No public risk from oil spill, says pipeline company, but critics say danger is clear

“We conducted our own assessment of Trans Mountain using leading science and Tsleil-Waututh’s Indigenous law that concluded that oil spills are inevitable, can’t be fully cleaned up, and have devastating effects,” Tsleil-Waututh Nation chief Leah George-Wilson said Sunday in a statement.

Tsleil-Waututh Nation, based in B.C., opposes the pipeline based on concerns including the impact of increased ship traffic on endangered killer whales.“It just brings a little bit more concern to the issues that Coldwater [Indian Band] has with this pipeline,” Coldwater Indian Band chief Lee Spahan said Monday in an interview.The Coldwater Indian Band, based in south central B.C.

Ottawa initially approved the Trans Mountain expansion in 2016. In August, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed that approval, citing insufficient consultation with Indigenous groups and a flawed approval process that didn’t weigh the potential impact of increased shipping traffic on endangered killer whales.After another round of consultations, the federal government reapproved the project in June, 2019.

That triggered another round of legal challenges, some of which were dismissed. In February, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled the second round of consultations had addressed shortcomings from the first round. Four Indigenous groups – Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Squamish Nation, Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribes and the Coldwater Indian Band – in April said they are seeking leave to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

look because health officials ruined the country we need the revenue ,build the pipeline. enough of this crap, maybe natives should start paying there fair taxes

Oddly, Exxon Valdez destroyed habitat around its spill for decades and Liberals have no issue with sending tankers from Vancouver to NB via Panama Canal. Trains derailments have spilled more oil into aquifers than pipelines have, yet Liberals MSM still say pipelines are evil. FML

The critics are ill-informed. pipelinesaresafe

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Trans Mountain oil spill released roughly 150,000 litres of oil, company saysThe operator of the Trans Mountain Pipeline estimates that between 940 and 1,195 barrels of oil were spilled at Sumas Pump Station in Abbotsford, B.C., early Saturday morning. That's not good DarleneDarbear What does the owner have to say? Yes this is terrible, nobody wants this happening to our environment ! You know what was even worse !?.....July 6 of 2013 in Quebec 😢
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