Published on YouTube Aug 10, 2016
It
was a stunning public relation blunder by the NEB. On the very first
day of the Energy East review process, instead of welcoming and
accepting comments and concerns from a 1000+ fishermen association in
Nova Scotia, the three NEB Board members took only two (2) minutes
before deciding to strike down their remarks from the hearing record.
At a Press Conference earlier in the morning, Colin Sproul outlined the reasons why their fishermen feel a tar sands bitumen spill in the Bay of Fundy would devastate their $2 Billion industry. "The fastest tides in the world mean the fastest spreading oil in the world, with no means to mitigate it our stop it in a quick fashion."
YOUTUBE OF PRESS CONFERENCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqUT...
MEDIA RELEASE FOR PRESS CONFERENCE: http://canadians.org/media/risk-energ... (Council of Canadians, 2016. "Risk of Energy East to Water and Atlantic Coast Too Great Groups Tell NEB on First Day of Hearings in Saint John". August 8.)
SUMMARY OF CONCERNS FROM BAY OF FUNDY INSHORE FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION:
The Bay of Fundy is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world; a bitumen spill in the Bay of Fundy could end their multi-billion dollar fishery industry which significantly contributes to the food security of Canada; further industrialization with tanker traffic will increase uncompensated fishing gear loss and threaten the critically-endangered North Atlantic Right Whale; the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy is an unsafe place to navigate Post-Panamex supertankers; question how a bitumen spill could ever be cleaned up from the seafloor or the surface of the sea of the Bay of Fundy; surface oil spills in the Bay of Fundy would spread faster than almost anywhere else in the world and enter it's critically important estuaries in a very short period of time; flow through a single tide cycle is greater than all of the river systems in the world combined and this would carry any spill with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy
At a Press Conference earlier in the morning, Colin Sproul outlined the reasons why their fishermen feel a tar sands bitumen spill in the Bay of Fundy would devastate their $2 Billion industry. "The fastest tides in the world mean the fastest spreading oil in the world, with no means to mitigate it our stop it in a quick fashion."
YOUTUBE OF PRESS CONFERENCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqUT...
MEDIA RELEASE FOR PRESS CONFERENCE: http://canadians.org/media/risk-energ... (Council of Canadians, 2016. "Risk of Energy East to Water and Atlantic Coast Too Great Groups Tell NEB on First Day of Hearings in Saint John". August 8.)
SUMMARY OF CONCERNS FROM BAY OF FUNDY INSHORE FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION:
The Bay of Fundy is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world; a bitumen spill in the Bay of Fundy could end their multi-billion dollar fishery industry which significantly contributes to the food security of Canada; further industrialization with tanker traffic will increase uncompensated fishing gear loss and threaten the critically-endangered North Atlantic Right Whale; the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy is an unsafe place to navigate Post-Panamex supertankers; question how a bitumen spill could ever be cleaned up from the seafloor or the surface of the sea of the Bay of Fundy; surface oil spills in the Bay of Fundy would spread faster than almost anywhere else in the world and enter it's critically important estuaries in a very short period of time; flow through a single tide cycle is greater than all of the river systems in the world combined and this would carry any spill with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy
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| Alma, New Brunswick at high and low tide |
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| Alma, New Brunswick at high and low tide |
Speak Up if you love this country, land, this is our home....Speak up and Act because it will soon be too late...
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