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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
Russian tanker hits ice 300 miles from Nome
By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press, Anchorage Daily News, January 7th, 2012
VOYAGE TO NOME: Winter fuel oil delivery to coast would be a first.
A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Alaska city that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea.
Radioactive spill ship in legal limbo off North Vancouver
By James Weldon, North Shore News
Empty ship for sale by bankrupt owners while cargo's costs subject of civil suit
The cost of oil on B.C.’s priceless coast
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee, Vancouver Sun, June 18, 2011
If the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is approved, an estimated 225 supertankers a year would enter Kitimat to load about 318 million litres (two million barrels) of oil for shipment to American and Asian markets (“Pipelines to prosperity,” Harvey Enchin, Issues & Ideas, June 16). Loaded tankers would pass directly through Wright Sound, a body of water with more than 5,000 vessels moving through it annually. More than 400,000 vessel movements occur annually on the B.C. coast, so it is not surprising that accidents are common, including collisions, groundings and fires on board. Even vessels with state-of-the-art navigational equipment are vulnerable.
Canada dependant on honesty of tanker industry
By Andrew Mayeda, Vancouver Sun, February 8, 2011
No reliable method exists to track ship traffic down inside passage
State of the art - the very best tankers in the world today
Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, December 11, 2010
The prospects of Super Tankers carrying Canada's crude bitumen through Douglas Channel to Asian destinations has been provoking emotional reactions on both sides of the issue. One of the statements made regarding the transport of this product, and others, is the state of the technology today. The double hulled and new tankers, whether they be VLCC, ULCC's, Supertankers PanaMax, these newest ships and their technology are stated to be "State of the Art".
Victory for BC as NDP motion passes in Parliament
Nathan Cullen, Rupert Daily Online, December 7, 2010
One more marker along path to shut down Enbridge threat
British Columbia is one step closer to having a full legislated ban on supertankers off its north and central coasts after a motion introduced by MP Nathan Cullen received the support of Parliament just minutes ago.
MPs pass motion banning oil tankers off B.C. coast
The Star, December 7, 2010
The House of Commons has approved a motion calling for a permanent ban on oil tankers off British Columbia’s coast.
The NDP motion passed by a vote of 143-138, with all opposition parties supporting it and Conservatives opposed.
Ban on oil tanker traffic off B.C.'s coast gets opposition push
A Mayeda, Postmedia News, Vancouver Sun, December 7, 2010
OTTAWA — The opposition has stepped up its pressure on the Harper government to ban oil-tanker traffic off the B.C. coast, passing a motion in the House of Commons calling on the Conservatives to legislate a formal moratorium.
Tankers on Fraser would carry jet fuel for airport
By Jeff Nagel, BC Local News, November 17, 2010
Tankers may someday steam into the mouth of the Fraser River but they will likely carry jet fuel, not oil from Alberta's tar sands.
A proposed aviation fuel terminal in south Richmond just upstream of Deas Island would be the destination for tankers and barges to offload.
Oil ships to travel Fraser River in future?
Kent Spencer, The Province, November 07, 2010
Metro Vancouver residents haven't heard the last about oil-tanker traffic through Vancouver's harbour.
More ships could be coming -- and they could even be bigger.
There could also be tanker traffic up the Fraser River one day, the chief of Port Metro Vancouver has told The Province.
'In our own backyard': Crude-oil tankers quietly slipping through Vancouver's harbour
By Kent Spencer, The Province, November 6, 2010
Provisions, responsibility for dealing with a spill are vague, says opponent
Accountant Bill Gannon recalls watching an odd-looking cargo ship pass by his office window almost three years ago — well before locals cottoned on to the fact that dozens of oil tankers were shipping crude out through Vancouver’s harbour.
B.C. cities oppose northern oil pipeline, tanker traffic
By Jeff Nagel, Oak Bay News,October 01, 2010
A controversial pipeline that would carry oil sands crude from Alberta across northern B.C. to tankers on the north coast has taken a hit from the Union of B.C. Municipalities.
