Council of Canadians

Members of the Council of Canadians were in North Bay yesterday (Monday) to launch their new report titled; When Oil Meets Water: How the Energy East Pipeline Threatens North Bay Watersheds.

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson and she says one of the findings in the report says TransCanada is unable to detect oil spills of up to 2.6-million litres per day.

Barlow says overall this Energy East Pipeline project needs to be stopped.

She says “when you have the politicians saying one thing and the people saying another, we can win. We’ll just stop it that’s all.”

Mark Calzavara is the Ontario Regional Organizer with the Council of Canadians, and he says they found these pipelines are not as safe as advertised.

Calzavara added, the report finds Energy East would have a 15 per cent chance of a full bore rupture every year and a spill in the Trout Lake watershed could cost more than $1 billion-dollars.

There will be a town hall tonight (Tuesday) at St. Andrew’s United Church to discuss why the group says Energy East is all risk and little reward for North Bay.

It takes place at 7pm.