There is no technology for cleaning oil spills from ice covered rivers. Considering that this pipeline has over 750 water crossings that are ice covered over 5 months a year, this project should be a non- starter. Trans-Canada Pipelines has already looked at this route and declared it non-viable. The only thing keeping this dog alive is the $100 million of Chinese money that has been spent, and the local politicians with greasy fingers.

Well said Herbster. Its not only the Natives that oppose this pipeline, its just that they are the only ones with any political clout.

For the Chinese this is about getting access to oil at almost any cost they can get away with to our environment here in Canada.

For the Globalists this is about creating access to a global market so as to price Canadian energy to Canadians at global prices thereby removing any energy advantage to Canadians and increasing their profit potentials enormously by many factors over what actually flows through this pipeline for the Chinese.

For the Conservatives this is about political power through campaign donations, especially once they remove the public funding per vote to the other parties and politics comes down to political donations from multinational corporations.

For the federal bureaucracy its about gaining another source of revenue to fund their out of control compensation and salaries.

For local politician its about the salary collected indirectly from the Chinese through Gateway.

For the residents of Northern BC its about losing our rivers, and coast, and all the salmon and wildlife that depend on these waters to the inevitable catastrophe when it happens. Very little in jobs will result from a pipeline or a project like this long term. Any royalties are insignificant when compared to the risk to our rivers and coast.

For those that rely on energy to heat their homes and fuel their cars its about paying more in the future for a limited supply on the global markets.

IMO the scope of the investigation into the pipeline should go beyond the environment and include as well Canadian strategic energy sustainability interests... but our globalist overlords in the PMO will not allow for that.

Good strategy by enbridge to get the rest of the public on their side. Blame the First Nations.

Money - if offered in sufficient quantities - may just overcome all objections. Wait and see!

Chevron has made substantial gas and oil finds in China. It's a huge country, and no doubt has huge amounts of untapped oil reserves.

About the time the Enbridge project would be up and running, China would have all the domestic oil they'd need for 100 years.

So why bother at all?

“As long as we’ve got the very strong federal government and, I think, general Canadian support of broadening out our markets that we will ultimately be successful. But it’s going to be a challenge.”

Isn’t this good news for us. The government will tell us what we need to do.. Sounds like the old “Bull Moose” story. Mr Daniel is probably right. They have the government in their back pocket and the First Nations will roll over given the right amount of money.
Cheers

Crude oil, usually called Texas Tea.

Now I know why some call the PC party the Tea Party of Canada.

My brother sent me an email about the "Baaken Formation". Apparently the government in the US found a "crapload" of oil under North Dakota and Montana. And I do mean a lot. I wonder why I haven't heard about this in the MSM?

Apparently 25 times more than the 1995 estimate. I paid $6 dollars for one "gallon" of gas for my snowblower. Not whining. Just making an observation.