Cullen Attacks Enbridge Efforts To Change Rules Mid-Hearing
Prince George, BC – Just days before he’s scheduled to present his oral evidence to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel, the NDP MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley is outraged by Enbridge’s efforts to change the hearing rules mid-stream.
The JRP hearings began on January 10th, with panel members listening to oral evidence from registered intervenors on the proposed 1,172-kilometre twin pipeline project project from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat. The second phase of hearings – expected to begin in late March and run until July – will hear oral statements from registered participants living in or near the proposed project area.
MP Nathan Cullen is scheduled to present evidence this Friday at a hearing in Prince Rupert, as is North Coast MLA, Gary Coons. Cullen is decrying a letter sent to the Joint Review Panel by Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership Vice-President, Ken MacDonald, asking non-Aboriginal participants have their presentation time limited to 10-minutes.
"This panel was set up so that those most affected can be properly consulted and properly heard," says Cullen. "Now just over a month into the hearings, Enbridge is putting the muzzle on democratically elected officials who represent those people."
The New Democrat MP says Enbridge and the Conservatives don’t want to hear the truth. "The truth is that First Nations don’t want this pipeline, BC residents don’t want to see supertankers in coastal waters threatening the coastal economy with a potential spill. And Canadians don’t want us to ship value-added jobs to China, along with raw goods."
The MP for the riding the pipeline is proposed to run through points out that Terrace City Council voted against the Northern Gateway Project just last night.
The JRP is expected to issue a reply to MacDonald’s letter today.
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The city of Terrace are coming out AGAINST Enbridge`s firty tar pipeline..
http://www.terracedaily.ca/show9365a0x300y1z/TERRACE_BECOMES_ECONOMIC_LEADER_BY_OPPOSING_ENBRIDGE
Harper will be removed from power before he gets his dirty tar pipeline through British Columbia..
http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2012/01/enbridge-will-kill-british-columbia.html
Nice to see the word “enbridge” in a headline still brings out the spam
Fantasy spam to boot. Does anyone really believe Harper is going to be ‘removed from power’ any time soon? Good luck with that.
O.k., no use to cast any pearls.
build the pipe line.you guys that are against it,are you riding horses to get around?
Well it would be nice if the oil was for our use but it’s all going to China. Guess we will be riding horses.
“Guess we will be riding horses.”
No. We have enough oil/gasoline of our own, even if half of it is imported. We can fill our tanks with as much fuel as we want – hopefully for a long time to come yet!
Annual predicted new vehicle sales in China by the end of this decade: 35 million per year!
Horses are rarely ridden in China, but they can be found on some restaurant menus!
Oil to China is a good thing.
Prosperity = Specialization + Trade
IF the BC vote in the federal elections were in a position to decide the federal election then you can bet harper would be gone. Unfortunately anything west of ontario doesn’t have much say in the system we have.
Absolutely hilarious this notion that if you use internal combustion engines in any manner whatsoever, you JUST CANNOT BE AGAINST THE PIPELINE. Sorry for the use of caps, but these ideas just rub me the wrong way. That folks would support the pipeline just because they drive a car strikes me as the heights of stupidity. Would it not be better if we actually used our own oil to make stuuf from so we can sell it to, oh, I don’t know . . . CANADIANS?
Do you seriously think the Chinese will pay for clean up if there’s a spill? Do you think Enbridge will? Get a grip!
krusty, you seem so sure that the pipe line will burst or the tankers will sink.maybe you should get a grip to.
krusty, you seem so sure that the pipe line will burst or the tankers will sink.maybe you should get a grip to.
Yeah Krusty! Like has Enbridge ever had an oil leak!? Hah!
I don’t think they have had one yet this week.
But then, the weeks not over.
I think Nathen Cullen will be our next Prime Minister… and I think that would be good for Canada. I also think because of Gateway BC will have an ndp government in 2013 and at that point the Gateway pipeline will be a dead horse.
I use to vote conservative at one point, and even believed Harper would be good for Canada as their leader… I now believe he is a globalist fool that is going all out to make Canada a fascist strong hold while he has the power to do so… and will sell out Canadian interest anytime it crosses with his globalist agenda. I also think Harper is the most hypocritical politician this country has ever seen and he will say anything to get elected… even if he believes and will implement the complete opposite of what he says during an election… much like the BC liberals.
Classic line from a life long ndp’r: “I used to vote conservative” bs to you eagle. I get quite a kick out of reading the fiction stories from anti-pipe individuals on here, most of whom’s incomes are from the public purse, not tax paying corporations.
A good example was the banner ad on 250’s home page yesterday: Some native group protesting ‘pipe using my money and yours to pay for it.
And by the way all you ‘huggers, Kinder Morgan and the governments tax coffers can celabrate 59 years of running Alberta crude through Jasper Park without a leak.
All you have to do is look at enbridges track record. Who cares about kindermorgans record.
krusty: “Do you seriously think the Chinese will pay for clean up if there’s a spill? Do you think Enbridge will?”
Yes. Enbridge would be on the hook. They paid about $700 Million for mitigation of the Kalamazoo River spill.
And they buried acres of oil soaked ground without cleaning it up, letting it leech into water tables. Is this what you call cleaning up thier mess? Is this how you would accept a cleanup in BC? Do you even live in BC johnnybelt?
Yep. I live here. And I realize that the world runs on oil until they figure something else out. What’s your alternative?
Johnny Enbridge recently reduced their insurance policy for the Gateway project from $1.5 billion to half of that because they couldn’t make the project work at $1.5 billion in insurance… Exxon Valdez was $20 billion and counting and they still haven’t cleaned that one up 25 years+ later and that was sweat crude and not tar sands.
Soling99 you are wrong about me working for government and not private business. I ran a successful start up in my youth that is still in business today bringing the latest in technology to the interior, and currently work for a company that is probably the most essential private infrastructure in Northern BC with thousands of jobs that rely on it every single day. I have never collected a single government check in my life. Heck I don’t even get the basic child credit from revenue Canada that others get for their kids, because my wife doesn’t have her citizenship, even though I pay the maximum rate in taxes.
People like you like to make fallacious hypotheticals to make your point rather than debate the real issue because you don’t have a leg to stand on when debating real issues.
“Yep. I live here. And I realize that the world runs on oil until they figure something else out. What’s your alternative?” .. I am sure people will continue to drive and the world will continue to revolve without the enbridge pipeline.
China will be adding 27,000 cars a day to their roads over the next ten years… they might not be able to drive if they can’t find the oil. If we are tied to their market with world market prices, which is what Gateway is all about, then you bet we might not be able to drive either.
If Gateway sets the price for oil in North America and we are competing in price for the last drop of a finite resource, then few people that are not millionaires will be able to drive at all (China has over a million millionaires)… if you live in the north and require gas to get around forget about it… but its a huge bonanza for the oil companies for sure, and all those that have the income elasticity to keep up with the inflation it creates.
It is projected that in ten years China will use as much oil as the rest of the world combined (100 million barrels per day of which Gateway will be less then 1% of that total)… if we don’t have a way to protect our market from this kind of price inflation our whole economy will be doomed… we will not have an energy advantage and they will have the labor, and environmental deregulation advantage… that is unless we are willing to pay peanuts for our workers and ignore the environment completely to compete… and what will that do to your middle class lifestyle (better get out the candles and horse drawn buggy)… one doesn’t need a degree to figure that one out.
Some people are shortsighted and IMO outright treasonous in their advocacy for Gateway.
Excellent points on all fronts Eagleone…I mentioned this before in a previous Northern Gateway article on here…That is, any of the FNs that oppose this pipeline will make it certain that it does not get built, because it will be tied up in court for years to come. The reason being is that it will infringe on those FN’s rights and title to their traditional territory. For example, the Haisla Nation’s Chief, Ellis Ross, has stated that they have not being consulted on this proposal. No consultation with them or others will mean certain court action, plain and simple. So, to those that think otherwise because we all drive trucks etc…it won’t happen and Stephen Harper et al know it…Harper, pfft, what a ignorant hypocrite with his church going ways…he ain’t no christian, by any stretch…
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