The editorial in the Aug. 8 Observer talks about the “risk” assumed by British Columbia if the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is constructed.
Given the hundreds of pipeline spills in North America in the past few decades, and given the dismal record and recent events surrounding Enbridge, there is no risk at all of a pipeline spill, only an absolute certainty.
Enbridge crows about their 99.999 per cent success rate in transporting liquids, but their enormous volume means that the other .001 per cent is, in reality, millions of gallons spilled, with the potential to contaminate billions of gallons of water in the process.
Enbridge is all about profits and nothing else. And the miniscule fines they receive for adding to the pollution of the planet are in no way an incentive to change their ways.
Trust them to do what’s good for British Columbia?
I think not.
Rick Shea