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  1. There's four tankers of your sewer dumped in the Salish Sea every day. You seem to think it's surviving. A tanker or two of oil every few years wont hurt it at all. When it was just a Straight nothing seemed to matter. Now that it's a SEA omgz, it's so speeeeecial. The Salish Sea no less. lol
  2. Still zero solar activity. Scary
  3. Where do the first nations fit into this? This is a way to cut them out of the equation. This may result in us seeing a first nations backed plan to produce and ship oil across a northern route.
  4. I shouldn't have called him a passenger, but when watching the WJC I always thought he was the weakest of the three.
  5. Nah. He was a passenger. It was all Tavares and Eberle.
  6. After rereading the article I see the slight of hand comment was referring to the NEB not the court. You are correct in that regard.
  7. My thought was that the court was concerned about sea traffic, not spills. But as far as the court being activist, the tambourine waver I quoted here admits it. He calls the court ruling a "legal slight of hand"....a legal trick. The very definition of an activist court. I don't know the relevance of your bolded. The court said it was right? Of course it did. So that, that is a significant impact. And what the court found was not necessarily that the NEB didn’t look at it, but they didn’t look at it through the right lens. They played, they pulled a little bit of a legal sleight of hand. This is because under our previous government, under Stephen Harper, the environmental laws were gutted in Canada. And at the time that this project came to the National Energy Board, the National Board was actually tasked with doing their own National Energy Board review, regulatory review, but also the Canadian Environmental Assessment Review. And simply put, they were just not equipped to deal with that, and they tried, through their scoping of the review, to avoid dealing with the environmental assessment on marine shipping. Which meant that they were able to say, yeah, it’s true that this is going to have a significant adverse effect on the orcas, but not to do anything about it. And that’s where the court found that error. You know, they could have applied the Environmental Assessment Act, applied the Species at Risk Act. That would have caused, required plans to be made, mitigation to happen, probably changing the project in some way. But by avoiding that, that’s what the court said was an error. 
  8. If we don't accept that sewers are killing the salmon and not bitumen stranded in Alberta, the salmon and southern orcas will be gone a lot sooner than that. The Northern Orcas are thriving and chowing done happily on belugas and pilot whales up north, if that's any consolation.
  9. Maybe. This is what I remember. Those thermal coal ships make a lot of noise and there is a lot more of them. https://therealnews.com/stories/major-legal-victory-canadas-kinder-morgan-pipeline-stoppedv EUGENE KUNG: Sure. So I mean, just to be clear, the expansion project would have resulted in a sevenfold increase in oil tankers going through the Salish Sea through a couple of very tight narrows and challenging terrain. And so what the NEB actually agreed with and found, and Kinder Morgan admitted as much and had in their application, was that just the noise from those tankers alone would have a devastating impact on the southern resident orcas’ ability to hunt and to feed itself. Primarily salmon, sockeye salmon. So that, that is a significant impact. And what the court found was not necessarily that the NEB didn’t look at it, but they didn’t look at it through the right lens. They played, they pulled a little bit of a legal sleight of hand. This is because under our previous government, under Stephen Harper, the environmental laws were gutted in Canada. And at the time that this project came to the National Energy Board, the National Board was actually tasked with doing their own National Energy Board review, regulatory review, but also the Canadian Environmental Assessment Review. And simply put, they were just not equipped to deal with that, and they tried, through their scoping of the review, to avoid dealing with the environmental assessment on marine shipping. Which meant that they were able to say, yeah, it’s true that this is going to have a significant adverse effect on the orcas, but not to do anything about it. And that’s where the court found that error. You know, they could have applied the Environmental Assessment Act, applied the Species at Risk Act. That would have caused, required plans to be made, mitigation to happen, probably changing the project in some way. But by avoiding that, that’s what the court said was an error. And again, all of this because the significant increase in tanker traffic has a huge impact on the whales, regardless of whether there’s a spill. Obviously a spill would be a terrible thing for the whales, but even the sound of the tankers, you know, the collisions, potential collisions and so on, that’s what they found.
  10. The courts only care about the number of ships going in and out and their effect on wildlife (interrupting migrations? ). Spill risk is nothing to the courts. Others have pointed out the reason for this I guess. (iirc)
  11. The courts were worried about the extra ship traffic caused from the pipeline, not spills. What about the extra 1000 ships a year to find a market for US coal? A ridiculous double standard.
  12. I cant believe BC is shipping thermal coal for the US producers yet have the nerve to use the CO2 argument to hold up Trans Mountain. That's incredible hypocrisy. The US ports refuse to ship that coal so BC comes to the rescue. I had no idea it was happening. Unbelievable. Keep the money flowing to the US but stop it flowing into Canada. What's going on. Sick.
  13. It's a sad but true statement. No one will buy the gas link pipeline from Trans Canada so Trudeau would have to do it. I'm sure it would be a good deal for Canada if the pipeline gets built, like Trans Mountain will be, but it is kind of like extorting assets away from private enterprise. Eventually you end up like Venezuela, the latest example.
  14. Now Trans Canada Pipelines wants to bale out of the pipeline to the LNG plant. They put it up for sale today. Time for JT to step up. No one else can trust investing in Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/transcanada-hires-rbc-sell-stake-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-1.4997248
  15. Bad timing for this comment. We just had mount Polley in BC to top it off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/brazil-dam-collapse-news-latest-mining-disaster-brumadinho Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing Chance of finding survivors ‘minimal’ after tailings dam at iron ore mine bursts
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