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March 18th	Pipe Dreams part 2
	The different dimensions

Enbridge pipeline – Condensate -- & ‘Oil’

Map from Enbridge’s web site

A quick look at Enbridge Pipeline from coastal perspective

But the real point of evening is that there are ‘larger issues’ at play here ---from ‘fiduciary responsibility’ to 1^st Nations to Climate Change to sustainability

Presumably complexity means shallow parts and potentially good habitat Living Oceans maps page – excellent – see QC Sound- Hecate with ‘topographical complexity’	Coastal Perspective
	Shades of the Exxon Valdez spill --- emphasis here on what we have to lose on the coast See great series of Exxon Valdez spill 20 years later –see Part 1 of three part series And here is 3^rd of Series w Dr Riki Ott comments

Abundant North Coast – see also	Pristine areas with commercial and subsistence values
	Note the herring spawn areas – In Prince William Sound the Herring have not returned even 20 years later See the 3^rd of Series on 20^th anniversary Exxon Valdez spill for details

But do expect oil spills – it goes with the territory – See the Terrace March 18^th story recounting recent Enbridge spills	Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative
	Don’t expect construction jobs, nor much (tax) revenue to BC; nor any real obligation to even build once the permits given Below a super tanker compared to Empire State blg G&M Tar Sands using Asian gambit as Obama might not let the dirty oil in US so freely

Exxon’s ‘pledge after the AK oil spill ‘we will make you whole again’ – see Part 1 of 3 part series where the opposite turned out to be the case	Dr Riki Ott http://www.rikiott.com/
	‘The Day the water died’ – effects of Exxon Valdez spill on Fishers and the communities --- afterwards Exxon told communities ‘We will make you whole again’ --- the next 20 years were to show the lie of this – thus Dr Ott told audience not to accept Enbridge’s promises – accept only contractual obligations and dispute resolution etc --- more later but

Canadian Encyclopedia – Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and Bio of Thomas Berger his Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland (1977) – ‘settle land claims first’ See the WCEL site where 2 Enbridge fact sheets (same as at meeting)–

West Coast Environmental Law – their comments during question period were transformative

Yes ‘we’ can look at the tankers and the Exxon style risks – or the ecological devastation of the Tar Sands in Alberta and Boreal Forest --- and all those 1^st nations with duty to consult upon whose lands the pipeline must pass ---- but there are really even bigger issues at play here than the ‘technical’ --- and the Berger Enquiry saw that it was not just a pipeline that was at issue – but a social transformation that was being debated More later

BC Hydro in town – I saw 2 trucks at same time doing high wire works	Seen Around town
	Many of down town sidewalks cleared – as were some of the neighbourhoods --- new snow plow???

See my Intro article to Pipeline dream

Created by LG on 18/3/2009

Last updated on Thursday, March 19, 2009