North America's longest proposed pipeline is facing a new hurdle after a coalition of Canadian environmental groups sent a letter today slamming the project as a "fiasco" and demanding regulators quash it. In the letter, the groups take aim at a lack of public input on TransCanada's Energy East pipeline, the potential threats to drinking water and the Bay of Fundy, and the pipeline's impact on climate change. Climate groups are also planning protests in Ontario and New Brunswick, so as summer approaches we'll likely see a lot more opposition in the pipeline's path. The mounting tension comes amid support from the premiers of the two provinces bookending the proposed pipeline, which would carry 1.1 million barrels of crude per day from oil rich Alberta to New Brunswick's coast.

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