Why is this man smiling?

Enbridge Inc. will be bribing offering First Nations along its proposed Northern Gateway project hundreds of millions of dollars to agree to the controversial oilsands pipeline, the company said.

Under the pipeline giant's offer, First Nations and Metis communities along the $5.5-billion project would receive approximately $380 million in income over three decades.

Most of the tribes aren't biting. "We're not interest in the package, regardless of what they are offering," said Terry Teegee, vice chief with the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. "Our community members have already stated it's not worth the risk of not if but when the pipeline breaks.

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Nearly 7 months after an Enbridge oil pipeline blew out and spilled 843,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo river the clean up continues.

Now Enbridge says they're not responsible for the spill.

Despite public promises to compensate residents for losses associated with the oil spill, Enbridge is arguing that it is not legally liable for damages from the spill.

First Megaload Violates Permit Rules

Before getting a permit to move the giant oil refinery equipment, Conoco Phillips had to agree shipping them would cause no longer than a 15 minute traffic delay for drivers behind them on the highway. A couple of nights ago, KREM 2 News was told the first shipment caused a 59 minute delay at a sharp curve on Highway 12 between Greer and Kamiah.

Opponents of this new industrial corridor have said all along that the megaload route was not engineered for loads of this size.

Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives On the Alberta Tar Sands

Some truly frightening images from Alberta.

Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler's "Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands" offers an unparalleled view of the world's largest industrial, capital and energy project.

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4 Megaloads Get Approval

Highway 12's transformation into an industrial corridor takes another step forwrad.

ConocoPhillips Company has won the contested case hearing concerning its application for permits to haul four oversized shipments of oil equipment from Lewiston to Billings. 

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All Against the Haul has much more on this environmental boondoggle.

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.

Learn more at: dogwoodinitiative.org/

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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