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By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Eighteen months after being ordered to correct important safety issues with its oil and gas pipelines, Enbridge has finally filed a plan with the National Energy Board (NEB) as to how and when it will come into compliance with the NEB’s regulations. The company [...] The post Enbridge asks NEB to keep pipeline safety issues secret appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. Enbridge buried pipeline marker – east Toronto. Credit: Adam Scott/Environmental Defence. Federal opposition MPs and environmental groups are crying foul over what they see as the government’s attempt to curtail public comment on Enbridge’s proposed 639-km Line 9 reversal pipeline route through southern Ontario and into Quebec. Tucked away in last spring’s Bill C-38 omnibus budget bill from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is a requirement that any member of the public or other stakeholders wishing to comment through the National Energy Board on Enbridge’s proposed pipeline must apply for permission to comment on the project by filling out (Read more…) Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Last Thursday, April 4th the National Energy Board (NEB) announced that anyone who wished to comment on Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline proposal in Central Canada even by simply writing a letter would need to fill out a 10 page application form within 2 weeks. This is, of course, absurd, since it will take the NEB far longer to review these 10 page applications and decide who will be allowed to write a letter, then it would have taken to read the letters. While the NEB says this new form is in response to Bill C-38 . . . → Read More: Environmental Law Alert Blog: NEB should abandon undemocratic limits on public comment Rules “a consequence of weakened federal environmental laws under Bill C-38″ By: Greenpeace Canada & Environmental Defence | Press Release: TORONTO, ON, Apr 5, 2013 – New undemocratic rules are creating a barrier to public participation in upcoming National Energy Board (NEB) hearings into the proposal for Enbridge’s Line 9 oil pipeline. [...] The post New undemocratic rules barrier to public participation in Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline hearings appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. 
 Advocacy, Bill C-38, Canada, climate change, Enbridge, energy, environment, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Defence, Environmental Laws, Featured, Greenpeace Canada, Guest Blog, line 9, national energy board, NEB, Omnibus Budget, Ontario, Petro-state, pipeline, Politics News, Press release, public participation, quebec, Tar Sands, Undemocratic Rules By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive A former TransCanada Corporation employee who blew the whistle on the rising pipeline incidents and rule-breaking by Big Oil has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Golden Whistle Blower Award. Evan Vokes, a former professional materials engineer at TransCanada Pipelines (TCPL), received the award in Ottawa on Monday. [...] The post TransCanada Pipelines Whistleblower Receives National Award appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By Council of Canadians | Feb. 11, 2013: OTTAWA – The Council of Canadians is opposed to a west-to-east oil pipeline plan being proposed by TransCanada Corp., which is supported in principle by the Harper government, and enthusiastically backed by the Alberta and New Brunswick provincial governments. The pipeline – which could move upwards of one million barrels of READ MORE
Alberta, Alison Redford, Business News, Canada, Canada Oil Exports, Canadian Energy Strategy, Council of Canadians, environment, Featured, Government, Guest Blog, Harper government, Irving Refinery, Keystone XL Pipeline, Maude Barlow, national energy board, natural gas, New Brunswick, Press release, Progressive Organizations, Tar Sands, TransCanada Corp., West-to-east Oil Pipeline In this time of unprecedented climate change, I think most people realize that Stephen Harper has an unhealthy addiction to oil, one that marks him as truly retrogressive as he seeks to return Canada to its traditional role as primarily an exporter of resources, all the while couching that backward movement with the use of muscular language, calling us, for example, an energy superpower. And of course, when that language fails to convince, there is always the vilification of opponents, the muzzling of scientist, etc., all arrows in the quiver of this fatuous autocrat. Yet despite all of those . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: Thomas Walkom – Harper and Oil Wednesday, August 1, 2012 All right, maybe Calgary is not a verb. But if you’re among the 4000+ Canadians who have registered to make an oral presentation to the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel (JRP) that’s considering the controversial Enbridge Pipelines and Tankers Project, and you haven’t scheduled a time to be heard, then you’d better jump to it. Calgarians who were registered to speak found out the hard way last week – if you snooze your public hearing gets cancelled. And the thing is – it's not their fault. They were told that they . . . → Read More: Environmental Law Alert Blog: Enbridge foes: Schedule your statement so you don’t get Calgaried Those who believe the Harper propaganda that the changes to environmental oversight contained in Omnibus Bill C-38 are simply ‘housekeeping’ and ‘streamlining’ measures may find this notification from the National Energy Board of interest: As a result of the amendments to section 118, the Board no longer requires applicants for oil and gas export licences and gas import licences to file the following information under the Part VI Regulations: 12. (f) information respecting the potential environmental effects of the proposed exportation and any social effects that would be directly related to those environmental effects; Information to be Furnished by Applicants . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: Exposing More Harper Lies |
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