Group Opposed To Pipeline Launches Speaking Tour

Monday, November 29, 2010 04:09 AM

Prince George, B.C. - The Sea to Sands Conservation Alliance is launching a speaking tour in Prince George tonight called, "Think Pipeline"...

The talk features two American environmentalists and Prince George is the first stop of many planned engagements in communities along the Northwest corridor.

Sea to Sands was initiated in Prince George by a group of concerned citizens opposed to Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project -- an approximately $5.5-billion dollar twin oil pipeline that would run 17-hundred-kilometres from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat.

"Think Pipeline" features Beth Wallace with the National Wildlife Federation who will talk about the 2010 Enbridge crude oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan and Erin O'Brien, with the Wisconsin Wetlands Association will discuss her state's experience with the 2007 construction of an Enbridge oil pipeline.

Tonight's talk begins at 7pm in UNBC's Canfor Theatre.

Meantime, there is no word yet from the Joint Review Panel assessing the project on when it will hold public hearings along the proposed pipeline route. The Panel -- involving both the National Energy Board and Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency -- held three public sessions in Prince George, Kitimat, and Whitecourt, Alberta in late summer seeking public comments aimed at refining that public hearing process. Click here to read transcripts from the panel sessions

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Posted on Monday, November 29, 2010 04:09 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: zyblxteu on November 29 2010 9:58 AM

With ENBRIDGES track record,this pipeline will not make it off the floor.
And do not need those crackhead pipeliners here in town either!
If they think they are gonna stuff this down the Natives throats ,there will be disent in the woods and will be a big black eye for enbridge.

Posted by: gamblor on November 29 2010 11:10 AM

so the eco-terrorists are hitting the road. Crackhead pipeliners, you mean crackhead natives?

Posted by: He spoke on November 29 2010 11:16 AM

Back to your neutral corners.

Not all natives are crack heads
Not all pipeliners are crack heads.

It is not all the natives responsibilities to say no to the pipelines. Not all natives will say no the pipeline. If you want to say no, stand up now.

For me, I support the pipeline, provided that they go beyound regulatory requirements. When does pro pipeline audience get to speak out.

Posted by: duffer on November 29 2010 11:22 AM

I would like to know why they have to bring in American environmentalists. Are Canadians not good enough? Is this just another case of the good old U.S.of A. trying to tell us what to do?

Posted by: mythoughts on November 29 2010 11:25 AM

Well said He Spoke. I also support the pipeline...jobs, jobs, jobs! We've had a lot of unemployment in the region and it's about time we had a boost to the economy. Go Enbridge!!! I believe it will get off the floor zyblxteu. Money talks, always has & always will.

Posted by: doogood on November 29 2010 12:02 PM

Get the pipeline in. We can use it when we pump out the oil from the Nechako Basin.

Crack is so 80's they use meth now!!!

Posted by: Retired on November 29 2010 12:26 PM

Yeh we can use this pipeline. It will make millions for the big corporations and export our polution proiblems to another part of the world.

Go go go tarsands. Polute polute we need the few jobs this project willl bring.
Cheers

Posted by: herbster on November 29 2010 1:38 PM

If we don't stop it, we are going to get used by this pipeline. Enbridge stands to make a billion dollars a year in extra profit by selling the oil to Chinese Refineries. They think by offering us a couple of years for work for pipeliners and 32 million of taxes a year we will accept the inevitable damage to our rivers and coast ecologies. We are at risk to lose Salmon fisheries in the Fraser, Nechako, Bulkey,Skeena, and Nass watersheds. No one has explained how they will cleanup an oil spill on a ice-covered river.

I don't want this pipeline. But if you do want it, don't be an idiot about it. There is a billion dollars per year of extra profit at stake here. Northerners deserve every penny of it for the risks we are asked to take. The original New Yorkers sold it for a bag of beads. Don't follow their example by accepting the trinkets that are now offered.

Posted by: HD on November 29 2010 3:55 PM

Here we go again, anything that would bring employment and money into this area needs to be STOPPED!

Posted by: doogood on November 29 2010 4:05 PM

The oil is going to get to China one way or the other. I would rather a pipeline over rails or trucks. You can put the environment as risk #1. The winnier will be the pipeline hands down.

Posted by: Harbinger on November 29 2010 4:54 PM

Sure hope the people at the meeting will be toasty warm, knowing the fuel fer the furnace there was brought there by a pipeline. Horrors!

Posted by: hood rich on November 29 2010 5:36 PM

any numbers for jobs, economic impact?

Posted by: pg250fan on November 29 2010 9:20 PM

Way to say it He Spoke "When does pro pipeline audience get to speak out."

The fact is that the supporters are not allowed to speak up without being accused of wanting to destroy the environment. Obviously this isn't the case, but who would listen to reasoned debate - certainly not those making a living off grandstanding.

Fact is whether the jobs are a plenty or a few, the profits will be significant and therfore so will the taxes. With that revenue we can continue to have "free" healthcare, policing, and generally a very good life no matter where you chose to live in this great country. That's not allowed to enter the argument though, its just assummed the government has infinite resources to make us all comfortable. Maybe if adjacent to the "no" was "here's an alternative project in as full detail wiith the same overall revenues to support the crown" people would have a better choice?

Posted by: herbster on November 29 2010 10:28 PM

Well you just made a good argument against the pipeline since all the profits go to Enbridge and not the crown. In fact all the municipalities along the pipeline's route will share the princely sum of 32 million dollars in tax revenue. That's it. Prince George's share of that 32 million? Absolutely zero.

Considering that cleaning up only one of Enbridge's U.S. spills has so far cost over 400 million dollars, with more cleanup required when winter ends, does that sound like a good deal to you?

Posted by: pg250fan on November 30 2010 9:29 AM

Are you that short sighted herbster? what do you think happens to revenue, maybe you live in a different Canada than I do, but I'm pretty sure it gets taxed. If you think property taxes alone keep all the social services running, you ought to wake up and take your head our of the sand or sea or wherever it may be stuck.

Posted by: herbster on November 30 2010 11:16 AM

Enbridge head office is in Calgary. I guess you figure since someone has to pay for Alberta's deficit, it may as well be us?

Posted by: pg250fan on November 30 2010 12:07 PM

So you think that if successful, a federally reviewed, permitted, and regulated pipeline would be taxed provincially?