Enbridge Pipeline: The Oil Spill in the Sky

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Terrific article in the Vancouver Observer (on?) this Thursday about the oil-spill-in- the-sky that is the real damage from the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the tar sands to China or the USA. Barry Saxifrage writes:

"One way or the other, every gallon of tar sands crude oil that Enbridge wants to pump down its proposed B.C. pipeline will be spilled into our environment. All of it. Every drop.

"Any crude that Enbridge doesn't first spill into our B.C. lakes, rivers, streams, Great Bear Rainforest and wild coastline, will instead become a gigantic burnt oil spill dumped into our destabilizing atmosphere and acidifying oceans.

"This spill will be so large that it will wipe out all efforts by all Canadians to cut climate pollution....." Read it all for yourself