Drinking water for more than 60 per cent of Manitoba’s population will be put at risk by TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline, according to a report released Monday by the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition.
“The entire length of the Winnipeg aqueduct is in danger of contamination from the nearby pipeline,” the report states. “Contamination could occur from large spills anywhere along the pipeline and from small, more frequent, undetected spills between Falcon Lake and Hadashville where the aqueduct and pipeline are very close.”
Retired biophysicist and author of the report, Dennis LeNeveu, announced his findings in Winnipeg, (Read more…)