Enbridge pipeline hearings return to Prince Rupert, days after tanker with crack in hull arrives at terminal
Hearings for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline will resume today in Prince Rupert to focus on marine safety and spills. The hearings are scheduled to run until Dec. 17.
The Prince Rupert hearings this week will focus on the environmental and social effects of the increased shipping the pipeline would bring, as well as marine safety and oil spills. The hearings come just days after Capesize Giuseppe Lembo, a tanker from Tianjin, China, arrived at Prince Rupert on Dec. 6 with a crack in the hull, according to the Maritime Bulletin.
Prince Rupert was the site of large demonstrations earlier this year against the pipeline, which would transport diluted bitumen from the oil sands in Alberta across British Columbia to the coastal port city of Kitimat.
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The Capesize Giuseppe Lembo is a bulk carrier, not a tanker. http://shipfax.blogspot.ca/2011/03/another-biggie.html
The Oil and gas corporations gain so much power over liberal government and the polictician? It's simple: Campaign finances. The corporations hire hoards of best most expensive lobbyists who dart in and out of Bc liberal poticians offices in victoria leaving behind trails of cash and corruption. Most policticians hardly ever meet with the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their time cavorting with corporate rabblerousers who operate based on the simple principle of greed. Think Endreige , but times a thousand. That's who controls the Bc liberals today.Company executives are paid to maximize profits, not to behave ethically
We all need to educate ourselves about corporations and how they control government and our very lives.the corporations run the BC liberals, BC taxpayers have no real future, because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the next generation. Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to maximize their profits right now, including poisoning the evoioment , .temeory foregion worker program reducing labour cost poision drinking water , poluting the oceans poisoning the local population with gas fracking , sacrificing the financial future of the BC for short-term gain, destroying the environment, ignoring the health care needs of the People. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future for higher profits today, and that's exactly what they've doing in BC.t big coperate money has corrupted our bc liberal policticians
If a major oil spill happened totally distrouing and covering the Bc coast with oil, Endbridge will declare bankruptsy and the Bc taxpayer will be stuck with the cklean up cost.the corparate excetive will have all their money in swiss bank accounts and the Bc taxpayer will be stuck paying all costs.