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MARGARET SPEIRS / THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
Paul Sametz points out the weak spot in the ‘pipeline’ that he and Ian Gordon carried around to show their opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project outside the Best Western Inn, the site of final federal hearings into the project.
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TERRACE - Final hearings into Enbridge’s massive Northern Gateway pipeline plan to ship Alberta oil to a marine terminal at Kitimat for export overseas are expected to wrap up next week. A federal review panel examining the multi-billion project began hearing oral summations June 17 at the Best Western Terrace Inn. Leading a list of 35 scheduled speakers was Enbridge itself with a two-hour presentation made by company lawyer Richard Neufeld. He said Enbridge had taken additional measures to ensure that the public, opponents, and those living along the pipeline
right-of-way could have confidence in the project. That includes specialized measures to ensure tankers will not have adverse effects on marine or terrestrial life, including a plan to monitor the marine environment three years prior to the project and three years afterward to ensure no negative effects on marine birds and shoreline communities, he said. From the outset of the project, it’s been believed that “emergency preparedness begins with accident prevention,” said Neufeld. Having escort tug boats is a measure above and beyond what others do – there are thousands and thousands of worldwide tanker ports and only a few use mitigation measures such as escort tugs, he said.
Some opponents have said eral counsel for the Haida, told that the project must look at cata- the three-member panel examinstrophic events that can’t be pre- ing the project that “safety issues dicted and should be prepared relating to open water areas have for. not been adequately considered,” 179 data” “We say the project has done adding that the “baseline exactly that,” said Neufeld, add- • Full about the effects of tanker traffic Awning 9O $116marine ing it has looked at the ways and • Sleeps on the coastal up totraditional 6 PER MONTH alternatives to keep the risk of • Only life $was insufficient. 14,995.00 spills as close to zero as is prac-Stk. # 3390 In particular, traditional watical. ters of the Haida including those 210the HecAlso speaking earlier this at the Dixon Entrance, week were representatives of the • Bunk ate Beds Strait and Queen Charlotte Haida First Nation. Sound, as well as $on the 48 west • Full Galley Kitchen 133 Haida president Peter Lan- • Only side$17,299.00 of the island,PER needed to be MONTH tin said Enbridge decided not toStk. #fully 3397 examined, she said. work with the Haida early on, The hearings are expected to 260with the calling it a poor decision. wrap up later next week Giving the Haida more say • Jack panel to prepare its & Jillthen Bunk retiring Beds Beds in project development could • Queen report. 41 $ ½ TonThat Towablereport is to139 “avoid conflict at the operation • finished $ PERbeMONTH • Only 17,995.00 level,” he said. the end of the year and presented Stk. # 3694 Meanwhile, lawyer Terri- to the federal cabinet which will 212 fate. Lynn Williams-Davidson, gen- then decide the pipeline’s
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