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Northwest Territories Looking to Bid for Pipelines

Lynsey Kitching
May 27, 2013
Tumbler Ridge News

The enormous opposition to the potential pipelines (Enbridge and Trans-Canada) in BC has spurred the Northwest Territories (NWT) to speak up and offer a solution to Alberta’s dilemma of getting their resources to market.

David Ramsay, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment for the NWT says, “If those opportunities don’t come for Alberta to the west coast, through a province like BC, we want to be seen as an option.”

Enbridge to meet re-elected B.C. Liberals on Northern Gateway

Rebecca Penty, Bloomberg News | 13/05/24

Enbridge Inc. is moving ahead with plans to meet five conditions for the British Columbia government to support its proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline, after a Liberal re-election made clear terms needed to satisfy officials in the Pacific Coast province.

Unistoten Action Camp

by Noah Ross
Media Coop, August 8, 2012

Beginning on August 5th, the Unistoten, a clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, have established a checkpoint located on the bridge over the Morice River.

The checkpoint is in the path of the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline south of Smithers in Northern British Columbia. It is being implemented in conjunction with the 3rd annual Unistoten Action Camp, which has attracted over 150 participants and is intended to build support for resistance to the Pacific Trails Pipeline.

B.C. newspaper tycoon proposing $13-billion oil refinery for Northern Gateway oil

By GORDON HOEKSTRA,
VANCOUVER SUN
August 17, 2012

VANCOUVER - B.C. community newspaper tycoon David Black proposed today building a $13-billion oil refinery near Kitimat to use all of the crude from Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.

It would mean tankers would ship refined fuels like gasoline off of B.C. northwest coast, not heavy oil from Alberta, reducing environmental risks, says Black.

A refinery also promises 10 times as many jobs as an export pipeline.

Tar Sands Giants’ Sneaky New Playbook Revealed

By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 7, 2012 at 10:46 am

by Tony Iallonardo, via National Wildlife Federation

Polluters seem to have drawn the wrong lesson from the Keystone XL controversy. Rather than temper the headlong rush to exploit tar sands, they’re getting sneakier.

Map of pipeline route across Vermont

Will tar sands oil flow through Vermont?

by Craig Idlebrook | June 19, 2012
Vermont Digger

Editor’s note: A companion story to this piece, Environmental groups push for preemptive halt to oil transit, by Alan Panebaker, was published on VTDigger.org today.

More BS than Bitumen Flowing From Alberta After Third Recent Spill
by Damien Gillis l The Canadian.ca

A story in yesterday's Edmonton Journal on the latest pipeline spill in Alberta, this one near Elk Point, was more full of crap than the province's rivers and farms are full of oil these days.

Despite Spills, Enbridge Pushes For More Oil Sands Pipelines
6/26/2012

Alberta's three oil sand deposits are known as the Athabasca Oil Sands, the Cold Lake Oil Sands, and the Peace River Oil Sands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

B.C. First Nations dispute Enbridge pipeline claims – British Columbia – CBC News
Posted on June 6, 2012 by admin

A group representing several B.C. First Nations says Enbridge is wrong to claim 60 per cent of aboriginal communities along the proposed route of the Northern Gateway pipeline have signed on to the project.

Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt says he has checked with every aboriginal group along the route from Alberta to Kitimat and only found two that have signed equity agreements with Enbridge.

Awed by oil sands, Mulcair calls for more environmental oversight

JOSH WINGROVE

EDMONTON — The Globe and Mail

Published Thursday, May. 31 2012

Precisely one thing surprised Thomas Mulcair on his visit to Alberta: the scale of the oil sands.

During his first visit, including a helicopter flight over several oil sands mines, to a region he has criticized, Mr. Mulcair was overwhelmed by the “awe-inspiring” display.

He stopped short, however, of calling the mines dirty.