Oil in Eden

The battle to protect Canada's Pacific coast.

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.

LINK (Via:Grist)

"Safety is a top priority for Enbridge"

Gee, where have we heard that before?

The oil company responsible for this week's 819,000-gallon spill into the Kalamazoo River has a history of safety issues, according to federal regulators.

LINK (Via: CBS News)

This would be the same company that wants to build two pipelines across critical watersheds as part of the Alberta tar sands project.

U.S. regulators warned a subsidiary of Enbridge in January that it wasn't adequately monitoring the corrosion of a Michigan pipeline that leaked an estimated 3.8 million litres of oil into the Kalamazoo River this week.

LINK (Via: CTV NEWS)

Black Wave - The legacy of the Exxon Valdez

As the debate continues regarding the proposed Enbridge pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat and the associated supertanker traffic, here's a reminder about how oil tankers and pristine coastlines do not mix.

(Via: I'm Laila Yuile, and This Is How I See It)