APTN National News
In this final part of APTN’s interview with the president of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines says the impact of the pipeline wouldn’t be significant.
The interview aired on APTN Tuesday night. In the first part of the interview Monday John Carruthers said 26 First Nations have signed on to support the pipeline.
When pressed for the names he said it’s not a secret who the First Nations are but Carruthers still wouldn’t say who they are.
“The community will have to make that determination…whether or not they want to make that public,” said Carruthers.
What a terrible man and a terrible company. He is a smooth-talking snake, as when he is asked about the right that First Nations have to put a stop on this terrible project, and he says “did we mitigate their concerns.” At every step of this interview, he tried to use words like ‘partner’ and ‘neighbour,’ and he uses most of his time to take a tone of: “if only people knew the amount of good we can do, then we would have 100% acceptance from those wayward people who keep getting in our way.” It is interesting that the first and only benefit he mentions for native peoples is money (although he uses an array of synonyms to get around having to be that blunt). This is where the ideological clash simply cannot be reconciled: when you have two sides, and one that sees money as the one and only benefit, and another side that sees value and importance of so many things other than money, then you get this kind of talking head situation because he can’t even answer the interviewer’s questions on basic, human terms. Here’s hoping his preposterous project is permanently halted in its tricks.
By pipe or by rail just get it done.
Enbridge has lied about this before. They have used every dirty tactic in the book, to get their dirty pipeline into BC. Enbridge even had the gall, to post a map of the channel, without the numerous islands. Those behemoth Chinese tankers, have to do hairpin turns to get around them. It takes three miles, to stop one of those massive tankers.
I will believe this, when and if the F.N. People announce this is so. Everyone I know, is standing firmly with F.N. in their fight against Enbridge and the dirty oil tankers.
Harper and Gordon Campbell, have done enough dirt to BC’s eco-systems. Not one iota of a concern, for F.N. food sources.
Many of us, also supported Chief Spence. There was a lovely thank you letter of appreciation, to Chief Spence on a BC web site.
The incredible trek of those F.N. young people, was absolutely fantastic. The devotion of the F.N. to each other, is very heart warming to me. I think it’s wonderful.
I e-mailed Harper and, gave him my opinion of him. Not even a, well done to those courageous young F.N. Peoples trek. I told Harper, he was a little wee small man, compared to those kids.
This interview is a joke ….He is letting money control his morals ,How can this man sleep at night .
“The impact’s of a pipeline are not significant”
Even if there would be no major Kalamazoo river sized spill, thirty years of steady minor leeching of bitumen into the environment is absolutely unavoidable by any oil pipeline would be enough to kill off absolutely every salmon spawning river and creek and the pipeline would cross.
Harper’s omnibus legislation included massive environmental regulatory changes as well as changes to Navigable waters protection that absolutely effects first nations all over Canada and done with zero consultation.
British Columbia does not need to addict itself to the non renewable boom and bust cycle of energy exports.
i still want to know how they can mitigate a spill in the Rockies? in douglas channel during a violent storm? enbridge has not satisfactorily cleaned up the mess in Kalamazoo Mich. where the access is easy..
all the gunk moved per spill incident (prior segments of the program) he says is very low thus allowing for a good safety record.. one spill, just ONE could devastate the Province’s spawning rivers..
when it comes to BC, life styles, and existing industries there is no room for error…
you, me and a whole bunch of concerned voting citizens are wondering anf worried about the same thing
300 million over 30 years = 10 million per year spread out among many Bands/peoples equals eff all in the bigger picture..
Yes It isn’t very much at all….
When I performed the rough calculations a few years back..at ~42,000 First Nations individuals …it was not enough to buy even a cup of coffee everyday.
84 cents a day was the amount I recall. Each.
Even if they tripled the amount…it would not be enough to buy a donut….
If you do the math, on a per barrel basis, whizzing by in the pipeline, it was some tiny fraction of a penny in “value” takeaway from the $60-70+ the industry gets per barrel of crude oil.