Large anti-pipeline protest following Northern Gateway decision
Rally against federal government’s approval of the Enbridge pipeline in Vancouver, June 17, 2014.
Global News, June 17, 2014
VANCOUVER – A large crowd gathered in downtown Vancouver Tuesday night in protest over the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline project. The federal government accepted the independent panel’s recommendation to impose 209 conditions on Northern Gateway proposal and those opposed to the project immediately organized a rally.
The demonstration closed West Georgia at Hamilton Street for about an hour and our Global News cameraman said some demonstrators were blocking cars as well. Traffic and transit in the area is being re-routed while the demonstration is going on.
The protesters also blocked the Cambie Street Bridge as they crossed it, although it was a smaller crowd by that time.
Many people carried signs, chanting ‘No pipelines!’, ‘No tankers!’ and ‘Defend our coast!’
The 1,177-kilometre, $6.5 billion Northern Gateway project would transport 525,000 barrels per day of oil products from outside Edmonton to Kitimat on the northern B.C. coast.
Posted on June 17, 2014, in Oil & Gas and tagged Enbridge, Enbridge decision, Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, Enbridge pipeline. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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Enbridge has told everyone that Northern Gateway project will cost $6.5B while it has known for months that the cost as proposed currently is above $22B. It has been cost cutting & working on different pipeline routes to ports other than Kitimat but larger diameter pipes. It is planning to change the final design of the terminal completely. It will no longer be a land terminal but will be a floating storage terminal in Kitimat area waters or other potentially more cost effective waterways in west coast of BC. It is keeping this information confidential in order to receive government approval. Enbridge is hoping it can go ahead with a totally revised plan using existing conditions & approval processes which were in place for the original lower risk project. Deceiving its customers, the public and the government is normal practice at Enbridge. This is a fact: As the government makes a decision to approve the project, Enbridge plans to change it all together while misleading everyone knowingly for months.