The pipeline is proposed to cross 282.5 kilometres of private land in New Brunswick. In the case of a pipeline development, private landowners have very few protections and little ability to deter a company from their property. Local experience has shown that, even in the early stages of land surveying, we hear stories of landowners […]
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TransCanada has already had large spills, explosions, and other disasters with its pipelines. In February 2014, the CBC reported on instances where the company had been severely reprimanded by the federal regulator for “inadequate” field inspections and “ineffective” management. An audit of TransCanada which began in November 2012 found the energy giant was non-compliant in four of nine
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When dealing with pipelines, spills caused by ruptures or leaks in the line are inevitable. A study released by the Fraser Institute in August 2015 found that 1,226 spill incidents occurred on regulated pipelines in Canada between 2003-2013. More concerning, the rate of pipeline ruptures, leaks or spills in Canada has tripled in the last decade. Thirteen
TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline project poses significant risks to the unique marine environment of the Bay of Fundy-Gulf of Maine, putting existing jobs in fisheries and tourism at risk, and threatening the habitat of marine mammals and seabirds, including the recovery of the North Atlantic right whale, the most endangered large whale in the world.
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The current route for TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline will cross waterways in New Brunswick 281 times. While all of these waterways are ecologically important to the larger watersheds and valued by many people, some of these crossings are at our most notable waterways, including the Madawaska, Tobique, Canaan, Kennebecasis – all major tributaries of the St. John
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Welcome to the online edition of Eco Alert, New Brunswick’s Environmental Magazine. EcoAlert is the Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s quarterly membership magazine. It brings you environmental news, exciting stories, and important action alerts from across our province. We share stories of the work we’re doing in our program areas – including Forest Conservation, Freshwater Protection, Climate
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RELEVANT KNOWLDEGE or EXPERTISE TABLE 4 – Issue 7: The potential environmental and socio-economic effects of the proposed project. In the summers I work as a naturalist for a wildlife/whale-watching company based out of Granville Island, in Vancouver. Increased shipping activities will affect the whales in the area (especially the southern resident killer whales, which
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DIRECTLY AFFECTED TABLE 3 – Issue 1: The need for the Project. This request for Intervenor status in the NEB hearings on the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion is being made because it will have a direct impact on my life in at least three different ways. I would like to address Topic #1″Is there a need
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DIRECTLY AFFECTED TABLE 2 – Issue 8: The potential environmental and socio-economic effects of increased marine shipping. Vancouver is my home. My parents grew up here, I grew up here, and I continue to choose to make it my home. It is part of who I am. Who I am, and why I continue to
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DIRECTLY AFFECTED TABLE 1 – Issue 7: The potential environmental and socio-economic effects of the proposed project. and/or Issue 12: Potential impacts of the Project on directly affected landowners and their land use. Kinder Morgan has proposed to Langley counsel a new route for their pipeline that would run along the side of the Redwoods
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