Province Presses Enbridge Plan on Landslide Dangers
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 @ 6:15 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The Province of B.C.’s legal team pressed Enbridge’s geo-hazard mapping team on the first day of the Northern Gateway hearings in Prince George.
At issue is the concern over the possibility of land slides in the area. The Province’s lawyer posed questions about the risks posed by glacial clay, and noted PNG gas had experienced 14 line breaks on its natural gas line to Prince Rupert over the past 10 years because of landslides.
Drum Cavers, the principle engineer from AMEC Environmental and Infrastructure said not all glacial clays should be considered as possibly posing a risk of slide, and as for the PNG gas breaks, he dismissed them as having taken place in a different area. He did say Enbridge plans to bury the pipeline in areas along the pipeline route where there is a risk of landslide.
Cavers was also clear in repeating that further details have to be studied and that will be done, once the project is approved and enters the detailed design stage.
The hearings resume tomorrow morning at the Columbus Community Centre at 9. The Province of British Columbia will continue with its cross examination.
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” …. further details have to be studied and that will be done, once the project is approved ……….”
That sounds like the ideal time to study further details …….. :-(
You know ….. reminds me of government … LOL…. and we all thought that private industry is sooooo much smarter and better …….
I will bet dollars too donuts,that this gets studied and approved faster then Cannabis getting decrimed….
Did ya note this, “and as for the PNG gas breaks, he dismissed them as having taken place in a different area.”
Pipeline is not going to Prince Rupert. Hope the taxpayer is not paying much for that lawyer.
If China wants our oil they will have to buy refined oil we don’t spoil our environment so a foreign country can refine it and sell it back to us for a greater profit. If Harper loves the Chinese so much he can live over there. I hope he cares mored about the Chinese enviroment.
For the life of me I cannot fathom a pipeline going through The Lower Kitimat Valley!
I can’t get what Mr. Kiever’s kept saying over and over….
We are not at final design yet and we have plenty of tools in our tool box to solve those problems when we get to them.
When we get to them……????
2 metre’s deep that’s it…??? Conservative side…???
I am very worried and I believe that people had better wake up to the enormity of this in the name of OIL. There has to be another way.;[
So what exactly happens when a pipeline breaks where it is buried? How much longer would it take them to find or even realise that there is a leak? And what if its under twenty or thirty feet of snow? Will anybody know until summer when the snow has melted? If they’re going to rely on residents notifying them, good luck. No phones there.
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