More recently and most prominently, Paul was the Director of Environment and Land for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project. Likely the most controversial project in recent Canadian history, the Northern Gateway Project involved twin 2000 km pipelines from Bruderheim, Alberta, to Kitimat, British Columbia. The eastbound pipeline was intended to import natural gas condensate while the westbound pipeline would export diluted bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands to the marine terminal in Kitimat for transportation to the Asian markets by oil tankers. The project proposed terminal facilities with integrated marine infrastructure at tidewater to accommodate loading and unloading of oil and condensate tankers and marine transportation of oil and condensate. Paul was responsible for the environmental assessment of the entire project under the Joint Panel Review process under the auspices of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the National Energy Board. Paul was actively involved in the land and consultation aspects of the project, involved in well over 50 open houses and providing technical information in Aboriginal Communities across the length of the pipeline. In 2012-13, Paul was also responsible for providing expert witness testimony and being Enbridge’s policy witness on six expert witness panels before the Joint Review Panel and National Energy Board. Based in part on the environmental assessment, nearly 200,000 pages of filed evidence and the 180-day public hearing process, the Northern Gateway Pipeline received preliminary environmental and government approval based on 209 certificate conditions.