The National Energy Board approved Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline project Thursday.
“[This] decision shows the system is broken. Line 9 puts millions of people and every waterway in Ontario leading into Lake Ontario at risk,” said Sabrina Bowman, a climate campaigner with Environmental Defence Canada.
Enbridge’s proposal to reverse Line 9 to flow from Sarnia, Ontario to Montreal, Quebec, increase its capacity by 20% and ship oilsands bitumen through the pipeline was approved by the Board (NEB) earlier today, but with thirty conditions. Bowman said the conditions do not protect people living along Line 9 from a spill. Line 9 (Read more…)