<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi everyone</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Just sent this to the PM, Federal ministers, MP's and MPP's of Waterloo Region and Regional Council. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Alarming disclosures made by Enbridge regarding Line 9. Please review.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Lulu</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">____________________________________________</div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"> </div> <br><div id="yiv12997401"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv12997401"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif;"><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_39" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Ministers and Council Members</div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_39" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_39"><font size="3">Enbridge revealed alarming information regarding the reversal of Line 9 oil pipeline at a recent meeting in Halton. Here are </font>excerpts taken from the following article as published by Inside Halton on February 13, 2013. </div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_39"><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_80" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span
id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_79" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody"><br></span></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_85" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_79" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody">There has been a number of leaks in the
pipeline and one rupture event,” said Trevor Grams, Enbridge’s director
of infrastructure integrity. “The rupture event was June 14, 1978. The
last leak on that line was Nov. 3, 2005.”</span></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_93" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_79" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody"></span>“The closest emergency response crew for Burlington is in Flamborough
out of our facility in Westover,” Pruegger said. “…How much time would
it take? We’re responding immediately, so it would all depend on the
leak — where it’s at, time of day, weather and all conditions. We’re
about 20 minutes to half an hour drive time from Westover to where the
pipeline is in north Burlington.” <br><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_111" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody"><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_104">The first Enbridge staff to respond to a
leak in Burlington will likely come from the Westover station in
Flamborough, according to Franz Pruegger, operations supervisor,
Westover region.</div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_106"><br id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_110"></div></span><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_120" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody">Barry Callele, director, pipeline control
systems and leak detection, said a leak of two per cent of the pipeline
would release approximately 14,000 litres in five minutes. The capacity
of the line is 300,000 barrels per day.</span></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_125" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_140" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">“You mentioned navigable waters had
shutoff valves on either side, what about non-navigable waters?” asked
audience member Margaret Small. “There’s the escarpment, Lake Ontario —
a lot of us are very concerned about the water sources around here.”</div>
<div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_130" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Shutoff valves are not on non-navigable waters, Hall said. He
explained the pipeline wall’s width of a quarter of an inch increases to
half an inch when it goes under various bodies of water.</div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_135" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;"><br id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_139"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_136"><span id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_171" class="yiv12997401td-EndPageBody"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Amy Schnurr, executive director of BurlingtonGreen, asked about the scope of the study that was submitted.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">“Would the assessment be for the entire right-of-way?” she said.</div>
<div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_143" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Jeannette Gasser, Enbridge’s team lead of environmental major
projects, said the environmental assessment is based on terminals and
stations along the way. It is not based on the pipeline itself since
there is no work being done to it, she said. <br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_166" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;"><br id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_170"></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167">To view the entire article please visit here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1580749--enbridge-officials-grilled-about-pipeline-plan" style="background-color:transparent;">http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1580749--enbridge-officials-grilled-about-pipeline-plan</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"
id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_54"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_54">Please note bill C-45 has REMOVED the Grand River's upper reaches from the Navigable Water's Act. It is reasonable to assume that there may be no shutoff valve where the pipe crosses the Grand or Nith Rivers currently. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_54"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_54">During the National Energy Board hearing for Enbridge Line 9, they failed to provide a
reasonable answer regarding how much the
pipe was insured for. They also admit they only monitor pipes through the Grand once ever 5 years. To view the correspondence I received from Enbridge regarding these Waterloo Regional Concerns visit here: </div><div style="background-color:transparent;" id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_167" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_54"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/enbridgeresponse">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/enbridgeresponse</a><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_175" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_180"></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_177" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like the Region to make a motion
to reject the pipeline until the
overwhelming ecological and economical risks are reasonably addressed. Currently the river monitoring is insufficient particularly with flood drought sceneries and it poses significant issues for communities using the river for drinking water. To find out what the proper format is for the Region's response I suggest staff contact Michael Benson, the National Energy Board process advisor at 403-299-1992 or by email at michael.benson@neb.one.gc.ca </div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_177" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_56"><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_177" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"
class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_56">To
view additional information regarding localized risks of Enbridge Line 9 for Waterloo Region's economy, please visit the slide share presentation I presented to the National Energy Board during phase 1, here: <br id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_199"></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_196" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/lanteigne-line9hearing">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/lanteigne-line9hearing</a><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_196" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887926884_57"><br></div><div id="yiv12997401yui_3_7_2_14_1360887394281_196" style="color:
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