By MATTHEW EVANGELISTA On Nov. 30 an aboriginal community took their fight to the Supreme Court of Canada saying The National Energy Board does not have the right to decide how First Nations land is used. For 40 years the Canadian government has used The National Energy Board (NEB) to get around opening discussion with First Nations on the topic of what the government can do on their land concerning … Continued
BY Nicole Clark Between 1962 and 2015 there have been 25 pipeline-related incidents in Canada alone. According to the CBC, the five most prevalent oil spills in recent history happened in 2011, 2012 and 2014. This year, the Husky Energy oil pipeline spilled between 200,000 and 250,000 litres of oil into the North Saskatchewan River. Those in charge of the Husky Energy pipeline and its cleanup said they took care … Continued
BY TYLER BATTEN Line 9, a controversial Enbridge pipeline reversal, was approved by the National Energy Board of Canada (NEB) on March 6, upsetting many people in the process. The 38-year-old pipeline will carry diluted bitumen 830 kilometres from Sarnia to Montreal and will cross every tributary that drains into Lake Ontario. If it ruptured, the impact of a large-scale oil spill in southern Ontario would be devastating, and nearly … Continued
