Listen up, northerners. Are we ready to accept a spill of three million litres of oil into our rivers?
If not, we have to give a thumbs-down to Enbridge on their "Northern Gateway" line. The short term gains for us are not worth the integrity of our waters.

Unless I am mistaken we are not going to be afforded the opportunity to give the project a thumbs-down, or up?????

we better have a say as to what flows through our backyard. if not it could alot of people very angry Because we seem to have no say in anything any more including what our elected officials do with our Money,our water and our land.
I have always loved my home BC but it seems more if it is being ruined to make some rich guy more rich

When we find out just how much of our rivers and land has been sold to the highest bidder by the most corrupt government BC has ever known we will all throw up. Welcome the world run by corporations because that is the reality. We are in big trouble and most people are oblivious to it. Tra la la! Wake up sheeple!

It is not a matter of "could spill" but "when it spills"!

I wish people would make up their minds...

"boo hoo, we need to save the environemnt"

"where are all the jobs??"

"My taxes are too high"

"Gordon Campbell is the devil/savior"

Heres a news flash, we are a resource area.

Guess what we need to use?

Maybe we should get on board, work with the companies that actually wanna throw some money into our area, and maybe, just maybe we can prosper.

safer then trucking or railing the oil.

A pipeline through the Rocky Mountains does not seem like a good idea.

There seems to be a lot more avalanches and landslides these days. The chances of one taking out the pipeline and creating this type of situation seem to be pretty high.

Its not a question of if a pipeline will be built, its a question of where and by whom. The oil WILL move west, there is no doubt about it. Why? Because EVERY competing pipeline company has a rival proposal waiting should this one fail. Some of the other plans call for the pipe to go to Van, but getting this pipeline out your backyard does nothing to reduce the environmental risks. This sort of "pass-the-buck environmentalism" leads to all sorts of problems - such as if there is too much environmental scrutiny in one area, a project simply gets moved to another less stringent area. This INCREASES not decreases the risk of a disaster. Did you ever stop to think that maybe the Enbridge pipeline that ruptured was built where it was because they could be lax on safety?

We all use oil, and this oil move through BC. Therfore the responsible thing to do is let Enbridge know we are watching and get them to adhere to a high standard of operations. But outright refusal of this project is a road to ruin. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water, simply dumping this pipeline on someone else solves nothing.

Gawd cry me a friggen river will ya.

Oil spills through pipelines are not a common thing and the frequency of it happening is minimal at best we already ship oil in several pipelines through the Rockies and through many "Ecologically sensitive areas" in and around BC and have had only 2 major spills in these areas in the past 40 yrs but how many of you know that and how much noise was made then.

The only reason many of you so called environmental types are speaking up is because of the gulf spill and the recent spill in Michigan. If you don't want oil to be shipped then become a true envirmentalist because oil is required to run or make damn near everything we use. I want the pipeline because it means jobs and jobs mean money is being spent money being spent means economic health and that means more people are working. You deffinitely cannot say that about being eco-friendly show me one eco-friendly industry in BC that creates jobs.

I agree with buzzbomb

of course a spill could happen in northern b.c.
i think i'm right in saying enbridge alone sends some 2 million barrels a day through its piping system in canada.
i agree with you Dearth.
are all these doom and gloomers riding horses are what.

The only reason many of you so called environmental types are speaking up is because of the gulf spill and the recent spill in Michigan.

The only reason some of us are speaking up is because its time that we controlled what happens in our country and our neighborhood. We have a foreign corporation taking a product that is environmentally unfriendly from an operation that is probably the worlds biggest polluter running a pipe line through our back yard for the profit of a foreign corporation, exporting it for profit for others to keep on polluting our environment.

Yes it will provide a few short term jobs and then we are back to where we are now struggling to survive to the next boom waiting for a forgiven corporation to again provide jobs. Why is this project not being done by a Canadian corporation where the profits would stay in Canada to build secondary industry that would provide permanent jobs for Canadians.

Yes we have been living off our natural resources but what happens when they are no longer available and the will run out. What will then happen to you grandchildren or do you care.
Cheers

Excellent post Retired!

Couldn't have said it better. Why should we hand it over to foreign corporations for a few short term jobs? Some people would undoubtedly sell our whole country for a few pay cheques that don't amount to squat.

Good one Retired!

In today’s Citizen (Page 5) there is a Public Notice from the Joint Review Panel for the Gateway project requesting comments from the public.
Comments are being sought on:
1. a draft list of issues
2. additional information which Northern Gateway should be required to file;and
3. location(s) for the oral hearing.
The "Draft list of issues" can be found here http://gatewaypanel.review-examen.gc.ca/clf-nsi/dcmnt/lstsss-eng.pdf
I'm not sure why they are asking for comment regarding the locations of the oral hearings as there are only three; Whitecourt Alberta, Kitimat, and PG. The PG hearing is September 8th but if anyone wishes to speak at the hearing they have to register by August 18th. Jum13135; this is likely the closest opportunity that citizens of BC will get to providing a ‘thumbs up or down’ to the project.
On a story published yesterday (Enbridge pipeline leak no surprise to Carrier Sekani) I posted a link and some information from a report that was released in May regarding Enbridge that I found very interesting. http://www.tarsandswatch.org/files/EnbridgeProfile.pdf We all use oil and this will not change for the foreseeable future. Yes, the short term benefits to northern BC during construction would be nice. However, with Enbridge’s record of 610 spills between 1999 & 2008 (21 million liters of oil) from ruptures, leaks, and spills, I have some real concerns regarding the long term implications of this pipeline. If a spill such as the one that has just occurred took place here and those 3.8 million liters of oil was flowing down the Nechako or Fraser Rivers (or any river that it will cross) what would be the long term economic impacts?

Crazy they will let a pipeline through but won't grow hemp. To bad we have small minds to decide these things.

Chris, is this the only thing you ever think about? You musy have a boring life.

Retired wrote:
"Yes it will provide a few short term jobs and then we are back to where we are now struggling to survive to the next boom"

Could not agree more with this. THAT is the very problem I have with this venture. The gains made are not worth the risks all along the supply chain as well as the extraction process itself which is the dirtiest in the world.

How come so many people are against whole log exports yet will sell unrefined oil? This is really no different than that as far as I am concerned.

Want our trees? Tell us what you want us to make them into and we will sell it to you.

Want our oil? Tell us what you want to produce with it and we will do it for you or work jointly with you to produce it.

I wonder how many well paying, full time jobs that pipeline generated in Marshall?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jufZYCzyo50

Are we going to listen to people who cry about everything or are we going to proceed with technology to make our lives better, wealthier and easier? Send the whiners to the salt mines and lets get on with life,.,

pipeline bla where's the hemp, solar power , and battery and electric cars. Bla would is screwed.

fuel for cars Can be made from Hemp!!!!
you would actually be amazed at the veriety of poducts that can be produced from the (evil) Hemp

I don't want pipelines going anywhere. I just want my gas to magically appear under my local gas station. AND be cheap. Is that too much to ask?