BREAKING: PM approves gateway, says Enbridge must show it can meet 209 conditions, undertake more aboriginal consultations Via – Bloomberg News The Canadian government approved Enbridge Inc. (ENB)’s Northern Gateway pipeline, a person familiar with the decision said, which would eliminate the final major regulatory obstacle for the conduit that would move Alberta oil to the Pacific coast for shipment to Asia. The approval of the C$6.5 billion ($6 billion) project by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet is subject to Enbridge satisfying the 209 conditions placed on the proposal by a regulatory review panel in December, the person said, asking not to be named because the decision isn’t public yet. Meanwhile Representatives of Coastal First Nations, Dogwood Initiative, Unifor, West Coast Environmental Law, Douglas Channel Watch and One Cowichan stood together Monday to confirm their intent to build democratic resistance to the project, using a citizens’ initiative — the petition process that overturned the HST. LetBCvote.ca has been in the works for months, prepared by members of the Dogwood Initiative in anticipation of the federal decision, Executive director of Coastal First Nations, Art Sterritt, said Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs to listen to B.C. “Eighty per cent of British Columbians have opposed tanker traffic on the coast of British Columbia,” he said. “Sixty-seven per cent now say they are opposed to this pipeline.” In contrast to the approach currently being taken by companies hoping to pursue liquid natural gas projects, Sterritt said Enbridge has been deaf to First Nation perspectives on a pipeline for nine years. He added that people should understand that First Nations are not automatically opposed to development proposals. “It’s our communities that need jobs as much as anybody else — if not more so,” he said. 5 more pipelines to watch The Northern Gateway isn’t the only pipeline that could remake the face of North America’s energy supply and roil the continent’s political waters. Here is a list of five more — some well-known, others not so much: 1. Keystone XL – The southern portion of the pipeline is built and working, although there were some problems with the welds. After two U.S. State Department environmental assessments and a redrawing of the route around an environmentally sensitive area in Nebraska, everyone is still waiting on a decision from the White House. 2. Energy East - TransCanada only submitted its application to the National Energy Board in March. NEB information sessions have only just begun. 3. Line 9 reversal - The pipeline is divided into two sections. Line 9a runs from Sarnia, Ont., to just west of Hamilton. The regulatory process is complete and the flow has been reversed for that portion. Line 9b runs the rest of the way to Montreal. The NEB hearings are over and in March of this year approval was granted to reverse the flow. 4. Trans Mountain expansion - Kinder Morgan filed its application with the NEB in December of last year. If it makes it through the application process, construction begins in late 2015 or early 2016, and by 2017 the company should be pumping that extra 600,000 barrels of oil each day. 5. Flanagan South/Seaway Twin - Seaway will be up and running later this month. Flanagan South is built and is scheduled to start pumping sometime later this year.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:15:50 +0000
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