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Awesome analysis and interventions.... great work Louisette.! I
believe GREN should be onto this also. Norah <br>
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On 27/05/2012 9:40 PM, Jan Liggett wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">LuLu, I envy you your stamina. I
congratulate you on your constant results.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Absolutely GREN should be part of
this.</font></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 24,
2012 8:44 PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [All] Line 9:
Amazing developments</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi folks</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Today's hearing makes me more and more
convinced, that miracles are possible. </div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I arrived in London and saw the headline in
the London Free Press that reads: THE BIG LEAK. Half a
million southwestern Ontario residents are without water due
to the Region's largest water pipe breaking. Stantec used
the data they did for THIS pipeline and simply doubled it to
get their price estimates for our Region's Lake Erie pipe
proposal.</div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3">As I sat at the NEB hearing, I had a
Eureka moment. When a water main brakes, you don't hear
people complaining that it was the Region's fault and yet
when an oil pipeline breaks, they plaster the name of
Enbridge all over the place. The fact of the matter is,
the spills Enbridge has been experiencing are not based on
corrosion issues, they are based on the same reason as
this </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif">water main</font><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"> break: Underestimated risks in the
Environmental Impact Studies. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana,
helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3">Root cause Stantec? Not </font><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">necessarily</font><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3">. The guidelines for what is
considered a reasonable test have not been designed. Folks
will usually do the minimum of whatever it takes to get
the job, to get something approved, done rather than to do
the job right. So how do we secure the best strategy for
risk prevention? Easy. Hold environmental engineering
firms liable. </font></div>
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sans-serif" size="3"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">I told the NEB chairs, oil distribution
agencies like Enbridge pay other firms to do their
environmental impact studies. In good faith they build
their pipes thinking that the work is done right. Enbridge
assumes the liability risk of that data they purchased to
justify their pipeline. When pipes break and the reason is
linked to poor quality data of the EIS report, the blame
should be on the firm who conducted the study, not
Enbridge. Oil distribution firms should keep a check worth
the entire value of the services these Engineering firms
provide. If the pipes break due to the negligence of a
poor EIS report: Cash it. That money incentive will assure
the job gets done right. It will also serve to prevent
destruction for profit scenarios.</font><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span"> </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">When it came down to the final argument, the
Enbridge rep clairified, the existing line has not been in
use for over a year but the industry wants to open it up
to move light crude to refineries in Montreal but they
also stated, "</font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif" class="Apple-style-span">If we
can't move this oil safely, were not going to move it."
Enbridge is open to further discussion on the matter with
the public. </span></div>
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class="Apple-style-span"><br>
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span">At that point, the NEB chairs
stated, they will now take their first Undertaking:
Enbridge must figure out how to involve parties in this
process and how to inform citizens of emergency plan
development and include them in the process. </span></div>
<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span"><br>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span"><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">After that the hearing was adjourned. </font></span><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" class="Apple-style-span">I
had a whole bunch of folks come up to offer handshakes and
thanks from the staff of Enbridge, all the oil company
reps as well as the staff of Ecojustice, Equiterre and
Environmental Defence. People really liked the idea. NEB
liasion officer said that the policy was a direct result
of my presentation and said that in 12 weeks we'll hear
from Enbridge on how they are willing to proceed with the
undertaking. </span></div>
<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">As I left I thought about Forest Ethics and
how they created ground breaking protection
for Carolinian Forests by creating sustainable harvesting
programs directly with the forestry sector. Things get
done much faster with industry partnerships to create
better standards than they do via political processes.
Enbridge is willing to work with us to figure out how to
avert risks. This could be groundbreaking stuff. They need
to figure out what to do with the existing pipe that's
already on top of our moraine. It was installed in 1976.
Should it stay or should it be removed? Is there any way
they could modify things to make it safer? What are
reasonable test times and methods should they use to build
pipes safer? What sort of monitoring should they do? </font><span
class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Their job is
distribution. They move product from point A to B. They
want to know how to keep things safer because the last
thing their company wants is another leaky pipeline. If
we can help them design things safer or to explain why
they should opt out of dealing with Line 9 all together,
now is the time to structure those arguments. </font></span><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif">The Line 9 project report info is all online
here: </font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rthnb/pplctnsbfrthnb/nbrdgln9phs1/nbrdgln9phs1-eng.html">http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rthnb/pplctnsbfrthnb/nbrdgln9phs1/nbrdgln9phs1-eng.html</a></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span">This is a most unusual </span><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class="Apple-style-span">opportunity to foster</span><span
class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> greater public
debate during an NEB hearing. I didn't know that could
be done but sure enough, it's happening. I would really
like GREN to be a part of this. Any contribution we can
make to give recommendations to prevent spills or
prevent risks could become a new industry standard. What
say GREN?</font></span></div>
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class="Apple-style-span">Lulu </span></div>
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