From Tar Sands to Tankers - The Battle to stop Enbridge

The Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal would build two parallel pipelines from Alberta's tar sands to BC's north coast. If approved, the pipelines would traverse the salmon-bearing Upper Fraser and Skeena watersheds, and would bring 225 oils tankers a year to BC's northern coastal waters.

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Think this project and pipeline is just a Canadian environmental disaster? Think again.

The Alberta tar sands project will also have a profound impact on the lower 48 states. Imperial Oil, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, has proposed building a high/wide corridor through some of the most pristine lands in Idaho and Montana to facilitate the shipment of equipment from Korea to be used in the tar sands project.

Imperial, which is 69.6 percent owned by ExxonMobil, has proposed to Montana that an initial round of 200 giant machines creep through the state almost daily and nightly for a year. Some of the machines weigh 334,000 pounds and measure 24 feet wide by 30 feet tall by 160 feet long.

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Comments

[FreshWatersJournal]

This is really sad. What a disaster! I wonder when we will finally understand that what happens around the oil business is the worst disease the earth has ever known. Oil Business is what Cancer is to human beings!

Thanks for sharing this moldychum!!

[Dbag]

mo money mo problems

[pgk]

And the majority of the arctic watershed!! The line bisects the entire upper arctic watershed from the Pembina to McLeod Lake, refuges for some of the most southern Grayling populations (listed as critically imperiled in BC), Alberta's threatened Bulltrout and Athabasca Rainbow populations. As if these drainages don't have enough to contend with.

The stat that needs to be listed here is Enbridge's 3 massive spills in the last 3 months!!! And we're going to let these knobs build a line across the three most valuable watersheds in western Canada??

Thanks for posting this chum, I hope it motivates people to do something.

[Jim]

So, where is it safe or ok to drill, extract, and transport oil? It's not going away anytime soon if ever. Too many things depend on it. Like the medium used here to present this story. Not being sarcastic but asking an honest question. It seems that every time there is a development presented it is automatically greeted with a no.

For the record, I'm not for trashing the environment and am adamantly opposed to developments that would.

[JG]

Sad indeed. Big olil has screwed up before and will again. This time it will be at the expense of one of the greatest outdoor recreational areas known to man...Truly sad stuff...

[chaveecha]

fuck the planet for a buck? for a job? whomever agrees with that proposal deserves to drown in a bucket of tar. there's a special place in hell for such money-grubbing, evil fucks.

[Well, Oh well.]

Ok I'll take the blame, it's my fault.

I know, let's all stop using gasoline. That will likely slow them down.

[Oh Canada]

Showing the enemy the oil sands yet celebrating netting of wild salmon and steelhead...nice. perhaps they should rethink their focus

[Uncle Eddy]

And who is the biggest buyer of this oil????

[David R]

shut em down, lock em out, there are better options than the tarsands

[Rainier fisher]

Oil business is CANCER!

[Pierre Trudeau]

Rainier Fisher,
Start riding your bike and ditch the car and lawnmower.

[Rainier fisher]

French guy,

Thanks for the great advice............