by Forest Ethics | Tuesday Nov 27, 2012:
Given the opportunity to shed light on its proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project at the NEB’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) hearings currently taking place in Prince George, Enbridge lawyer Laura Estep chose instead to focus on ForestEthics Advocacy’s use of the media, campaigning and previous questions directed to Enbridge.

“This is an emotionally charged project. Living in Smithers, people are definitely in fear of losing our healthy salmon watersheds,” ForestEthics Advocacy senior energy campaigner Nikki Skuce told the panel and a full house at the hearings.

A must-watch video on the ongoing fight against Enbridge’s cursed pipeline. The following New Democrat MPs visit Terrace, Kitimat and Kitamaat, British Columbia, and discuss the energy giant’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline: Deputy Leader and Environment critic, Megan Leslie (Halifax); House Leader, Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley); Public Safety & LGBTT critic, Randall Garrison (Esquimalt–Juan de Fuca); Western Economic Diversification Canada & Deputy Fisheries critic, Fin Donnelly (New Westminster—Coquitlam); and Alex Atamanenko (BC Southern Interior).

RELATED: Wanted: “Radicals” Against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline

*This is not an Enbridge animation from Shortt and Epic Productions on Vimeo.

Last week, Enbridge Inc. insulted Canadians again with an animated propaganda video that omitted the natural resources the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will destroy. The video omitted thousands of kilometres of islands and other natural features along British Columbia’s Douglas Channel, including the scenic coast of Kitimat and Burns Lake.

The video above, called “This is not an Enbridge animation”, responds to the Calgary-based energy giant’s false and misleading video. It spotlights some of the at-risk locations omitted.

RELATED: Wanted: “Radicals” Against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline

The producers of the video, Shott and Epic Productions, remind us that animation “is not the appropriate medium for capturing what is at risk with this pipeline. Let’s get real about what’s at risk.”

Can’t wait to get involved in the ongoing fight against Enbridge? I recommend the Dogwood Initiative. Also, Lori Waters, a Vancouver Island resident has filed a formal complaint with the federal Competition Bureau against Enbridge for the misleading promotional video.

And you can watch the deceptive Enbridge video here.

Finally, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has taken a public position on the Northern Gateway pipeline!

Enbridge, the company behind the condemned pipeline through her province “has some pretty important questions to answer” following revelations of its inept handling of a July 2010 spill in Michigan. The spill dumped more than 3-million litres of crude oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River and adjoining wetlands.

Clark’s words:

“I think the company should be deeply embarrassed about what unfolded. If they think they’re going to operate like that in British Columbia – forget it. That kind of spill that happened in Michigan is not acceptable in British Columbia.”

What took Clark so long? The provincial NDP is strongly against the pipeline. Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair just made his position clear: the report is the “final nail in the coffin” for the Northern Gateway Pipeline. He wants it killed.

Still, the Premier has put Enbridge on notice. That’s a good thing. That’s leadership.

Executive and company have strong and lucrative ties with the Canadian military and Harper government.

By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, July 5. 22, 2012:

Opponents of the Conservative government‘s crime Bill C-10 were justified to argue that private companies would profiteer from the new jail system the legislation proposed for Canada. On Tuesday, the Canadian Press reported that a Toronto-based construction company, Bird Construction Inc., has been awarded the contract to build the $38.5-million North East Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Nova Scotia. The 200-bed facility is due to open in 2014.

Turns out there’s a connection between the company and Enbridge Inc.: a man named J. Richard Bird, who also has a strong connection with the federal government. The 62-year old Harvard Business School and University of Toronto graduate served as a member of the Minister of Finance’s Advisory Committee on Financing from 2009 to early 2010.

Are you a Canadian radical? Are you ready to #StopHarper and Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline? If your answer to both questions is YES, this call to action from radicals4ourcoast.ca is yours to answer:

“Does fighting to keep our Pacific coast oil-spill-free make you a “radical”? That’s what Stephen Harper’s Conservatives say.

They want to help Enbridge Inc. build a pipeline from the oilsands to BC’s pristine north coast—to ship raw bitumen overseas in giant supertankers.

Even a modest spill in these northern waters would contaminate this coast for decades—wreaking havoc on fisheries, tourism and First Nations communities.

The so-called Northern Gateway pipeline imposes unacceptable risks—yet the Conservatives still say only “radicals” oppose it.

So, can we count you in?”

Sign on against the Enbridge pipeline HERE