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The National Energy Board’s final report on the Energy East pipeline project should be completed by March 2018, the federal regulator said Tuesday.

Consultations with communities along the proposed pipeline route will begin in August and a preliminary timeline has the report being issued 19 months later. The fate of the pipeline ultimately rests with the federal government, which will take the NEB’s final report into account before announcing a decision on the project.

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Ottawa will also be presented with Quebec’s ruling on the pipeline, which is scheduled to come down in June 2018.

The Quebec government recently announced a revised schedule of hearings into the portion of the pipeline that travels over its territory, telling the company promoting the pipeline in a letter that public consultations should resume in October.

Quebec’s BAPE (the French-language acronym for the environment review body) should have its report on the project ready by February, the letter stated, followed by another review of the project by the provincial Environment Department in March 2018.