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Hundreds pack Northern Gateway pipeline hearing
CBC News, Jan 10, 2012
$5.5B Enbridge project would send oilsands crude to Kitimat, B.C.
Hundreds of people attended the opening day of public hearings that may determine the fate of a controversial plan to build the Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast from Alberta's oilsands in the First Nations community of Kitamaat Village, B.C.
Feds play risky game with pro-pipeline talk
By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, January 10, 2012
Remarks about 'radical' groups hijacking regulatory process raises thorny questions about impartiality of Northern Gateway Project review
9:9 Kitimat torn by risks, rewards
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, January 10, 2012
Indecision reigns as hearings to open
A big part of Tracey John Hittel wants to support Enbridge's proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway twin oil and condensate pipelines.
But as public hearings on the project begin in his community today, he is torn.
8:9 Cultural divide: a tale of two provinces
By Peter O'Neil & Trish Audette, Vancouver Sun, January 9, 2012
Alberta champions project, while B.C. weighs economic reward with environmental risks
7:9 What if a supertanker tanks?
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, January 8, 2012
Seventh in a series
Two-tug escorts. Double-hulled tankers. Radar at critical stretches of coastline. A spill-response capability more than three times greater than now required by Transport Canada.
6:9 Oil spills costly to companies and environment, yet seem inevitable despite technology
By LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun, January 6, 2012
Sixth in a series
The transport of oil is big money. But so is a pipeline spill — something Enbridge Inc., proponent of the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project, knows painfully well.
5:9 Northern B.C. business community gives tepid support to pipeline project
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 4, 2012
Fifth in a series
The Kitimat Terrace Industrial Development Society stands out as the lone business group intervener in northern B.C. offering unqualified support for Enbridge’s proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline.
4:9 Environmental groups line up star power against Northern Gateway pipeline
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Fourth in a series: Opponents run gamut from well-funded U.S. advocates to small-budget local operations
3:9 First nations fiercely opposed to Northern Gateway
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Third in a series: While bands support projects involving natural gas and mines, oil spill threats raise red flags
The Gitga’at First Nation has been saying no to the Northern Gateway pipeline project since 2006.
2:9 Enbridge is a Canadian success story
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Energy company with a long history in Alberta prides itself on environmental stewardship
1:9 Northern gateway pipeline
By Compiled By Dave Cooper and Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, December 31, 2011
1) The line would start near Bruderheim in the Alberta Industrial Heartland region northwest of Edmonton, an area that contains Canada's largest collection of petrochemical plants and upgraders, as well as other industries ranging from fertilizer to industrial gas production.
0:9 Pipelines will fuel plenty of talk
By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, December 31, 2011
Final call on proposal expected at end of 2013, following multitude of hearings and reviews
Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline project began life nearly a decade ago as a market study on how to open up Alberta's oilsands resources to ocean trade with Asia.
Uproar in Gitxsan First Nation after support for Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline announced
By Mike Hager, Peter O’Neil and Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, December 5, 2011
Gitxsan First Nation communities held emergency meetings over the weekend to figure out how to scuttle a Northern Gateway pipeline deal with Enbridge Inc. announced Friday.
Battle brewing over pipeline plans in B.C.
Rod Mickleburgh, Globe and Mail, Nov. 02, 2011
So far British Columbia has been spared the kind of intense pipeline fight that buffets the proposed Keystone XL project to carry Alberta crude from the oil sands to Texas.
Enbridge to buy Encana’s 52% stake in Horn River Basin gas plant
By Reuters, Calgary Herald, October 7, 2011
Enbridge to invest up to $900 million in Cabin gas plant
Enbridge Inc. said it would buy a majority stake in the Cabin gas plant in British Columbia’s Horn River Basin from Encana Corp. and some other sellers for $250 million Cdn, as it looks to strengthen its Canadian midstream business.
Another suitor sidles up to Kitimat LNG
By Jeff Lewis, Alberta Oil, October 07, 2011
Enbridge is the latest company to show interest in export scheme
Putting environment on the line
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, October 4, 2011
Documentaries turn spotlight on issues affecting the planet
Several years ago I canoed a white-water river in northern B.C. so achingly beautiful and unvisited that I made a pact with my paddling buddy - also a journalist - never to write about the place.
Pipelines not even built but already competing
By TOM FOWLER, San Antonio Express News, September 29, 2011
Houston and Canadian firms propose Wrangler line from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast.
HOUSTON — TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline isn't the only big oil pipeline in the works.
Enterprise and Enbridge to Develop Crude Oil Pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf Coast
News Release, Enbridge, September 29, 2011
HOUSTON, TEXAS and CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Sept. 29, 2011) - Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) ("Enterprise") and Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) (NYSE:ENB) ("Enbridge") today announced plans to design, construct and operate a new pipeline to transport crude oil from the oversupplied hub at Cushing, Oklahoma to the Texas Gulf Coast refining complex.
Here comes Keystone XXL
Frik Els, Mining.com, September 29, 2011
Ottawa allegedly spooked by U.S. funding for West Coast environmental groups
By PETER O'NEIL, Vancouver Sun, September 9, 2011
‘Big Oil,’ shipping industry influenced decision, coalition, NDP say
OTTAWA - Environmental groups on Friday accused the federal government of ignoring science and capitulating to pressure from the petroleum industry when it killed a funding agreement to develop a Pacific North Coast oceans management plan.
First nations group rejects pipeline ownership offer
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, September 9, 2011
Enbridge's proposal to hand over 10-per-cent stake in $5.5-billion project called 'desperate and disrespectful attempt' to buy support
The five northern B.C. first nations that make up the Yinka Dene Alliance claim traditional territory that covers 25 per cent of the pipeline route.
Enbridge's push to the Pacific wins support from China
Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe and Mail, Sep. 01, 2011
CALGARY— Enbridge Inc. (ENB-T32.46-0.04-0.12%) has quietly garnered support from a powerful group of foreign interests for its controversial Asian export pipeline, as Chinese investors in Canada’s oil sands become increasingly bold in their ambitions to bring Canadian crude across the Pacific.
Pipeline plan back on tap: opponents
By MICHELLE LALONDE, The Gazette, August 26, 2011
Enbridge seeks transit to Maine
Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is quietly trying to make an end run around a proper assessment of its controversial Trailbreaker project to pipe tarsands oil across Canada to Montreal and then on to the United States, according to three Canadian and two U.S. environmental groups.
