Pipeline project should be stopped, NDP leader says

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Pipeline project should be stopped, NDP leader says


By Judith Lavoie, Victoria Times Colonist July 11, 2012 1:37 PM

VICTORIA — A damning report on Enbridge Inc.'s inept handling of the 2010 crude oil spill in Michigan should kill the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said Tuesday in Victoria.

"Northern Gateway should be stopped and the plug should be pulled on it," said Mulcair, who was in the B.C. capital to meet with local community groups and business leaders and attend a fundraising event.

"Today's (Tuesday's) conclusive report by the Americans, I think, should be the final nail in that coffin."

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Enbridge mismanaged the Michigan spill.

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In keeping with the conservative principle of government's mandate to protect, regulation should require frequent exercise in emergency shutdown with a focus to decrease response time. Enbridge continued to pump oil 17 hours into a pipeline that was known to be leaking. Truly dismal.

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NDP's Thomas Mulclair uses B.C. trip to attack Enbridge pipeline project

Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore says the Quebec MP "doesn't understand British Columbia's priorities"

By PETER O'NEIL, Vancouver Sun July 11, 2012 4:24 PM

New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair, in B.C. this week to build on his party's momentum on the West Coast, said Wednesday that Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline project should be shut down in light of a devastating report by a U.S. agency released a day earlier.

But Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore shot back that the Quebec MP, whose party now leads the Tories in recent polls on the West Coast, "doesn't understand British Columbia's priorities."

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Enbridge officials behaved like the "Keystone Kops" during the bungled management of a massive oilsands crude spill in Michigan in 2010.

Mulcair linked the findings to Enbridge's $5.5-billion proposal, now being reviewed by a federal panel, to build two 1,177-kilometre pipelines from the Edmonton area to the B.C. coast.

"Northern Gateway should be stopped and the plug should be pulled on it," Mulcair told reporters in Victoria.

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