[All] Fw: Line 9: Cease and Desist requested.

Sun Aug 23 09:51:57 EDT 2015

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  From: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com>
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 Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:50 AM
 Subject: Line 9: Cease and Desist requested.

To his Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnson, Honourable Ministers et al. 
Graham White of Enbridge Pipelines notified me that Enbridge Pipeline Inc. has transferred assets including Line 9 to Enbridge Income Fund as per this correspondence sent to me by email. 
From: Graham White 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:56 PM
To: 'Louisette Lanteigne'
Subject: RE: Line 9 inquiry Hello, Louisette, I hope you are well. We have been conducting internal financial restructuring of assets in the past year or so, that will have no impact on our liability, levels of insurance, operations or continuing commitment to the safety and integrity of our operations. They are primarily for greater and easier access to, and ability to raise capital, for future major projects and increase dividends to shareholders. We have transferred many of the Liquids assets, including Line 9, to the Enbridge Income Fund. For more information here are our releases on this topic. Most recent: http://www.enbridge.com/MediaCentre/News.aspx?yearTab=en2015&id=1934274And most explanatory: http://www.enbridge.com/MediaCentre/News.aspx?yearTab=en2014&id=1902458There are no plans for merging with any external firms, this is an internal process to Enbridge owned and operated companies.Regards,Graham WhiteEnbridge Pipelines
In response I called Alberta Securities Exchange legal council, Rajeeve Thakur who confirmed to me by phone, that Enbridge Pipeline Inc. is indeed a company according to the NEB Act section 2 definition of the word. “company” includes   
   - (a) a person having authority under a Special Act to construct or operate a pipeline, and
   - (b) a body corporate incorporated or continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act and not discontinued under that Act;

I contacted the NEB directly and found there was no attempt to request permission from the Board transfer the ownership or assets from Enbridge Pipeline Inc. to Enbridge Income Fund and I have documentation by both the NEB and Mr. Graham White of Enbridge to prove this.  This act may be a violation of section 74 of the NEB Act which states:
Limitations on purchase and sale, etc.

   - 74. (1) A company shall not, without the leave of the Board,      
      - (a) sell, transfer or lease to any person its pipeline, in whole or in part;
      - (b) purchase or lease any pipeline from any person;
      - (c) enter into an agreement for amalgamation with any other company; or
      - (d) abandon the operation of a pipeline.

   - Definition of “pipeline” and “company"
   -    

 Here is a news story regarding the concerns: 
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/08/20/news/controversial-pipeline-changing-hands

On June 18, the NEB order secured only a partial test of Line 9 for hydrostatic testing with tests to be done on two sections of pipe near Mirabel Quebec which took place last week. There was a public protest regarding the flawed engineering protocols of the actual testing. Details here: 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/enbridge-line-9b-pipeline-reversal-testing-not-good-enough-residents-say-1.3200506

The test level was to run at 100% SMYS (Specified Minimum Yeild Strength) but on July 22, 2015 Enbridge submitted a test plan to the NEB which reduced it to 93% SMYS and on July 24 the NEB modified its order to allow Enbridge to test at the lower level. The margin of safety lost a a result of this is unreasonable.  There is a chart in the attachment to illustrate the lost margin of safety as a result of the decrease of testing pressure.  
Technically speaking the levels don’t event comply with Enbridge’s Brochure on Hydrostatic Testing which states: 
Typically hydrostatic test pressures are about 1.25 to 1.5 times higher than the normal maximum operating pressure.
Source: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/724930/hydrostaticpressure-testing.pdf
We must demand better testing in order to reasonably protect the public, our environment and the long term security of Canadian and US water supplies. 
We must also investigate the compliance of this firm in regards to section 74 of the NEB Act and examine what the implications are for municipalities, provinces and federal levels with this transfer of assets. Who actually owns Line 9 right now? 
Until we can resolve these issues I am requesting that the Province of Ontario or Federal Ministries proceed to secure a cease and desist to stop the ongoing hydrostatic testing. 

Thank you kindly for your time. 
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower Ave.Waterloo OntN2V 2L2

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