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News regarding the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project has been somewhat below the radar recently, with the Keystone XL Pipeline taking most of the headlines.
However, that won’t last forever. As Calgary Herald columnist Deborah Yedlin noted right up front in her article the other day, January 10, 2012 marks the beginning of panel hearings for Northern Gateway by the NEB and the CEAA.
Yedlin is generally a supporter of big business, and this article is no exception. It could be subtitled ‘Follow the Money’.
However, a couple of letters to the editor in yesterday’s paper (Nov 07) are just a sampling of what we’ll likely be hearing from the other side as this process moves forward.
And the video at the bottom of this post shows even more clearly what this proposal is up against.
We live in interesting times.
Does everyone have a right to complain at Northern Gateway pipeline review?
By Deborah Yedlin,
Calgary Herald
November 4, 2011
The countdown is on to Jan. 10.
That's when the joint review panel hearings by the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency into the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project are set to start, somewhere in British Columbia (the actual locations of where the hearings will be held have yet to be released).
The question - with more than 4,000 individuals, companies and organizations registered to make a 10-minute statement - is whether it will be more of a filibuster than a hearing.
Although the math suggests about 95 days of hearings, assuming everyone shows up and the panel sits for seven hours each day, it's highly likely it will go on much longer.
Letters to the Editor
Paying the bill
By Paul Manly,
Calgary Herald
November 7, 2011
Re: "Does everyone have a right to complain?" Deborah Yedlin, Opinion, Nov. 4.
B.C. taxpayers will have to pay the bill and deal with the damage if an oil tanker carrying Alberta crude has an accident on our coast. Do we have a right to speak at the Enbridge environmental review? You better believe we do!
Paul Manly, Nanaimo, B.C.
Speaking up
By Sandy Slobodian,
Calgary Herald
November 7, 2011
Who will speak to the voracious multinational corporation that plans to use every means possible to push a project through? A plan that is not about creating jobs, but about ravaging the Earth to make a small number of people rich beyond belief and perpetuate carbon emissions. My family is Metis. My brother has supported his family for more than 30 years in the oil and gas industry. My sister, her daughter and twin grandchildren live in the Peace River region.
I was born and raised on Vancouver Island within sight of the coastal waters at risk. I have lived in Kitimat and Dawson Creek. My grandmother and her family were from Athabasca since before recorded Canadian history. I have contributed to the economy of this province, voted in the elections, volunteered and raised my family here. Who has the right to tell me I have no right to speak?
Sandy Slobodian, Victoria
