Enbridge tells lies to make it appear as if there is local support for the Tar Sands pipeline through B.C.

Date:   6/6/2012 2:08:15 PM ( 12 y ago)

Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline - More LIES

The news today is about yet another lie, a devious bit of business by the oil company Enbridge where they employ a tactic used by TransCanada Pipelines on the Keystone route - they falsely claim local support when in fact the majority of locals are opposed. {The Keystone pipeline proposal is the one Pres. Obama personally delayed approval for, until after the coming US federal election.}

The proposed Northern Gateway $5.5-billion pipeline would run from Alberta to the coast of B.C., Canada, moving about 525,000 barrels of diluted TAR SANDS bitumen per day for export by supertankers to Asia, especially China.

Those big tankers will have to navigate the treacherous and fragile ecosystems of the B.C. coastal waters, an area that often has violent storms which will raise the risk considerably.

A spill of the diluted bitumen would be disasterous anywhere along the route, and absolutely catastrophic in the BC coastal waters when, not if, those huge tankers spill. The sticky thick heavy tar sands bitumen [i.e. the "tar"] would cling to the rocky coastline forever. Cleanup would be far more difficult than the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Inland, the Salmon streams would be ruined by a spill because the mix of chemicals used in the pipeline that allow the sticky tar sands bitumen to flow consists of toxin such as BENZENE and methanol and other solvents.

As for today's lying cheating untrustworthy oil company lie, Enbridge spokesman Paul Stanway announced that almost 60 per cent of First Nations along the planned Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline between Alberta and B.C. have signed on to become part owners.

It is simply not true, not even when the Natives outside the route are included [which they admitted doing to pad the numbers].

Quote from CBC news:
"Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt says he has checked with every aboriginal group along the route from Alberta to Kitimat and only found two that have signed equity agreements with Enbridge."

TWO!!! There are 45 First Nations along the pipeline. I am not good at math, but I think that is less than 1%. They cannot be trusted, and nobody in their right mind would sign a contract with such a devious organisation. Apparently, some large sums of money have been paid to natives along the route, so possibly those two that signed were corrupted by selfish desires for money - exactly the kind of thing that Enbridge is good at.



 

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