What you doing for employment after the next federal election Zimmer?

Meanwhile the conservative government closed the marine spill response crew in the Lower Mainland and moved its operations to Quebec.

Then we got Enbridge that had no spill response plan for the Joint Review Panel… And federal funding pulled for studies to see how bitumen will act in a spill scenario. Complete ignorance of the most important aspects of serious safety.

What about the energy inflation costs to all Canadians and the rest of the economy? What about state owned enterprise (Chinese) with control of the resources and conservative inspired FIPA investment deals that allow these Chinese state owned enterprises to sue provincial regulators in Chinese courts for any environmental or safety regulations that have costs?

What about globalists that set up these throw away corporations with subsidiary limited liability and negligible insurance for the scope of a potential spill? This Northern Gateway will be a Lac Magantic all over again.

Bob you can hide behind the Joint Review Panel conditions, but the facts are that you support this flawed project that is harmful to BC productivity costs, a grave danger to the environment, and is against legal rights of First Nations along the route.

We get the same old babble from those opposed to the pipeline.

Fact of the matter is, other than some keyboard complaining on sites such as this, and the odd letter to the Editor in other newspapers, there is very little actual **action** from those opposed.

The rally last night in front of Harris’s office is a case in point. Perhaps 100 people protesting, and a good number of them First Nations. Its the First Nations that have the most clout on this issue, and who will ensure over the long haul that Enbridge, and the Government tows the line.

For those others who pretend to be opposed, and who supposedly will try and get a petition to stop the project, I say to you, that you had better get off your collective ass’s and start pounding the pavement, because you have a tough task ahead of you,.

Personally when it comes to feet on the ground, I don’t think that this issue has the legs to make the long trek.

Sorry Bob but I’m disappointed in the whole statement by the Conservative Party.
Outside of the 300 scientists who signed a letter decrying this project, I am also very disappointed in the whole FIPA deal.
What does that do, except make us and our land, slaves to an foreign entity at their whim and will?
I happen to value freedom more than that.

Bob, can you please tell Stephen Harper to keep Shari green out of federal politics?
Thanks bob.
P.s. I want this pipeline built ASAP.
Thanks.

Bob, what is the estimated cost of cleanup of a major oil tanker spill? I’ve heard it would be north of $10B. If this is the case, why did you party just make changes to company oil spill liability, capping it at $400M. Who’s going to pay the other $9.6B cleanup when it happens?

PS, why are you blocking constituents on twitter? Dont like answering questions?

“Our Government has a clear role as a regulator that ensures projects are built and operate safely. It is the private sector proponents who must demonstrate that their projects meet Canada’s world class safety standards.”

Let’s see…..Kalamazoo pipe that burst was in dire need of maintenance and Enbridge knew about it for 5 years. When the alarm bells went off the operators either ignored or didn’t believe their instruments. Bob, please tell us how you can safety protect us from incompetance?

@NoWay: If you think nothing changed at Enbridge after Kalamazoo, you’re living in a dream world. It is simply not in the best interests of any company to have to deal with a spill, both from a financial standpoint and a public relations standpoint.

You spewed the same nonsense about the Liberals in the last Provincial election Duhragon. How did that turn out for you?

No one was fired for Kalamazoo JB and Enbridge incompetance carries on to this day. How many other pipes of Enbridges need maintenance that they are ignoring?

“For those others who pretend to be opposed, and who supposedly will try and get a petition to stop the project, I say to you, that you had better get off your collective ass’s and start pounding the pavement, because you have a tough task ahead of you,.”

The ball is rolling Palopu and it is a big ball! Don’t forget to donate!

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Palopu, according to the Citizen, “several hundred” people attended the rally yesterday, not “perhaps a hundred”.
As for JB’s assertion, “It is simply not in the best interests of any company to have to deal with a spill, both from a financial standpoint and a public relations standpoint.”, it does not seem to have harmed either Exxon or Enbridge. You’d think that any government with a grain of sense would look at a company that had 5 years to fix a known problem that eventually led to a major spill and come to the conclusion that they should not give permission to the same company to build a pipeline in a far more challenging geographical region, wouldn’t you?
Although it is really tempting to conclude that the Harper government is corrupt, it might be just as likely that they are simply incompetent.

Palopu: “As for JB’s assertion, “It is simply not in the best interests of any company to have to deal with a spill, both from a financial standpoint and a public relations standpoint.”, it does not seem to have harmed either Exxon or Enbridge.”

You have to look at the big picture.

If you don’t think a billion dollar+ cleanup doesn’t hurt a company, then I don’t know what else to tell you.

Exxon hasn’t been the same either.

Not only do these companies take a hit to their bottom lines, their names get dragged through the media and it’s harder (and more costly) for everyone to do business.

Oops, I attributed the above quote to Palopu. Should have been Krusty.

Who cares if a billion dollar clean up hurts a company?? Especially the ones behind the spills?

I would be more worried about our tourism industry, our fishing industry, our wildlife viewing industry, our sports fishing industry, our clean drinking water etc etc etc.

This proposed pipeline will never be built.

Jim: “This proposed pipeline will never be built.”

You can’t possibly know that for a fact, although it’s a good exercise in wishful thinking.

JB, Exxon’s 2013 4th quarter profits were 8.35 billion, while Enbridge (over 7 billion in assets) has received the green light from our federal government despite the Kalamazoo spill (cited as the largest inland oil clean-up in US history) and they continue to make multimillion dollar profits year after year. Please tell me how oil spills have hurt these companies.

This one time I suggested that Mr. Zimmer look at the facts and science surrounding marijuana legalization, to which he replied “I’ve already made my decision”.

So, Bob, what is it: do we get to make decisions on only facts, or on gut feelings when convenient?

Or are we just toeing the party line as usual?

@NoWay: If you think nothing changed at Enbridge after Kalamazoo, you’re living in a dream world.

Oh really JB! Maybe it’s you that is living in a dream world?

http://m.thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/04/05/Enbridge-Pumping-Stations/

117 violations and counting. Boy they sure did change.

BryceLokken…..Zimmer is a mouthpiece for Harper, nothing more. Should see the latest little piece of smear work in the form of the anti marijuana legalization pamphlets handed out the other day just before the by-elections. I thought the cons had grown up, but no way, they still think it is safer having marijuana dispensed by guys with knifes guns and a ready supply of really heavy shite available as well, instead of a regulated controlled system. They also feel the best way to react when approached with opposition of any kind that doesn’t fit their ideological bill is to smear their opponent with attacks and childishness.

Zimmer’s government is so hyprocritical, weren’t they the ones slamming the NDP for mail outs, got one from BOB the other day, “hey you patriotic Canadian, how do do you like your CONSERVATIVE government” wave the flag rah rah….paid for by taxpayers!!!!

Mr. Zimmer will never get my vote. I have wanted to speak to him for a considerable time to get clarification on our government’s position on a matter. I can’t even get a response from his PG office manager. Her last response to my email request was nothing short of rude.

How is this representing the riding? Frankly, it isn’t.

Enbridge may have still made money after the Kalamzoo spill, but without it, they would have made much more. No person or corporation would purposly take on massive costs when they can be avoided. Incidents may still happen but there is zero upside to anybody when they do. It’s in the best interest of all companies to mitigate this risk to the highset degree. If companies are labeled as greedy, why would they want to cut into profits to clean up accidents?

Typical political response. Don’t think this will buy you any votes Bob. With all the government scandals of late and waste of taxpayer dollars it is pretty hard to believe the old “were here from the government and here to help you”. I wonder who paid all the so called experts to say that this whole idea was a good one, oh ya that was us. Nice try though.

“very little actual **action** from those opposed” .. what do you call the 10 pending court cases by first nations along the corridor?

I call the “10 pending court cases” a windfall for the lawyers. And nothing else.