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Northern Gateway: Pipeline to Ecological Disaster

Pacific Free Press by Ray Grigg l Shades of Green Enbridge’s proposal to build a 1172 km Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat through some of the most challenging and remote territory on the planet exposes wild rivers, landscapes and a pristine BC coast to … Click for more

Transport Canada has ‘no regulatory concerns’ with plans for Northern Gateway …

Yahoo! News Canada (blog) Transport Canada gave thumbs-up to a key component of the plan. The federal department told the Joint Review Panel examining the project that it had "no regulatory concerns" with Enbridge’s plans to bring the giant tankers to Kitimat on the northern BC … Click for more

Minister slams Terrace, BC’s opposition to Northern Gateway pipeline

Winnipeg Free Press TERRACE, BC – BC Energy Minister Rich Coleman has criticized Terrace city council for its decision to oppose the $5.5 billion Northern Gateway oil pipeline. Coleman said Wednesday he can’t tell municipal politicians what to do, but he prefers local … Click for more

Enbridge pipeline bad for the economy

Winnipeg Free Press The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline will deliver an inflationary oil price "shock" to Canadians of US$2 to $3 per barrel "every year for 30 years," a BC economist predicts. Robyn Allan, former president of the Insurance Corp. of BC and senior … Click for more

Alberta First Nations leaders join BC nations in push against Gateway pipeline

CTV.ca Charles Heit, a Gitxsan First Nation member opposed to the $5.5-billion Enbridge oil pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia port of Kitimat warms himself beside a fire at a camp outside the Gitxsan Treaty Office in Hazelton, BC, … Click for more

Aboriginal leaders stand firm against Northern Gateway pipeline

CBC.ca Stars lend power to fight The public hearings continue in Kitamaat Village Wednesday before moving on to Terrace, BC, Thursday afternoon. MAP Canada’s crude oil pipeline Charting TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline Members from Douglas Channel … Click for more

Public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern pipeline to begin Jan. 10

Vancouver Sun Enbridge’s Northern Gateway bid is to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, along a 1172-kilometre route to Kitimat on the BC coast. One would be a 36-inch pipe, which would deliver to Kitimat for export up to 525000 … Click for more

$72B in lost revenue at stake in BC Northern Gateway pipeline

Vancouver Sun The forecast, drawn up by Houston-based consultant Harold York for the firm Wood Mackenzie, is largely based on the expectation that Alberta oil sells at a higher price on an international market than it does in North America. … Click for more

Enbridge pipeline to BC coast gets support of Gitxsan hereditary …

Winnipeg Free Press Northern Gateway would help increase Canadian oil exports shipped by tanker from BC ports to China and other Pacific Rim countries. Click for more from the Winnipeg Free Press

Pipelines and Tankers: the Building Pressure

Montreal Gazette To reinforce this support, Harper’s Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, has endorsed Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – a $5.5 billion project that would bring oil and gas through 1172 km of BC’s wilderness to Kitimat – before the public … Click for more

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