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Happy Anniversary NEB

When the newly named Members of the National Energy Board gathered for their first official Board meeting on August 14, 1959, it's probably safe to say they had a lot on their minds.

They had no staff, no space and in fact, no legal status until the National Energy Board Act was proclaimed later that fall. What they did have, in Chairman Ian N. McKinnon's words, was a "tremendous backlog of applications of national importance awaiting us..."

After a few opening remarks from their Chairman, the five new Board Members hunkered down and got to work. First up on the agenda, was a discussion on finances followed by an item on staffing. By the time the meeting wrapped, the Board had decided that operating without legal counsel was unadvisable, that a good engineer would expect a salary of at least $15,000 annually and that a good librarian was essential to the work of the Board. With these matters settled, Mr. McKinnon left to go see about obtaining some office space.

Exactly fifty years to the minute after Chairman McKinnon called the first meeting of the National Energy Board to order, the Board's current Chair and CEO Gaétan Caron did the same. The agenda looked a little different, but after 50 years of regulatory leadership, the mandate of the National Energy Board remains the same: we are an active, effective and knowledgeable partner in the responsible development of Canada's energy sector for the benefit of Canadians.

Joining Mr. Caron to help celebrate the Board's birthday were many of the Board Members and staff whose dedication and hard work have made the Board's achievements over the past five decades possible:

NEB Board Members past and present

NEB Board Members past and present gather to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Board Meeting held on 14 August 1959.

Seated (Left to Right): Bob Andrew, W.A. (Bill) Scotland, Gaétan Caron, Sheila Leggett, Byron Horner.

Standing (Left to Right): Carmen Dybwad, Patricia McCunn-Miller, Kenneth Bateman, Roland George, Deborah Emes, Lyne Mercier, Rowland J. Harrison, John Bulger, Georgette Habib

 

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2011-10-26