"...you have to wonder why the feds did not hold it to the same environmental standards as it did Energy East."

Yet, the McInnis cement plant in Quebec, which will produce more GHG's than any other industrial operation in the province, gets the go-ahead from the province of Quebec and a blind eye from the feds. The project was not subject to environmental review board hearings because it was proposed before the current hearings process existed.
Furthermore, to guarantee the construction of the project the Couillard government passed a law that the cement plant would not be required to undergo an environment review.

Not only does this Quebec cement plant not require an environmental review, it does not have to consider the impact of upstream and downstream GHG emission impacts !

How's that for hypocrisy !