Forests

Noise limit could kill Mackenzie pipeline, Imperial says
Jeffrey Jones, National Post
Reuters
January 29, 2010

A panel's recommendation to enforce strict noise limits at a bird
sanctuary has the potential to shut down development of the $16.2-billion
Mackenzie pipeline in Canada's Arctic, the project's backers said.

The contention is among several by Imperial Oil Ltd
and its Mackenzie partners in written responses to proposals made by the
Joint Review Panel, which assessed the massive project's environmental and
socioeconomic impacts in a report issued at the end of last year.

This is damning in the extreme. What with the combination of pine beetle, forest fires and more the forests have slunk to somewhere in either the "store" or the emitter categories in BC. These people know this, they have been confronted with the science to debunk the theory that arbitrary protection of a random 50% of the forest can do *anything* ... See moreto alleviate climate change.

Tarsands leave behind ecological dead zone
By: Staff Writer (Winnipeg Free Press)
16/01/2010

DEAR EDITOR,

Don Klassen's letter (In defence of oilsands, Jan. 11) gives the impression that the Alberta oilsands are, relative to China and American industrial emissions, an ecologically benign development. This would be true, relative to China and the U.S., only if the sole dimension to the environmental issue of the tarsands involved CO2 emissions, which is not the case.

Outspoken chief was once 'quiet kid'

By Darcy Henton, Edmonton Journal
January 25, 2010

George Poitras looked out the window of his Fort McMurray office and saw opportunity. Outside the restaurant across the street was Premier Ed Stelmach's face beaming at him from the side of a bus.

Enbridge Pipeline crews cleaning up oil leak near Neche, N.D.
UPDATED 10:20 A.M.

Heavy equipment was at the site this morning, skimming soil from the surface to the frost line, according to Pembina County Sheriff Brian Erovick. "it's fairly deep, but it's not that big of any area," he said.

By: Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald

Enbridge pipeline crews are cleaning up a 3,000-barrel crude oil leak near Neche, N.D.

The leak, reported to be about 126,000 gallons of light crude oil, was detected late Friday night by an Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P., control center.

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.

Mackenzie Pipeline saga to drag on despite Joint Review Panel approval
By Lauren Krugel (CP)

CALGARY — The Mackenzie Gas Project's supporters will usher in 2010 having passed a major milestone in what has been a long and often frustrating process.

But it's not time to uncork the champagne just yet.

There are numerous hurdles the backers of the 1,200-kilometre natural gas pipeline through the Northwest Territories must clear before a single segment of pipe can be laid.