What we don’t know The things we don’t know about dilbit are worrisome given that TransCanada wants to have the product flowing through our watersheds and into the Bay of Fundy by 2020. An unpublished, federally-commissioned review of the environmental impacts of bitumen on water listed 10 areas where knowledge is lacking: Toxicology: Research on […]
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TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline would significantly increase Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. Primarily an export project, it would facilitate a 40 per cent expansion of the oil sands in western Canada, increasing national greenhouse gas emissions by 32 million tonnes — more emissions currently generated by all four of the Atlantic provinces combined. Canada’s oil sands are the
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TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project would ship 1.1 million barrels of oil every day, including tar sands crude, from Alberta to export terminals in Eastern Canada, including in Saint John, New Brunswick. It would be the largest oil pipeline in North America. See here for detailed maps of the proposed pipeline route in New Brunswick.
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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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This summer our lakes are making headlines; not for their cool, clear nature but because they are getting sick. Blue-green algae blooms have flared up on Washademoak Lake, Harvey Lake and portions of Grand Lake — three lakes known for their swimming and boating. Except, the Department of Health is advising New Brunswickers that recreating
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FREDERICTON — Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Ombudsman of New Brunswick’s report on the Department of Environment’s management of the Water Classification Program. The report provided evidence showing the department and successive government ministers intentionally failed to enforce the program for more than a decade. The Water Classification Program was introduced in 2002
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