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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>LuLu, I envy you your stamina. I
congratulate you on your constant results.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Absolutely GREN should be part of
this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jan</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=butterflybluelu@rogers.com
href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com">Louisette Lanteigne</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</A> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></DIV>
<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>
<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></DIV>
<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>
<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">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 size=3
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> break: Underestimated risks in the
Environmental Impact Studies. </FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3
face="verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif">Root cause Stantec?
Not </FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">necessarily</FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span size=3 face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">. 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>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3
face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class=Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<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></SPAN></DIV>
<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></SPAN></DIV>
<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
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>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class=Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<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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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"
class=Apple-style-span>Lulu </SPAN></DIV>
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