B.C. Tribes Blocked A Pipeline, So They Got More Rail Shipments Of Oil – Science 2.0
February 19, 2015
Northern British Columbia’s First Nation leaders repeatedly rejected the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines from Alberta and so oil companies are shipping more oil by rail, which requires no new approval, and is inherently more environmentally risky than the pipeline they said was too risky.
If you are more familiar with U.S. scientization of politics, it is like the Obama administration ignoring Yucca mountain science reports so that nuclear waste can remain in over 100 different locations of suspect quality: A win for environmental activists who wanted to flex their muscles but a loss for everyone else.
Yet in BC, they didn’t stop anything, so now they say they will consider an ‘alternative’ pipeline – they can’t admit they were just extorting when it came to the old one – and that they just want to be ‘heard’. But they were heard, the government and Enbridge did talk with them for nearly a decade, and they listened when the various native groups said they did not want a new pipeline. So instead of a pipeline B.C. now has a 1.1 million barrel per day capacity that is maxed out and that Canadian Pacific Railway will need to augment – which is far worse for the environment they claim to care about. Not to mention that in 2013, there were also 110 train derailments in B.C., which is why a safer pipeline was proposed in the mid-2000s.
