Pipeline Review Petition: Meet with People not just Oil Execs

After 3-major oil spills hit Alberta in just over a month a network of landowner, health, labour and environmental groups called for an independent review of pipeline safety in the province. The network, which now represents over 60-groups, was worried about the impact oil spills have on communities, on public health, and on a fragile environment. Given the 3 major spills and the over 600 pipeline incidents that hit Alberta’s aging pipeline network every year the groups pushed for an independent review to get answers to Alberta’s pipeline problems. Read more »

Posted August 28, 2012 by AEN

Pipe Up About Enbridge's Dirty Pipeline!

Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton and it’s important that we are there.

Don’t Tar Our Future or BC’s Coast

Rally at the Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings

Wingate Inn (18220-100th Avenue)

Spread the word! Invite your friends to the Facebook event.

Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline is 1,170 km of potential destruction, proposed to go from just outside of Bruderheim, AB to Kitimat, BC. It would carry approximately 525,000 barrels/day of tar sands oil and 193,000 barrels/day of toxic condensate back along the same route to Alberta. The pipeline would cross the traditional and unceded territory of dozens of BC First Nations, over 1,000 streams and rivers – many of them salmon bearing – would go through the Great Bear Rainforest – the last remaining intact temperate rainforests on the planet –  and would bring over 200 super-sized oil tankers through one of the narrowest and most dangerous straights in Canada.  Every step on this path is a disaster waiting to happen. Each one would be tragic even before there is a spill. And each one can be prevented. Read more »

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Posted January 20, 2012 by AEN