The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project proposes to build two parallel pipelines 1,170 kilometres from Alberta’s Tar Sands to B.C’s coast at Kitimat. If approved, the pipelines will travel through the salmon-bearing Upper Fraser and Skeena watersheds and will open our northern coastal waters to oil supertanker traffic.
The Risks:
Northern Gateway pipelines
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by Mark Hume
Vancouver — From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Saturday, Oct. 03, 2009 03:29AM EDT
Questions are being raised about the safety of a proposed shipping channel for oil and gas supertankers on British Columbia's central coast after a freighter struck rocks near Kitimat.
The Petersfield, a 41,000 deadweight ton bulk carrier loaded with soda ash and lumber products, sustained severe damage to its bow during the mishap in Douglas Channel last Friday night.
