FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 New Report Shows TransCanada’s Proposed Energy East Pipeline Project A Major Risk for the Communities of the Bay of Fundy-Gulf of Maine FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick today released a report on the risks to the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, one of […]
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released a report on the potential impacts of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project on the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine. The report explores the many risks to whales and other wildlife in the Bay of Fundy as well as the risk to sustainable jobs in New Brunswick, Nova
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As well as exploring the risks TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline poses to existing jobs in New Brunswick and our natural environment, it’s important to examine the regulatory system under which the project is being assessed. Pipeline proposals that cross provincial boundaries, such as the Energy East Pipeline project, go before the National Energy Board (NEB), the federal
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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 An unpublished, federally-commissioned review of the environmental impacts of bitumen on water listed 10 areas where knowledge is lacking: Toxicology: Research on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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