Enbridge Has No Spill-Response Plan for Northern Gateway Pipeline Must Read!

Carol Linnitt | Supertankers, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis, Oh My: Enbridge Has No Spill-Response Plan for Northern Gateway Pipeline

desmogblog.com 30 Oct '12, 8pm

Enbridge Has No Spill-Response Plan for Northern Gateway Pipeline Must Read!

Saturday's quake has given cause to reconsider not only the threats posed by the pipeline Enbridge plans to build from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, BC, but also the dangers of supertanker traffic along a volatile coastline. “I think we have all been complacent about what happens, or what can potentially happen, with an earthquake,” Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Ellis Ross told the Globe and Mail . “We have to think about that in the context of supertankers carrying crude oil in Douglas Channel or outside Hartley Bay or outside Haida Gwaii. ... I think that has to be part of the discussion.” Enbridge spokesman Todd Nogier downplayed the risks earthquakes pose to supertanker traffic, saying tsunami dangers would be mitigated by the Douglas Channel's deep and wide waterways . Enbridge infamously misrepresented the Douglas Channel in a Northern Gateway commercial that remo...

Full article: http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/30/pipelines-supertanke...

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