Northern Gateway JRP Back to Work Today
Monday, June 24, 2013 @ 3:48 AM
Terrace, B.C. – The Joint Review Panel will resume the final hearings on the Northern Gateway project this morning at 9, and will hear Northern Gateway respond to the arguments put forth over the past week.
To the panel’s surprise, the oral arguments were completed last Thursday afternoon, a situation Panel Chair Sheila Legatt said no one would have expected. With two weeks booked for the hearing, Northern Gateway asked if it could forgo starting its response on Friday, and instead have the additional time to develop a response to the pipeline technical requirements as the change could mean significant cost increases.
While the Panel had no problem with allowing the extra time, some of the interveners suggested that move was not fair, that they have had to develop their responses in short order and were expected to be prepared to address the panel when their time came up on the schedule.
In the end, the Panel upheld its original decision, so everyone got Friday off, and the hearing resumes this morning.
The major of interveners have expressed opposition to the proposed twin pipeline outlining a variety of reasons. They have disputed the accuracy of what Northern Gateway is saying about its proposal, aversion to the “permit now and we will make changes later” approach and the lack of consultation and accommodation with First Nations. Those who support the project have pointed to the positive economic benefits for the region and the entire country, saying the pipeline is necessary because the major extraction companies need new markets for their product.
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With all the flood news, not much reporting on this weekends Enbridge leak near Anzac and Pennwest leak near Little Buffalo; or last weeks Turner Valley sour gas leak.
[http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/synthetic-oil-leak-shuts-down-enbridge-pipeline-in-northern-alberta-1.1338011]
[http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/3487169]
[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/20/calgary-turner-valley-sour-gas-rupture-egy.html]
That’s nothing Mikey, try two oil spills a day for the last 37 years in Alberta!
http://globalnews.ca/news/571494/introduction-37-years-of-oil-spills-in-alberta/
Beautiful British Columbia welcomes Alberta’s Oil Industry! (sarcasm)
I got it lets ban evil oil altogether then you guys could use smoke signals.
There is seamutt defending the same companies who jacked up the price of their fuel last month, just before the long weekend.
Hey… the Canada Day long weekend is just around the corner, time for another price hike? Poor Big Oil they need a champion like seamutt as they dig deeper into our pockets at their pumps!
What’s smoke signals got to do with anything? What we need to worry about is this is a 2006 line. These 2 shutdown Enbridge lines produce nearly a million barrels per day; huge $. I’m working on another Enbridge job and they actually do some awesome reclamation/restoration job.
What concerns me is this area is child’s play compared to BC. I can’t wait to get back to BC and build one. But build it properly. Are we taking every precaution? Of course not. We can better protect pipes. Install more valve stn’s. But it costs $. Is it easy to find good experienced workers who want to work long shifts away from home? Heck no. Do we get rushed to do an incredible amount of work in extremely short work windows? Definitely. Theres always shortcuts. Unless we find solutions this is coming to a salmon stream near you.
He he. Hey do you folks know how gas prices could be dropped 7 cents right now?
Bitching about gas prices, then bitching about pipelines, you gotta make up your minds.
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