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Deh Cho First Nations firm on demands before it will allow pipeline to cross land

Roxanna Thompson and Guy Quenneville
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, January 7, 2010

DEH CHO - The Dehcho First Nations has identified several areas of concern within the long-awaited report from the Joint Review Panel on the potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Mackenzie Gas Project.

The panel released the report on Dec. 30, more than four years late. The report's title "Foundation for a Sustainable Northern Future" reflects its positive review of the project.

Mackenzie pipeline hearings set for April

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
CBC News

If approved, the 1,200-kilometre natural gas pipeline would be built through the N.W.T.'s Mackenzie Valley to link northern gas with existing networks in Alberta.If approved, the 1,200-kilometre natural gas pipeline would be built through the N.W.T.'s Mackenzie Valley to link northern gas with existing networks in Alberta.

The National Energy Board (NEB) will hold a final round of hearings in mid-April on the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline in the Northwest Territories.

Tar tankers: The mystery of the missing moratorium
By Blair Redlin
| January 6, 2010 // Rabble

Most British Columbians, and many Canadians, probably believe there is a moratorium preventing oil tankers from plying the waters off the fragile and beautiful B.C. north coast. After all, hasn't the federal government banned oil tankers from entering Dixon Entrance, the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound since 1972?

Pale Greens Honor BC Climate Vandals
December 29, 2009

For some, a tiny tax outweighs massive environmental destruction

by Roger Annis

At first glance, it seemed that the “Yes Men” had scored another comedic coup for Mother Earth. CBC Radio news reported on December 16 that on the previous day, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell was feted and presented an environmental award by many of Canada’s well-heeled “environmental groups” during the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen.

Review panel green-lights Mackenzie pipeline
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
CBC News

Canadian Arctic gas pipeline report due Wednesday
Tue Dec 29, 2009

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The panel assessing the socioeconomic and environmental impact of a C$16.2 billion ($15.6 billion) gas pipeline in northern Canada will issue its long-awaited report on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected, the Northern Gas Project Secretariat said.

The Joint Review Panel has been preparing its findings and recommendations on the proposed 1,220 km (760 mile) Mackenzie Pipeline since public hearings into the project wrapped up more than two years ago.

On Saturday, December 19th, eco-activist Ingmar Lee unfurled a banner
high atop the flagpole at BC's legislature in an effort to draw
attention to the planned pipeline that will ship dirty oil from
Alberta, through the precious Great Bear Rainforest, to Kitimat BC
where it'll be processed and transported along our ragged coast by
supertankers for export. Remember the Exxon Valdez?

Ingmar tells his story here:
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5232-climbing-the-pole-for-forest...

CHEK TV'S video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YqRnHeCud4

Ingmar Lee writes:

In the context of all the hot-air being emitted at Copenhagen, I offer this
piece:

I've just read a fantastic piece of historic Canadian literature, (The
Silence of the North) -a memoir by pioneer trappers-wife, Olive A.
Fredrickson, as told to author Ben East. She reminisces from her experiences
in the north of Alberta and BC in the 1920's when all was wild up there. Her
travels in the then wilderness took her all through the area around Fort
McMurray, now the epicentre of the Alberta Tar Sands planetary blight.

Toxic chemical levels higher in water downstream of Alberta oilsands plants

[This photo shows how at least one company is bulldozing right to the Athabasca River's edge.
Photograph by: Erin Kelly, University of Alberta , edmontonjournal.com]

By Hanneke Brooymans, edmontonjournal.com
December 7, 2009

EDMONTON — Levels of toxic chemicals in the Athabasca watershed are up to 50 times higher downstream of oilsands development, a new University of Alberta study has found.

Pipeline review draws criticism
Environmentalists say scope of hearings is too narrow
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
December 5, 2009

Federal terms of reference for assessing the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline brought instant condemnation from environmental groups yesterday.

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Energy Board announced they will hold open forums on the pipeline, which would run from the Alberta oilsands to a port at Kitimat.