Pipelines

There is a brave and long struggle going on in Wet’suwet’en territory in northern BC where First Nations are stopping pipeline workers from proceeding with the Pacific Trails Pipeline. Here is the website: http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/

"From the beautiful unceded Unis’tot’en Yintah (Territory):

The hundreds of thousands of British Columbians who oppose Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline, its dilbit, and the associated oil tanker traffic, from First Nations to fishermen to the NDP opposition to environmental organizations like the

A quick look at maps of Northern Gateway Pipelines and Pacific Trail Pipelines can be confusing – west of Prince George to Kitimat they look like they are on the same route, might even be the same pipeline. It isn't so - they are quite different pipelines, and mostly on quite different routes.

Watershed Sentinel has put together a couple of annotated maps to clear up the confusion: they are not on the same right-of-way, though for perhaps 120 kilometres on the western third of the 462 length of Pacific Trail and the same segments of Northern Gateway, the three pipelines will be within shouting distance.

by Peggy Zimmerman, August 10 2012

Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you as someone who has been in your position of assessing the environmental viability of major resource projects.

I worked for over 10 years for a highly reputable international engineering, economics and environmental consulting firm.