Assessment Act, passed by the legislature last fall.

“There are a lot of common principles contained in the B.C. and the federal legislation,” says Heyman.