Over the Edge + October 6, 2010 5

Questions about Enbridge

Major oil company leaves a lot of questions hanging in the air

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CONTRIBUTER spill would be 2/3rds as bad as what happened
in Michigan. However, this begs some significant
Are you... | was opening up one of my emails from an energy questions about the consequences that would
listserve | subscribe to and was not surprised to happen if the project were to proceed.
see an e-mail discussion on Enbridge’s assurances Although, the size of the maximum spill is small, |
. about pipeline safety. In July, Enbridge the should point out that we do not really know what
[x] In novative company which is proposing to build an oil and the effect of several separate spills would have
. condensate pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat, on the ecology of the rivers in Northern BC? Also
Determ l ned experienced a major oil spill in to the Kamlazoo considering the geology of the Coast Mountains,
i] A bi * River in Michigan from one of their (apperantly what is the probability that a landslide would hit
m itious poorly maintained) pipelines. That pipeline leaked the pipeline? The natural gas pipeline to Prince
roughly 19,000 barrels of oil into a river. However, Rupert was damaged by a landslide not that many
Enbridge recently stated in the Kitimat News- years ago, why would Enbridge be any different?
The Next 36 is looking for Sentinel that the worst case scenario was that only Considering that there many alternatives to oil
. 12,500 barrels would leak on the proposed Northern — through the adoption of electric vehicles and more
36 undergraduates like you Gateway Pipeline. efficient energy use, the pipeline is as socially useful
to become Canada’s next So what they are reassuring us with is that the as a toxic trinket.

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