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Enbridge pipeline review slammed at meeting
Aug 31, 2010The Canadian Press
- Aboriginal leaders in BC challenged Enbridge's pipeline proposal during a rally Tuesday coinciding with the first Joint Review Panel session in Kitimat
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Elevated levels of toxins found in Athabasca River
Aug 30, 2010The Globe and Mail
- Finding refutes long-standing claims that water quality hasn’t been affected by oil sands development
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Cyclists head south to help after oil spill
Aug 29, 2010Victoria Times Colonist
- Three Victoria boys head to Louisiana to volunteer their time to the Gulf oil spill and to bring attention to oil spill potential in BC.
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Report: Hundreds of defects in Enbridge oil pipeline
Aug 28, 2010
- Hundreds of defects have been found in Enbridge's pipeline in the years before the Kalamazoo spill. Enbridge's lack of response gives no confidence to local officials
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B.C. poll shows pipeline opposition
Aug 28, 2010Edmonton Journal
- Poll shows almost half of oppose two pipeline projects and only one-third support them.
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Feds say Enbridge pipeline may never restart
Aug 27, 2010The Michigan Messenger
- Restart plan continues to be plagued with problems. John Porcari, Deputy Undersecretary of Transportation, listens to concerns from local residents during hearing
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B.C. Artists Protest Quilts Contribute to BP Oil Spill Discussion
Aug 18, 2010Vancouver Sun
- The well-known Gabriola Island quilter has turned to what she knows best to galvanize her community to create protest quilts in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.
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The Other Vantreights
Aug 16, 2010Monday Magazine
- After years of newspaper and television reports referring to their brother Ian’s Central Saanich business as the “Vantreight family farm,” sisters Heather Vantreight, Wendy Gedney and Sharon Hancock are tired of journalists making their relatives out to be the Sound of Music’s Von Trapp’s, all-the-more so since the three can only shake their heads from the sidelines as the agricultural enterprise where they grew up slides toward subdivision
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CUPE BC opposes Enbridge tanker plans to navigate off coast
Aug 16, 2010
- Citing this week’s Enbridge oil spill that has threatened a Michigan river and the earlier disaster by British Petroleum that devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, the B.C. division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees today joined First Nations and environmental groups in voicing opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.
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How the Tar Sands Threaten Canada's Economic Fate
Aug 13, 2010The Tyee
- Every week Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach lectures Canadians that the mighty tar sands are a boon to the national economy. But the economic fallout from rising oil exports, in the absence of sensible national policy, totally dwarf the tar sands significant environmental messes
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Regulator rejects Enbridge pipeline restart plan
Aug 11, 2010Reuters
- Regulator south of the boarder rejected Enbridge Inc's plan to restart a pipeline that spilled oil into a Michigan river system, adding further uncertainty about how soon it will resume service
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Vancouver filmmaker walking, biking from Bruderheim to Kitimat
Aug 10, 2010Edmonton Journal
- Filmmaker Frank Wolf and friend Todd McGowan are tracing the path of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from north of Edmonton to Kitimat, B.C. by bike and on foot.
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Make it permanent
Aug 06, 2010The Globe and Mail
- Allowing oil tankers would threaten the foundations of a sustainable north coast economy. Where oil moves, oil spills.
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Tanker traffic in an oil-spill-sensitive world
Aug 05, 2010The Globe and Mail
- Should the informal moratorium on oil tankers off British Columbia’s northern shores be made mandatory? Dogwood's Eric Swanson says yes.
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U.S. group threatens to sue Enbridge over pipeline oil spill
Aug 03, 2010The Calgary Herald
- Enbridge Inc. could be headed to court over its pipeline oil spill in Michigan and face millions of dollars in fines if it's found to have violated a federal law, warns an environmental group that's threatening to sue.
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Environmental law center sends Enbridge notice of planned suit over Kalamazoo River oil spill
Aug 02, 2010Chicago Tribune
- A public interest law firm prepared Monday to sue the owners of a pipeline that ruptured in southern Michigan and dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, while residents voiced concerns to government officials following a community meeting.
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Vancouver filmmaker traces proposed pipeline path by bike, foot
Aug 01, 2010Vancouver Sun
- Vancouver filmmaker Frank Wolf biked out of Fort McMurray 22 days ago to trace the proposed path of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
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EPA rejects cleanup plan, seeks new one
Jul 31, 2010Detroit Free Press
- MARSHALL -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of disapproval to Enbridge Energy Partners for "deficient" long-term work plans regarding the cleanup of possibly 1 million gallons of oil spilled into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River last week.
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The Enbridge Dirty Dozen
Jul 31, 2010The Tyee
- Michigan disaster follows 12 other big spills or penalties this decade for giant aiming to pipe tar sands oil to Kitimat
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Drilling the oil and gas commission
Jul 30, 2010Squamish Chief
- The independent agency responsible for regulating British Columbia’s oil and gas industry has no restrictions on its staff being seconded to the firms they’re responsible for watchdogging.
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