Bitumen

Pipelines, Tankers and Tar Sands

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Tar sands oil pumped via the Keystone XL Pipeline will increase greenhouse gas emissions.

by Ben West

Last week, I sat in my office in the Gastown district of Vancouver and learned that the most powerful government in the world is putting my community on notice. From my window, I watched a large crude oil tanker cruise through Burrard Inlet, as an email arrived quoting the US State Department about these very oil exports in our city. 

The email came from an ally in the historic civil disobedience action outside the US White House in Washington, DC. Over 1,200 people were arrested for

Northern Gateway Pipelines, Comox, March 30

Submitted by delores on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 14:05

Amazing, knowledgeable passionate oral testimony this afternoon at the Joint Panel Review hearings in Comox. Speakers receiving standing ovations from the crowd. One speaker  was almost cut all because he was discussing the "social turmoil" which would happen if the pipeline tried to go ahead, a sentiment endorsed by other speakers.

Bitumen - Alberta Tarsands' Friend

Morgan KinderThe unsatisfactory track record of Enbridge and the high acidity concentrations of DilBit raise environmental concerns.

by Miranda Holmes

A dark stranger is heading British Columbia's way. We're told prosperity for all will follow. But what do we really know about this character? Watershed Sentinel decided to investigate. This is what the stranger told us:

Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs

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The issue of pipeline safety is clouded enough with a slew of "captive regulators, from Alberta to the United States, but the situation gets even more sticky because the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, and others from the tar sands, will be transporting "dilbit" which carries its own problems with it.

by Joyce Nelson

This article is a preview of the story to be published in the March-April Watershed Sentinel.

Enbridge Spills

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Morgan KinderA Decade of Enbridge Oil Pipeline Spills

by Joyce Nelson, part of a feature Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs coming in the March-April Watershed Sentinel

2000: 7,513 barrels. Enbridge reported 48 pipeline spills and leaks, including a spill of 1,500 barrels at Innes, Sask.

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"This is it. It's done!" was the message in Alaska in 2008, 19 years after the Exxon Valdes oil spill.  Dave Janka, who runs Auklet Charters in Prince William Sound, ran his boat over to Smith Island to snap this photo.  Dave says, "It's far from done!"

W.L.M. (Bill) Wilson writes: 'Attached is my rewrite of Anne Feeney’s “Have You Been To Jail for Justice”. Anne granted permission to do non-profit performances of this Enbridge version.' Video by Ester Strijbos.