Kitimat Calls on JRP To Reconsider
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 @ 4:00 AM
Kitimat, B.C.- While the community of Kitimat is proposed to be ground zero for the Northern Gateway Pipeline project, the community is not on the list of communities that will be visited as part of the final hearings by the Joint Review Panel.
The Mayor and Council for Kitimat have written a letter to the National Energy Board asking that this decision be reconsidered.
Under the Northern Gateway proposal, Kitimat will be the terminal where bitumen will be loaded on to the Asian bound tankers, and condensate is off loaded to the pipeline to be pumped back to Alberta. So not only will the community be facing spill risk on land , but tanker spill risk as well.
The Joint Review Panel was in Smithers yesterday for its latest community hearing, and will be in Port Hardy on August 7th, Comox August 8th, then returns to B.C. for hearings in Vancouver , Victoria and Kelowna early in the new year.
Just yesterday, First Nations, environmental groups as well as current and former politicians joined forces to hold a news conference to make it clear that in B.C., no amount of money will make the proposed twin pipeline attractive enough to make opponents in this province say yes to the project.
Meantime, the planned hearing in Calgary had so few people register to make oral submissions that the hearing scheduled to take place in that city tomorrow, has been cancelled. This is the second time a hearing set for Alberta has been cancelled because of lack of interest. Earlier this month the hearing that was to take place in Edmonton was cancelled.
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The Joint Review Panel was in Smithers yesterday for its latest community hearing, and will be in Port Hardy on August 7th, Comox August 8th, then returns to B.C. for hearings in Vancouver , Victoria and Kelowna early in the new year
Writer, did Vancouver Island separate from the rest of B.C. overnight???
Please proof read!
C5: If you read it and understand that the panel is an Ottawa appointed and based body, you will see that the panel will be in Port Hardy and Comox in August, then will take a break, and will be back in BC in the new year.
not difficult.
Folks in Kitimat could always drive to Smithers and participate. They could use the trip to contemplate the importance of oil and their Chinese made gadgets (phone, computer, gps) they would never do without. Perhaps after this thoughtful consideration, submitting another JRP sob-story would seem meaningless…
We all must do what we feel is best, some people are just willing to stoop lower than others. If the people protesting this pipeline got jobs in The Patch, they wouldn’t need to rely on funding from US ecoterrorist cults and the world would be a better place.
Kitimat has already bent over for this, why do they need a hearing?
Kitimat mayor and council and some business people may have bent over, but these people do not reflect (as in most communities, Prince George included) the wishes of the all people who live there.
I suspect that avoiding Kitimat is done for more than one reason.
make that: the wishes of all the people who live there.
Visit Kitimat Frontpage and Terrace Frontpage to get an understanding of how that area feels about the whole issue. Letters to the editors are very revealing!
There are still the odd person out there that believe that there is something good to be said about the pipeline it’s sad but true that person can’t see past one or two paychecks as apposed to having a healthy environment for the future.
http://www.kitimatdaily.ca/cgi-bin/show_home.cgi
to feel the pulse of the Kitimat community.
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