They are saying the cost for the BC coast is a mere $175 million in royalties and 200 jobs. Not worth the payout IMO.

One only has to look at the human error factor… the Queen of the North, the Exxon Valdez, the Italian cruise ship… all on paper were low risk enterprise with the latest in technology employed to ensure they never hit ground… all hit ground due to human error and not what was hypothetically possible on paper as ‘the facts’.

It should be a wake up call that it is very possible human error will happen again, and if it does can the Alberta tar sands ever be cleaned up from a major spill?

That said if Canada did force BC to lift its moratorium on oil tankers on the BC north coast… then shipment by rail would be far more preferable getting tar sands to the coast, rather than a pipeline in the geology of the Coastal Mountains. At least a rail line has easy access to any potential spill and any potential spill will be very limited in scope and identified immediately… unlike a pipeline in the wilderness crossing inaccessible rivers and valley’s.

Looking at the Italian cruise liner should be a wake up call for all involved IMO. You simply can not get facts and only facts as to when human error will happen and human error will happen is the only fact I can see.

BTW Hypothetically if the Gateway pipeline did go ahead it wouldn’t be until 2025 until the $1.6 billion Harper HST bribe was paid back with the royalties collected by the Gateway pipeline.

So the first 10-years of risk to BC’s coast comes with virtually zero payback that will ever benefit BC. One fact is that the rest of Canada cares very little about the cost to BC and will be nowhere to be seen with any dollars when a major spill does happen… its all gain and no pain for them and yet they get to make the decision?

I say Cristy Clark is a poor leader for not voicing the opinion of the majority in BC who oppose this project. She trembles in Harper’s wake and will do anything he asks of her. BC is truely lacking leadership at this critical time….

According to the university of Calgary, BC would receive $15.3 million per year, do the math, it`s right here, and where is Christy Clark, if she twiddles ans twaddles, if she waits until after Harper rams it through, you think Big oil or Alberta is going to say hey, BC, you deserve more!…Furthermore, the gulf spill has cost $40 billion, it`s an open bathtub, the KAlamazoo spill by Enbridge, $900 million, so far, and it aint cleaned.

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The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy issued an analysis Thursday concluding that with expanded pipeline access to U.S. and Asian markets, Canada’s gross domestic product would jump $132 billion in 2010 dollars between 2016 and 2030, generating $27 billion in federal, provincial and municipal taxes and 649,000 person-years of employment.

But the study also shows that the overwhelming economic benefit of pipeline expansion to B.C. goes to Alberta.

The opening of the Asian market would trigger $10.5 billion in gains and 52,000 person-years of employment in Canada, but almost $10 billion of that wealth and 44,000 person-years go to Alberta.

Ontario would get $286 million and 4,000 person-years, while B.C. would enjoy $131 million and 2,000 person-years.

The study also “suggests” that B.C. would gain an additional $85 million in GDP and another 1,000 person-years due to increased exports to California if pipelines are built to the West Coast.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/business/decision+pipeline+will+signal+world+Alberta+premier+says/5867912/story.html#ixzz1gsTYLF5a

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$14.3 million per year people!…After the life of the project BC wouldn`t get enough for a 1/4 of a new BC place roof…And Enbridge admits that their pipe will spill 1000`s of barrels per year!..

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/01/12/HughesReport/

Enbridge admits there will be spills..

http://thecanadian.org/item/1262-enbridge-admits-there-will-be-spills-rafe-mair

Why do some people talk about BC and Alberta as if they were two different countries? I thought they were both in Canada.

The Harper Government (it used to be the Canadian Government) has the final say and it already let it be known in no uncertain terms that it WILL go ahead.

This review panel will go through the exercise of the review as required by political correctness and democracy.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the pipes are already being manufactured and the keels have been laid for the super tankers.

Yes we are in the same country but job wise and risk we are getting screwed. The following can also apply to the pipe line and all the oil and gas work in the northeast. Money leaving BC big time.

So why does this government hate BC’s workers so much? With the Premier trying to promote a “Families First” and a “BC Jobs Plan” agenda, why are good BC jobs being awarded to Alberta companies owned by parent company Quanta Services from Texas? Over a billion dollars in transmission line construction contracts have been awarded by BC Hydro to Alberta based companies Valard Construction, RS Line Contr. Co. Ltd. and McGregor Construction 2000 Ltd. (subcontracted through Graham-Flatiron). All of these jobs now go to Alberta workers who pay personal income taxes to Alberta – roughly $1.5 million in personal taxes leaving the province instead of staying here in BC. And what about the corporate taxes these companies will pay going to Alberta and Texas? It doesn’t sound like a “BC Jobs Plan” to me.

Your geography is correct Johnnybelt but there is a difference between what this means to Alberta and the feds than what it means to BC. BC will get less than 1% of the benefit and a huge amount of risk.

Since this development is being rammed down our throats, I believe the best we can do is force more benefit with less risk.

At least two things are needed to change the equation:

One is that an export tax be added to OUR NATIONAL OIL AND GAS. This is justified by the fact that the pipeline will not only allow an additional market to be accessed but that the premium prices paid for this oil is over 10% above North American prices.

The second thing is that the exporters of the oil are made responsible for their product and whatever might happen with it until it is 200 miles from our shores. That means that the oil companies themselves are on the hook as well as the pipeline company for anything that is spent to clean up whatever messes might occur.

Why should we deserve anything less?

Johnny Belt an Enbridge mole. Anything to do with Enbridge he is for. Wouldn’t matter if BC got even less than squat and they had to cut down every tree, dam every river and drain every lake to get this pipeline to the coast, he would still be for it. Why else would anyone who is a regular working stiff want to see something like this go through for so little return? How can anyone truly say BC is part of Canada when our concerns and those of the aboriginals of this province are simply shoved aside? If thats’ what it means to be a part of Canada, I say it’s time to look into separating from this dictatorship. Besides, I have always been from BC first, Canada second. I’m a BCer before anything.

Anyone ever think of the number of people from BC who have moved to Alberta and now work for the oil industy?? People from all over Canada work in Alberta. The Province itself could never supply the number of people necessary to exploit these oil sands, and the oil industry in general.

Its all part of Canada. Some people would say that without Alberta jobs in the last 5 years we would have been in serious trouble.

This oil will move one way or the other, and it will be used by the Americans and Chinese. We will just supply it, the same as we do, wheat, coal, lumber, iron ore, concentrates, potash, sulphur, etc;. We supply the raw materials, they supply the finished product.

Who or what group of people in Canada, is doing anything to change how we do business.?

An Enbridge mole? No.

All I have seen is a very effective “no at all costs” campaign based on fears and mis-information, and perpetuated by the media.

How about some real discussion about how we can make this project work? How about a real discussion of how we can mitigate and lessen the risks associated? How about looking at how we can make this a win-win? Nobody seems to want to talk about that.

Ok, let’s continue to dig our heels in. Let the fear and hand-wringing continue.

You can only have a two-way conversation to come up with a win-win situation when you can believe what either side is saying. When they are trying to shove this thing down our throats at all costs, backed by the Chinese no less, regardless of the concerns of the people most affected. How can you trust anything that side says? How can you trust a govt who has lied and cheated to the very people who elected them, and continue to do that to this day? Sadly, it’s got to the point where a lot of people simply don’t trust big business or govt to do the right thing. And the collapse of the world economy and countless govt scandals over the years just reinforces that skepticism. Maybe after these companys and govt start actually listening to the people and showing they really do care about the constituents rather than making sure they and their friends are set for life, maybe then we can start working together. We wond the HST referendum, and quess what, we are still paying HST to this day, and I am sure we won’t be getting a reimbusement check anytime soon.

How can anyone say this being ramed down our throats? We have years of hearings, anyone with a pulse can go before the panel, the outcome is far from clear. If this was being “Rammed down our throats” construction would be well underway.

Using data from Enbridge’s own reports, the Polaris Institute calculated that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999 and 2010. These spills released approximately 168,645 barrels (26,812.4 m3) of hydrocarbons into the environment.

On July 4, 2002 an Enbridge pipeline ruptured in a marsh near the town of Cohasset, Minnesota in Itasca County, spilling 6,000 barrels (950 m3) of crude oil. In an attempt to keep the oil from contaminating the Mississippi River, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources set a controlled burn that lasted for 1 day and created a smoke plume about 1-mile (1.6 km) high and 5 miles (8.0 km) long.

In 2006, there were 67 reportable spills totaling 5,663 barrels (900.3 m3) on Enbridge’s energy and transportation and distribution system; in 2007, there were 65 reportable spills totaling 13,777 barrels (2,190.4 m3)

On March 18, 2006, approximately 613 barrels (97.5 m3) of crude oil were released when a pump failed at Enbridge’s Willmar terminal in Saskatchewan.[11] According to Enbridge, roughly half the oil was recovered, the remainder contributing to ‘off-site’ impacts.

On January 1, 2007 an Enbridge pipeline that runs from Superior, Wisconsin to near Whitewater, Wisconsin cracked open and spilled ~50,000 US gallons (190 m3) of crude oil onto farmland and into a drainage ditch.[12] The same pipeline was struck by construction crews on February 2, 2007, in Rusk County, Wisconsin, spilling ~126,000 US gallons (480 m3) of crude. Some of the oil filled a hole more than 20 feet (6.1 m) deep and was reported to have contaminated the local water table.

In April 2007, roughly 6,227 barrels (990.0 m3) of crude oil spilled into a field downstream of an Enbridge pumping station near Glenavon, Saskatchewan. Long-term site remediation is being attempted to bring the site to “as close as possible to its original condition”.]

In 2009, Enbridge Energy Partners, a US affiliate of Enbridge Inc., agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit brought against the company by the state of Wisconsin for 545 environmental violations. In a news release from Wisconsin’s Department of Justice, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said “…the incidents of violation were numerous and widespread, and resulted in impacts to the streams and wetlands throughout the various watersheds.”[The violations were incurred while building portions of the company’s Southern Access pipeline, a ~$2.1 billion project to transport crude from the oil sands region in Alberta to Chicago.

In January 2009 an Enbridge pipeline leaked about 4,000 barrels (640 m3) of oil southeast of Fort McMurray at the company’s Cheecham Terminal tank farm. It was reported in the Edmonton Journal that most of the spilled oil was contained within berms, but that about 1% of the oil, about 40 barrels (6.4 m3), sprayed into the air and coated nearby snow and trees.]

April 2010 an Enbridge pipeline ruptured spilling more than 1500 litres of oil in Virden, Manitoba, which leaked into the Boghill Creek which eventually connects to the Assiniboine River.]

July 2010, a leaking pipeline spilled an estimated 843,444 US gallons (3,192.78 m3) of crude oil into Talmadge Creek leading to the Kalamazoo River in southwest Michigan on Monday, July 26.

On September 9, 2010, a rupture on Enbridge’s Line 6A pipeline near Romeoville, Illinois released an estimate 6,100 barrels (970 m3) of oil into the surrounding area.[

Exactly, dow7500. Unfortunately, the hearings are full of people (many of whom don’t even live in BC or Canada) yelling ‘no’ over and over again with their hands cupped over their ears.

No meaningful dialogue can take place in this environment.

Something has got to be done, this Province CANNOT take such a big risk from these big oil tycoons. The risk is too great.
I agree with other bloggers that these oil barons need to be responsible, with their lives and their families lives if there is a spill. I mean God forbid that B.C. should have an earth quake, will they not be responsible pending AN ACT OF GOD!
Put your pipeline up and around B.C. and through Alaska EH!

Why on earth should BC be used in this way? No reward is worth the risk this poses. Certainly, the couple of hundred temporary jobs is insufficient (even IF they materialize), and any ‘reassurances’ from the oil companies should be given the consideration they deserve – none!

When you have every native band up and down the coast of BC saying NO to any tanker traffic along the shores of BC then there is no need for a pipeline because it won’t have anywhere to go. Only a treasonous BC govt would allow a pipeline to cross BC into Alaska and would cause a revolt the likes of which Canada has never seen before. Not a protest, but an actual revolt, because people are sick and tired of being pushed aside in favour of big company profits. If it was truly about bringing wealth to BC it might have a chance, but we all know the vast majority of BCers won’t even notice the so-called profits.

They must go through the review process even if they already know the ultimately verdict is approval, because a review is required by law

To johnnybelt I would ask the question of what do you know to be true of what is being stated as the benefit to Canadians from this pipeline?

I would suggest that you, me and most Canadians actually know very little about the long term effects that this will have on BC or Alberta or the Canadian economy or environment as a whole. I would also suggest that there are as many people who are supporting this project with “hands cupped over their ears” as you suggest are against it.It is not that hard to understand that people are skeptical of the sales pitch behind this part of a project that involves Trillions of dollars.
When someone is told we are to recieve a few billion of these trillions then things become fuzzy as to what that actually means.

What isn’t such a fuzzy thing is when Canada’s energy reserves are depleted. More important is when will our energy costs begin to follow those of the premium prices which will be paid by the recieving countries of our oil?We already pay higher prices than the US does for transportation fuels and how much more can we pay before all other things go broke?

When the Enbridge and Keystone lines are built(and they will be built) what will be the limiting factor as to how fast profit oriented corporations will take to exhaust our reserves? No other country is more vulnerable to transportation costs than Canada as even the Russians will be smarter than we are being with our energy reserves.

Why would we contemplate such an outcome knowing that we are going to end up in the worst possible predicament where all of our industries will become uncompetetive because of fuel costs. As enormous as the tar sands are they will not offset the rest of the economic losses attributed to destroying the rest of our economy. What wealth of the tarsands will be distributed to the Canadians who own that resource?

So when someone says this is good for employment I ask if the tarsands can employ the displaced workers of most other industries? When someone says that these are very high paid jobs I ask if they want to pay a freight fuel surcharge of 20 dollars for a jug of milk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVRuelvJ-s&feature=player_embedded#!

Pour yourself a drink and grab a comfy chair!

http://forestethics.org/downloads/HUGHES_Northern_Gateway_Pipeline_November_2011.pdf

Harper is scamming Canada,,We still import 52% of our own domestic oil from Saudi Arabia, 52%..There is plenty of capacity in existing lines,

Harper is a bald-faced con man

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/01/12/HughesReport/

the truth is in this report.

This will be the mother of all wars, .

Those wanting to preserve Salmon and Orca for future generations to see will win the day, Harper will fall hard!

Foresight, good post. All I am saying is that I would like to see some balanced discussion. The media has already taken its side, and caused fear in the masses.

People are generally ignorant about pipelines and that there are many pipelines in the world operating safely. I will say that the gas and oil industry has done a generally poor job of getting the good news out about their industry and the benefit they provide to the Canadian economy.

People around here know forestry, but they don’t know about gas and oil, and that fuels a lot of the fear.

I’m betting that the pipeline will go through, why can’t we talk about how we can make it as safe as possible?

China now controls Ottawa!

“Forget James Bond and how you ever pictured espionage to work. It’s all about influence these days, according to the head of Canada’s intelligence agency.
In an exclusive interview with CBC News, the head of CSIS, Richard Fadden, revealed a number of Canadian politicians are under the influence of other nations. Fadden told CBC News that CSIS suspected several higher-level provincial Canadian politicians have become compromised by foreign influence, saying

“We’re in fact a bit worried in a couple of provinces that we have an indication that there’s some political figures who have developed quite an attachment to foreign countries.”

The problem with that ‘attachment,’ Fadden explained, is

“The individual becomes in a position to make decisions that affect the country or the province or a municipality. All of a sudden, decisions aren’t taken on the basis of the public good but on the basis of another country’s preoccupations.”

According to Fadden, municipal politicians are also under the sway of foreign influences.
Fadden told CBC News that Canadian politicians and their staff had no idea they were being manipulated by foreigners. Fadden only named British Columbia, but hinted there were other politicians in other provinces across Canada who had become compromised.
Fadden explained why he was breaking silence so publicly, saying

“… I’m making this comment because I think it’s a real danger that people be totally oblivious to this kind of issue.”

Fadden said foreign countries recruited Canadian university students, cultivating them to become ‘people of influence,’ naming China as the most aggressive of the five nations pursuing this tactic.

“Before you know it, a country is providing them with money, there’s some sort of covert guidance.”

Fadden wrapped up his interview by saying Canada’s approach of focusing on preventing terrorism left Canada’s technology at risk of being poached by foreign nations through espionage.
Fadden failed to explain why foreign nations were interested in manipulating Canadian politicians, nor the manner in how they were manipulated. He also did not say how much money was being funnelled to foreign nations through the influence game, nor if politicians and staffers would be investigated on the basis of his allegations.
CBC News reported in a follow-up Wednesday that security experts are perplexed by Fadden’s public disclosure. Just to confuse the matter”

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/293757#ixzz1jgVDn8wH

This definately explains the actions of a one..

Stephen Treason Harper!

Enbridge pipeline will not be allowed to proceed, Harper will be removed from office first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=dOKmeV-sBEU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrC7akwGsI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5azrCfzlk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXaYZVGw44&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlnri_scklA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Enbridge+subsidiaries+reported+pipeline+leaks+since+2002+data/5987526/story.html

805 Enbridge pipelines spills, including this going on right now in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/enbridge-reports-leak-from-us-pipeline-as-northern-gateway-hearings-begin/article2298173/

Treason Harper……if the intension of your posts is to have your cause taken seriously…..you have officially flushed it.

Harper is insane and controlled by the Chinese, what was his price, certainly not his soul for harper doesn`t have one..

Fadden from Canada`s spy agency(CSIS) was right, Harper`s off to China again next month, Gordon Campbell is going there too.

Christy Clark just returned from a week is Communist, dictatorship china, it`s all very clear now that the Chinese now own Harper.

Harper was on the CBC National tonight, Mansbridge asked Harper this question…

“How come, when Eastern Canada imports all it`s oil from Saudi Arabia would we run a pipeline West, shouldn`t we secure Canadian oil supply first”

Harper danced around the question, he squirmed, Harper was angry, seething beneath the surface, Mansbridge nailed him, Canada is importing 52% of its oil and Harper is bedding down with Communists.

Sheesh

Harper cut /slashed 230 food inspectors today from CFIA(Canadian food inspection agency)..

I guess Stephen Treason Harper doesn`t care about the 45 Canadians killed through listerious..

Slash, Burn, Scorsh, while lowering corporate taxes and racking up $hundreds of billions in debt, just exactly like what Gordon Campbell did..

Time to remove these traitors!

Hey dow, criminalmind is just like the crazy guy screaming to himself on the street corner. Just smile and walk on by.

Enbridge lied their faces off, the Supreme court ruled that Elmer Derrick had ZERO authority to sign any agreement, deal was officially voided..Enbridge lied about Haisla First Nation support, Haisla Nation has demanded retraction…

Enbridge will fail, so will Stephen Treason Harper

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2012/01/breaking-news-elmer-derrick-and-gitxsan.html

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/12/24/haida-nation-blasts-enbridge-about-deliberately-misleading-info-in-northern-gateway-filing/

What we should get out of the pipeline is a committment that petroleum product prices in BC to British Columbia citizens will decline from current levels at least proportional to the per cent of increase in the overall cost of living the construction of the pipeline will cause.
Enbridge and the exporting oil companies to rebate every British Columbian for our purchases of such products.

We are currently completely overlooking the ‘inflation’ that will undoubtedly occur as the result of this project going ahead.

That hurts all of us, as we watch our incomes shrink in terms of what they will buy. And we’ll suffer further while those that can try to play catch-up, and end up just increasing prices further. Which then only hurts us again in our efforts to control the costs of other products.

If this project is supposed to be so beneficial to *us*, then why doesn’t each British Columbia consumer of petroleum products get a break out of it?

When the oil is gone, it’s gone. But prices will rise faster than incomes, and that never changes.

The Alaskans, every man, woman and child, regularly get an “oil dividend” personally from the investment of royalties collected on North Slope oil.

Alberta used to have a “Heritage Fund” that was supposed to do the same thing, back when Social Credit was in office there.

We aren’t giving up “our” oil in this case, but we should get more than the $ 15 million or so the government of BC will collect annually. Since it’s the purchasing power of our incomes that will take a hit when the pipeline is constructed.

That should be offset by effectively reducing the price of all petroleum products directly to every BC consumer on each purchase. Considering our population, and the volume of oil to be exported, that’s a small cost for “global oil” to bear for the use of a pipeline and port in BC.

You are correct, my calculations are, The Enbridge Northern pipeline will cost BC Drivers $700 million dollars per year, it will cost Canada $7.5 billion dollars per year in higher fuel prices..

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2012/01/enbridge-northern-gateway-pipeline-will.html

Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Will Cost BC Drivers $700 million Every Single Year

Here is the latest weather forecast for Hecate Strait on the Northern West Coast, cut n pasted from Environment Canada.

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Marine Forecast
Winds
Issued 10:30 AM PST 03 January 2012
Today Tonight and Wednesday Hurricane force wind warning in effect.
Wind southeast 45 to 55 knots diminishing to 25 to 35 near noon then increasing to 35 to 45 early this evening. Wind increasing to south 55 to 65 late this evening then diminishing to 35 to 45 before Wednesday morning. Wind diminishing to south 25 to 35 early Wednesday morning then veering to southwest 30 to 40 Wednesday afternoon.
Waves
Issued 04:00 AM PST 03 January 2012
Today Tonight and Wednesday Seas 2 to 3 metres building to 3 to 4 early this morning and to 5 to 7 late this morning. Seas building to 7 to 10 after midnight.(That would be 34 foot high waves)
Extended Forecast
Issued 04:00 AM PST 03 January 2012
Thursday Wind southwest 30 to 40 knots diminishing to northwest 25 in the afternoon.
Friday Wind southeast 35 to 45 knots diminishing to southwest 20 late in the day.
Saturday Wind south 25 knots increasing to southeast 45.
Weather & Visibility
Issued 10:30 AM PST 03 January 2012
Today Tonight and Wednesday Rain at times heavy.

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The above weather forecast was cut n pasted from Weather Canada

Hurricane force winds again, every month there are hurricane force winds on our northern coast, with 1 to 2 oil tankers per day, they will pile up, big ships 4 times the length of a football field, these vessels under pressure would indeed travel in this weather, they would also wreck on our coast and destroy it for centuries, not if a spill happens but when, Enbridge can`t guarantee anything, their own records prove out that fact!!!!!!….The fact that Enbridge has had 804 major pipeline spills in the last 10 years, they average nearly 100 major pipeline ruptures per year..FACT, FACT, FACT…..
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Spills and violations
Using data from Enbridge’s own reports, the Polaris Institute calculated that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999 and 2010. These spills released approximately 168,645 barrels (26,812.4 m3) of hydrocarbons into the environment.[8]
On July 4, 2002 an Enbridge pipeline ruptured in a marsh near the town of Cohasset, Minnesota in Itasca County, spilling 6,000 barrels (950 m3) of crude oil. In an attempt to keep the oil from contaminating the Mississippi River, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources set a controlled burn that lasted for 1 day and created a smoke plume about 1-mile (1.6 km) high and 5 miles (8.0 km) long.[9]
In 2006, there were 67 reportable spills totaling 5,663 barrels (900.3 m3) on Enbridge’s energy and transportation and distribution system; in 2007, there were 65 reportable spills totaling 13,777 barrels (2,190.4 m3) [10]
On March 18, 2006, approximately 613 barrels (97.5 m3) of crude oil were released when a pump failed at Enbridge’s Willmar terminal in Saskatchewan.[11] According to Enbridge, roughly half the oil was recovered, the remainder contributing to ‘off-site’ impacts.
On January 1, 2007 an Enbridge pipeline that runs from Superior, Wisconsin to near Whitewater, Wisconsin cracked open and spilled ~50,000 US gallons (190 m3) of crude oil onto farmland and into a drainage ditch.[12] The same pipeline was struck by construction crews on February 2, 2007, in Rusk County, Wisconsin, spilling ~126,000 US gallons (480 m3) of crude. Some of the oil filled a hole more than 20 feet (6.1 m) deep and was reported to have contaminated the local water table.[13]
In April 2007, roughly 6,227 barrels (990.0 m3) of crude oil spilled into a field downstream of an Enbridge pumping station near Glenavon, Saskatchewan. Long-term site remediation is being attempted to bring the site to “as close as possible to its original condition”.[11]
In 2009, Enbridge Energy Partners, a US affiliate of Enbridge Inc., agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit brought against the company by the state of Wisconsin for 545 environmental violations.[14][15] The violations were incurred while building portions of the company’s Southern Access pipeline, a ~$2.1 billion project to transport crude from the oil sands region in Alberta to Chicago. In a news release from Wisconsin’s Department of Justice, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said “…the incidents of violation were numerous and widespread, and resulted in impacts to the streams and wetlands throughout the various watersheds.”
In January 2009 an Enbridge pipeline leaked about 4,000 barrels (640 m3) of oil southeast of Fort McMurray at the company’s Cheecham Terminal tank farm. It was reported in the Edmonton Journal3), sprayed into the air and coated nearby snow and trees.[16] that most of the spilled oil was contained within berms, but that about 1% of the oil, about 40 barrels (6.4 m
April 2010 an Enbridge pipeline ruptured spilling more than 1500 litres of oil in Virden, Manitoba, which leaked into the Boghill Creek which eventually connects to the Assiniboine River.[17]
July 2010, a leaking pipeline spilled an estimated 843,444 US gallons (3,192.78 m3) of crude oil into Talmadge Creek leading to the Kalamazoo River in southwest Michigan on Monday, July 26.[18][19]
On September 9, 2010, a rupture on Enbridge’s Line 6A pipeline near Romeoville, Illinois released an estimate 6,100 barrels (970 m3) of oil into the surrounding area.[

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Well guess what, a shocking revelation has come to light,a couple of weeks ago a report from the University of Alberta was released, a report that made a very honest representation of the financial numbers, the University of Alberta report stated,…That the Alberta oil producers would be the big winner with an Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, to the tune of $billions per pear, the report also stated that the Province of British Columbia would receive the least benefit ($131 million dollars in royalties over the life of the project)…Ontario would receive roughly $400 million dollars while Alberta would receive almost all the money, $10`s of billions per year….British Columbia would take ALL of the risk, the pipeline would have to cross 1200 rivers and streams in BC land, plus the inevitable oil tanker wreck on the BC Hurricane force wind-filled northern coast, BC would take all that risk for for $14 million dollars per year, the BP gulf of Mexico spill has cost over $40 billion to partially clean up..

Now perhaps you might be wondering what the “latest shocking revelation” is…..Here`s the deal, Alberta Tar Sand whores want the Northern Enbridge pipeline for one main reason…..That reason is….To get a higher price for their oil!!….That higher price is the Brent Crude price, Brent Crude averages 10% to 15% more the WTI North American price…..Here are the quotes from different sources.
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EDMONTON — Oil producers could lose $72 billion over a nine-year-period if a pipeline to carry Alberta bitumen to the West Coast isn’t built, a new report for the Alberta government says as community hearings for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project are about to begin this month in British Columbia.

In a 44-page report submitted before Christmas to the federal government panel reviewing the pipeline project, consultants for Alberta Energy peg potential losses for oil producers in the project at $8 billion every year between 2017 and 2025.

The forecast, drawn up by Houston-based consultant Harold York for the firm Wood Mackenzie, is largely based on the expectation that Alberta oil sells at a higher price on an international market than it does in North America.

“If we can get it offshore, there are a lot more markets available to us which are willing to pay a higher price,” Alberta Energy spokesman Tim Markle said.

Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Alta+producers+lose+billions+Northern+Gateway+pipeline+built/5937894/story.html#ixzz1iQt7IUnc

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Enbridge`s “Stanway added that the proposal has a strong economic case to make, starting with an estimated $2.4-billion-per-year increase in revenue to Canada’s oil industry through higher prices producers would be able to generate from selling into wider markets.

“The real driving force behind Northern Gateway is the strategic argument for Canada having access to world markets for its most valuable export product,” Stanway said.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Public+hearings+Enbridge+Northern+Gateway+pipeline+begin/5932933/story.html#ixzz1iQwZGhHh
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So there you have it, we have an Alberta University submitting a report that shows BC receiving a mere $131 million dollars over the life of the project, couple that with increased prices at the pump, we have seen this picture before, the HST, a yearly $2 billion dollar tax shift from corporations on to consumers back, a huge benefit to big corporations, $2 billion dollars out of BC consumers pockets directly into corporate profits, we were promised lower prices and jobs, but what we got was higher prices and thousands of lost jobs, the exact same scenario will happen with the Enbridge northern pipeline, as soon as they start selling Alberta crude on the international market they will be charging the brent crude price, our fuels prices will rise by 10% to 20% almost immediately…..Remember when oil surged to $150 dollars per barrel in 2009, our pump price was $1.50 plus per litre, no breaks for Canadians, we were subject to full pricing, pricing higher than what the Americans paid…

The Northern Enbridge pipeline will see BC drivers paying an additional $600 million dollars plus per year, Canadians as a whole will pay roughly $7 billion dollars more per year….

Think about it, which route would more and more Tar sand oil travel, south for a $100 dollars a barrel or west for $115 dollars a barrel?…Exactly, which oil company would settle for the lower price? Eventually all the Tar Sand bitumen will rise to the Brent crude price….How does $1.70 to $2.00 a litre sound?

Here, let me describe the sound…Kaching, Kaching!

So here`s the deal, the Enbridge Northern pipeline, Enbridge who have had 1000 pipeline spills in the last decade, including a savage spill of 844,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo river last year, Enbridge wants their pipeline to cross 1200 rivers and streams in BC on its way to Kitimat where giant Supertankers 4 times longer than a football field will have to travel the roughest, windiest coastline in the world, a coastline where hurricane force winds blow almost weekly!!!…Including this week!….

And for all of this risk, for tempting fate, waiting for the inevitable spill, for a cost of $700 million dollars per year to B.C. drivers, just what is our benefit?

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The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy issued an analysis Thursday concluding that with expanded pipeline access to U.S. and Asian markets, Canada’s gross domestic product would jump $132 billion in 2010 dollars between 2016 and 2030, generating $27 billion in federal, provincial and municipal taxes and 649,000 person-years of employment.

But the study also shows that the overwhelming economic benefit of pipeline expansion to B.C. goes to Alberta.

The opening of the Asian market would trigger $10.5 billion in gains and 52,000 person-years of employment in Canada, but almost $10 billion of that wealth and 44,000 person-years go to Alberta.

Ontario would get $286 million and 4,000 person-years, while B.C. would enjoy $131 million and 2,000 person-years.

The study also “suggests” that B.C. would gain an additional $85 million in GDP and another 1,000 person-years due to increased exports to California if pipelines are built to the West Coast.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/business/decision+pipeline+will+signal+world+Alberta+premier+says/5867912/story.html#ixzz1gsTYLF5a
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British Columbia would receive a mere $131 million …..SHOCKING, Enbridge, the ALBERTA Government, the Federal Government wants B.C. to risk everything, our last 89 Orca, our wild salmon, kelp forests, our pristine northern coastline for a staggering $131 million dollars, or if you like, $14.3 million dollars per year, not enough money over 16 years to pay for a quarter of a new BC Place roof!

Alberta Government, Enbridge and Stephen Harper want BC and Canadian drivers to pay $billions of dollars more each and every single year all in the name of funneling more largesse to Big oil Vampires, ..

Do the math people, $700 million per year in higher fuel prices over 15 years comes to…

$10.5 billion dollars in extra costs to BC drivers and…..A staggering $105 Billion dollars more in cost to Canadian drivers as a whole!

Brent crude,current price over $113 dollars per barrel

North American/Current Canadian price..$100 dollars per barrel.

A 10% plus difference in price, do the math people, BCers and Canadians are being led to the gas pump slaughterhouse.

Below are the stats Canada figures for fuel consumption by Province, as you will see, British Columbia drivers bought 5 billion litres of fuel in 2010….At an average cost of even $1 dollar per litre, B.C. drivers spent well over $5 billion dollars on fuel, raise the price of crude oil to the international brent crude price and even if Alberta oil rises by 10% …Even at 10% the cost to BC Drivers per year will be roughly $700 million dollars every single year….

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Sales of fuel used for road motor vehicles, by province and territory
(Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
thousand litres
Canada
Net sales of gasoline 38,653,955 39,635,182 39,148,560 39,708,461 40,558,727
Gross sales of gasoline 39,918,335 40,848,495 40,496,036 41,028,454 41,885,365
Net sales of diesel oil 16,611,819 17,133,467 16,555,321 16,188,394 16,701,960
Alta.
Net sales of gasoline 5,139,600 5,298,000 5,317,300 5,350,400 5,410,900
Gross sales of gasoline 5,368,100 5,536,200 5,608,400 5,569,300 5,618,300
Net sales of diesel oil 3,373,400 3,580,000 3,488,800 3,632,700 3,629,600
B.C.
Net sales of gasoline 4,524,469 4,554,406 4,467,255 4,536,112 4,760,666
Gross sales of gasoline 4,719,356 4,749,604 4,619,653 4,646,008 4,915,626
Net sales of diesel oil 1,721,635 1,796,611 1,714,031 1,647,876 1,838,578
Y.T.
Net sales of gasoline 61,536 60,741 62,797 67,053 70,133
Gross sales of gasoline 63,839 62,816 64,950 69,738 71,502
Net sales of diesel oil 43,137 43,789 46,827 50,197 54,828
N.W.T.
Net sales of gasoline 37,250 38,855 37,312 38,149 42,959
Gross sales of gasoline 46,724 47,898 46,939 47,289 49,706
Net sales of diesel oil 113,045 162,327 112,391 86,013 65,588
Nvt.
Net sales of gasoline 12,016 17,179 17,687 22,992 12,291
Gross sales of gasoline 12,016 17,179 17,687 22,991 12,291
Net sales of diesel oil 5,188 6,360 5,966 5,248 7,541
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So there you have it, The Straight Goods on the NOT-Going to Happen Northern Enbridge pipeline, Enbridge`s pipeline will give the B.C. Government $131 million dollars over 15 years, it will risk BC,s pristine coastline, risk rivers and streams, risk wild salmon, for this $131 million dollars all it will cost BC drivers is $10.5 billion dollars and cost Canadian drivers $105 Billion dollars over the life of the project..,,,,……………………………………………………………

The Oil spill that killed BC`s Coastline for milennia.

577, the unluckiest number, the Enbridge pipeline disaster

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577,The Unluckiest Number,Enbridge pipeline disaster, Ten years out.

The Enbridge pipeline disaster
The 10 year anniversary next month of the Bengal Lion Star tragedy and I had to come to ground zero to see for myself, perhaps it was a mistake to come here, from what I have seen i`m way too angry to cry and too sad for fury, in fact I almost have that peaceful easy feeling.

How I miss my dad`s analytical explanation and mom`s hope springs eternal talks, yet I fear that neither parent could explain away this tragedy, 10 years later, 10 years of black death extending it`s reach.

Looking around by boat off Banks island, one mile from ground zero the feeling is of the surreal, trees are still green but any ocean life or bird activity is eerily quiet, no salmon fry swimming , no squawking gulls just silence, for tens of miles in every direction the great kelp forests are gone, who gave us permission to gamble and lose what we didn`t own and what we could never replace, Fish lake was a horrid environmental mistake, imagine deliberately destroying a huge natural watershed for trinkets of gold, thousands of dead migrating birds, a poisonous lake devoid of life, how many species of frogs, insects still get near or in the lake only to perish or leave half dead, but as horrible as the deliberate execution of Fish lake was the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill off Banks island in Hecate Strait is beyond compare, how is it that my only terms of reference in attempting to describe this site is that of dead zones, in a way its very peaceful, no eternal battle for life here, those days are long gone.

Only if I could turn back the clock, why did it happen, the Bengal Lion Star should not have went out, a deep pacific low moving in, was the Captain pressured to leave, why why why, even with two large commercial tug boats assisting wasn`t going to stop the wreck, maybe if there were extra support tugs who knows but when lead tug boat Kitimat queen capsized in heavy seas nothing was going to stop the massive oil carrier from grounding on White jagged rocks that stormy (March 14, 2016) night, 30 – 40 ft high waves capped with fury pounded the Bengal Lion Star on unforgiving rocks, section after section burst like watermelons, spewing millions of gallons of tar sand oil, the 3rd largest oil spill in the world, maybe if the oil containment teams had gotten out here sooner but with storm force winds blowing for 2 days along with extreme high – low tides, my god, oil sprayed the shore line high on exposed rocks and layered thick into the lowest tidal zones, mountains of Alberta crude flowing in deep water, who could imagine the oil would have spread 50 miles in different directions over 2 days, coves, bays, narrow channels coated in black death, as far as I can look in any direction this paradise is dead, who knows what the bird count will ultimately be, millions of direct bird deaths with millions more that died in subsequent migrations, birds all along the coast found dead, birds with clear signs of contact with heavy oil, the engine in this migration route blasted with syncrude, indeed, the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill can`t be measured in millions of oiled birds or the 40 distinct salmon runs that were decimated and or all of BC`a wild salmon teetering on extinction, the sea lions, otters, coastal bears, eagles, ferrets, no salmon spawns led one extinction into another, we broke nature`s bond, too many dead for one`s heart to count, oil stained carcasses feed other animals that ultimately die and black oil`s death grip reaches on and on, only with time, generational time, perhaps millenia before this area recovers, can it recover, and for what, to spill another tanker of crude.

I don`t what is harder to take, the fragile existence of a few northern runs of salmon and southern Sockeye, it`s almost like the cycle of life has been thrown out, this large swath of nature, thousands of square miles destroyed forever, well at least for my lifetime, perhaps 6 or 7 generations before this area will become fertile again but with continued oil tanker traffic when will black death strike again, even if the shell fish recover, even if herring spawns again, the Orca will never be seen again, the birthing females were first to die then the small adolescent Orca perished, 2 adult males are all that is left of the species, maybe mankind should have figured out how to start a new Orca pod before destroying the only one we had, we can take life away in a moment for all time, why didn`t we learn from the Valdez disaster, there is no going back, First Nations have mourned, the northern and island tourism industry has been decimated, maybe I should have fought harder against the National review 15 years ago, 10 years out from the disaster and Hecate Strait still lay mortally wounded, you can still smell crude oil, I can only think of Charlton Heston`s Planet of the Apes movie when he sees New York`s Statue of Liberty and realizes that it was mankind himself that burned mother nature, this area is no longer worth fighting for, top scientists are mostly in agreement that outside of decades of time there is nothing on scale that can be done to remediate the damage.

It appears the only ones left fighting about the Bengal Lion Star are the litigants, where have we seen this picture before, the Valdez law suit still lingers unpaid(40 years later), the Liberian registered Bengal Lion Star oil tanker had but minimum insurance, $200 million dollars yet the insurance has been contested, Bengal Lion Star hadn`t paid premiums in 2 years, Honshu commercial carrier insurance company have claimed bankruptcy, between the Province and Ottawa more than $4.9 billion has been spent on clean-up and species mitigation, First Nations, affected business`s and local town`s folk have law suits filed worth more than $10 billion dollars, everyone sueing and litigating for compensation on something no one can return, Enbridge pipeline inc washes their hands of any responsibility, Shell, Exxon Mobile and the Chinese petroleum company are all pointing fingers at each other, owners of the Bengal Lion Star blame the escort tug company, tug company blames act of god and file for bankruptcy, how long will these trials go on and who will ultimately pay, what price, what price to return nature to the way it was, all this pain to secure dirty Alberta syncrude to China, oil use falls for the last 7 years, a dying product needing desperate tyrants, we sold out nature on British Columbian`s wild west coast for a handful of pesos, how can ancient dregs of plants take so much away from present and future life cycles, I can`t shed tears anymore, my life, my personal battles, millions of wasted words warning of potential harm or should I say risk management, I `m too old to repeat the warnings and too tired to muster passion, the battle for Haida Gwaii is over.

Despite the First Nation`s blockade attempting to stop the very first oil tanker, 8 First Nations elders gave their life that day, not enough pressure to stop the Vessel, Oil tanker Shell diamond and it`s Canadian naval escort, dugout canoe versus high-speed frigate, symbolic but futile, the time to stop Enbridge was before it started, certainly native voices on opening day weren`t going to stop it, you can`t stop $4billion dollars spent, never the less January 13/2014 that was first super tanker to leave Kitimat, thousands of small protest vessels, even Greenpeace and Suzuki foundation concentrated efforts couldn`t stop the Federal Conservatives and the Campbell Liberal administration from rubber stamping this project from the git-go, proceeding at full speed, no matter how much evidence anti pipeline opponents, scientists, biologist, enviro`s put forward they were all but ignored, why didn`t the NDP government stop the completion of Enbridge after they were elected in 2013, was the fix in, too much money invested to stop, too big to fail, needed economic growth, jobs jobs jobs, yes I heard everyone of those excuses justifying the completion of Enbridge, what jobs, imported foreign workers building the pipeline and 12 permanent after construction jobs, was it worth it.

Madness, I knew something really big would happen, not the 5000 barrels that spilt into the Skeena river, not the 50,000 barrels dumped at the port of Kitimat but something epic, mathematician’s also knew it was coming, not if a big spill would happen but when a spill would happen, I can still hear Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark talk about risk management, the best experts in the world say we can manage the risk, how come no one asked how do we manage armageddon, how do we clean up, how do we create more Orca, how do you bring back thousands of square miles from the dead, I wonder what Gordon Campbell would say, ex premier Adrian Dix stated regrets that the NDP didn`t do more to stop Enbridge, Gordon Campbell is long since dead, yes Gordon Muir Campbell I pass blame on to you and your complicit Cabinet, your legacy, Enbridge, bankrupt utilities, a dismal health care system, a dead central coast and slow dying life cycle, well, no one is listening to me, not the Governing federal Conservatives, not Premier Gordon Coons of the newly elected Refederation party, no, no one wants to listen to the left wing, after the BC Liberal led economic collapse, the seeds of P3s, IPPs and insider deals dominated, it didn`t matter who was Government so many bad deals were signed, how many can the court overturn, the extent of the economic damage that came to fruition, what happened, like the Spanish flu in 1919 that killed millions, no one talks about the harm Gordon Campbell`s corporate Government inflicted upon us, the extent of one way contracts that ate up every Provincial dollar and more, I can`t help but think back to our 2010 Olympics, the pride, the I am Canadian attitude, Super Natural British Columbia but just a few short years after the closing ceremonies we have poisoned interior lakes, lost countless wild salmon runs to fish farms and now the third largest oil spill in the world, a death blow to our BC Coast, a massive spill in our migration engine.

Just picture heaven covered in oil, and what hurts even more, the people of BC don`t seem to care anymore, in the latest public opinion poll by Ipsos Reid job creation and big industry are more important than the environment, 67% for jobs and 16% say protect the environment, it`s times like this when I stare across at Mc Caully island or look into Norway inlet, smell the oil, I see the end of the world being played out, there is no shoulder of comfort to lean on, no soothing hugs that can squelch my silent anger, 576 successful departures from Kitimat, 576 loaded oil tankers that safely managed the inside passage, risk management, reward versus risk, despite 5 years of cruise ships not plying the inside passage, despite the loss to tourism, despite a sterile ocean desert, despite the tiniest of recoveries on the outer edges of the spill zone, despite of everything tanker traffic is predicted to triple over the next 3 years, an insatiable Asian appetite for oil and now that paradise is lost there is nothing left to fight for and no reason to stop, perhaps other edens can be spared.

Number 577, no tears of anger, no screams of silence, nothing but “That peaceful easy feeling.”