Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel Hearings Schedule Set
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 @ 2:40 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The Joint Review Panel hearings into the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Project will start in Kitimat on the 10th of January and will arrive in Prince George for a hearing on the 18th of January. The schedule has just been released and will see the Prince George hearing being held at the Ramada Hotel and will get underway at 6 p.m.
During these community hearings, the Joint Review Panel will hear oral evidence from registered intervenors first. The schedule for the remaining locations will be released once venue availability and logistics have been confirmed.
Kitimat, BC (Riverlodge Recreation Center, 654 Columbia Avenue West)
January 10 and 11, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Terrace, BC (Sportsplex, 3320 Kalum Street)
January 12, 2012 (starting at 1:00 p.m.)
Smithers, BC (Hudson Bay Lodge and Convention Centre, 3251 East Highway 16)
January 16, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Burns Lake, BC (Island Gospel Fellowship Church, 810 Highway 35)
January 17, 2012 (starting at 1:00 p.m.)
Prince George, BC (Ramada Hotel Downtown, 444 George Street)
January 18, 2012 (starting at 6:00 p.m.)
Edmonton, AB (Wingate Inn Edmonton West Hotel, 18220 – 100th Avenue)
January 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 and 31, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Fort St. James, BC (Royal Canadian Legion, Branch no. 268, 330 – 4th Avenue East)
February 2, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Bella Bella, BC (Heiltsuk Elders Building)
February 3, 2012 (starting at 6:30 p.m.) and 4 February 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Prince Rupert, BC (North Coast Meeting and Convention Centre, 240 – 1st Avenue West)
February 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Masset, BC (Howard Phillips Community Hall, 1590 Cook Street)
February 28, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Queen Charlotte City, BC (Queen Charlotte Community Hall, 134 Bay Street)
February 29, 2012 (starting at 1:00 p.m.)
Grande Prairie, AB (Quality Hotel and Conference Centre, 11201 – 100 Avenue)
March 26, 2012 (starting at 6:00 p.m.) and March 27 and 28, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Courtenay, BC (venue to be determined)
March 30 and 31 and April 2 and 3, 2012 (starting at 9:00 a.m.)
Other B.C. locations where the venue availability and logistics have not yet been confirmed include: Bella Coola, Hartley Bay, Kitkatla, and Klemtu.
After the Panel has heard all oral evidence, it will then hear oral statements and will follow this estimated schedule.
Late March to July 2012 – The Panel will hear oral statements from registered participants who live in or near the proposed Project area.
September to October 2012 – The Panel will hold the final hearings where the applicant, intervenors, government participants and the Panel will question those who have presented oral or written evidence.
November 2012 to March 2013 – The Panel will hear oral statements from registered participants who do not live in or near the proposed Project area (i.e. Kelowna, Port Hardy, Victoria, Vancouver, and Calgary).
April 2013 – The Panel will hear final argument from the applicant, intervenors and government participants.
Based on this projected schedule, the Joint Review Panel anticipates releasing the Environmental Assessment Report in the fall of 2013 and its final decision on the Project around the end of 2013.
Comments
I went to grade 9 in Fort McMurray. Evan then I knew there was something not quite right about the oil sands, even though my parents were working for them indirectly. I went and seen how it was done. A bitument that needs to be thinned with corrosive chemicals before sent through a pipeline. The money now should be used to find alternative energy, if not we got a problem.
That’s only half the story. Enormous amounts of natural gas are required to cook the bitumen out of the sand:
“The standard extraction process requires huge amounts of natural gas. Currently, the oil sands industry uses about 4% of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin natural gas production. By 2015, this may increase 2.5 fold.[55]
According to the National Energy Board, it requires about 1,200 cubic feet (34 m3) of natural gas to produce one barrel of bitumen from in situ projects and about 700 cubic feet (20 m3) for integrated projects.”
The natural gas pipeline to Kitimat has a dual purpose. It is for exporting natural gas, but it can just as easily be used for sending imported natural gas to the oilsands, ensuring that the bitumen extraction industry can run full tilt in case of any emergency.
I still don’t believe that huge amounts of one non-renewable resource (natural gas) are used up to cook another non-renewable resourse (the crude oil or bitumen) from the oil sand deposits.
But that is exactly how they do it!
It’s just so insane really. As insane as going two miles to the bottom of the sea floor, to drill two miles deep to get oil. Then scramble to plug the leak which took four months to do. Meanwhile the leak kills up told amounts of sea life that we will never know died.
“It’s just so insane really.”
Not really. There’s a buck to be made (actually lots of bucks), so they’re doing it.
How’s that mud hut you guys are living in?
“The natural gas pipeline to Kitimat has a dual purpose. It is for exporting natural gas, but it can just as easily be used for sending imported natural gas to the oilsands,”
Lol. In which century would we be *importing* natural gas? Please have some idea what you’re talking about before you wildly speculate.
How about the story regarding the Gitxsan and Enbridge? From what I have read, a large percentage of the Gitxsan don’t want a deal with Enbridge but somehow, someone from the Gitxsan signed a deal. Would like to hear more about this one.
There are hundreds of deep wells all over the world and it turns out that leak was basically a none event environmentally. There are large amounts of natural oil seeps in that area and bacteria feed on that oil. So the oil got ate. Yes there was some damage but no wheres near the damage all the ngo’s where screaming about and they moved on.
The US is producing more oil for the first time in 40 years and with with shale oil in North Dakota they may not need as much oil from us. That is one of the reasons the gateway pipeline will be built and Canada will make more money, as we sell the oil to the US at a discount compared to world prices at this time.
Heres an update on the Gitxsan and Enbridge deal bornandbred.
http://www.terracedaily.ca/show9063a0x300y1z/ELMER_DERRICK_GORDON_SEBASTION__BEV_PERCIVAL_YOURE_FIRED
And heres one on another pipeline project trying to get going.
http://www.redwiremag.com/site/redwire/features/wetsuweten-clans-blockade-pacific-trails-pipelines/
“Lol. In which century would we be *importing* natural gas? Please have some idea what you’re talking about before you wildly speculate.”
It’s not MY idea or My wild speculation. The concept of having a pipeline terminal at Kitimat started out initially as an IMPORT terminal for liquified natural gas! Obviously you haven’t taken any interest in this until just a few weeks ago. With the advent of fracking (I am sure you know what fracking stands for) vast resources of formerly inaccessible natural shale gas became available. Should the practice of fracking (presently being examined and reviewed in respect to environmental damages) become unacceptable the planned pipeline could be used for importing natural gas for the tarsands industry, this having been discussed as an option frequently in the media.
Whatever the reason (admittedly it is not a great possibility) the pipeline could carry imported product in the reverse direction. That is an undisputable fact.
I suppose that’s what I should have expected from someone whose knowledge of the oil and gas industry comes spoon-fed from the media and bunk movies like Gasland. Too bad.
JohnnyBelt you don’t get it do ya. I can see you are still living the 19the century. The pipeline is to dangerous can’t you see that.
JohnnyBelterra has business interests in this pipeline project. Money is all that matters.
Must be a lack of oil eating bacteria in Prince William Sound I suppose hey seamutt?
This site of the Exxon Valdez disaster is still a disaster!
No, I have no interest in the project, but nice guess. I just choose not to be a hypocrite.
That’s a relief! Now I can sleep much better!
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