{"id":202,"date":"2015-12-09T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/?p=202"},"modified":"2015-12-14T04:55:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:55:28","slug":"plusieurs-groupes-de-la-societe-civile-et-des-premieres-nations-demandent-larret-de-la-ligne-9-denbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/2015\/12\/09\/plusieurs-groupes-de-la-societe-civile-et-des-premieres-nations-demandent-larret-de-la-ligne-9-denbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Community groups and First Nations demand shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter<\/a> to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Enbridge Inc\u2019s Line 9 Reversal project. The letter demands new NEB hearings on the pipeline project. Enbridge recently confirmed through media reports that Bakken Shale oil from the west is now flowing through Line 9 to refineries in Montreal.<\/p>\n

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The civil society groups call on Justin Trudeau and the government to honour their election promise to revamp the mandate of the NEB to include both the upstream and downstream effects of tar sands production on both existing and new pipeline projects. Line 9 is a repurposed 40 year-old pipeline never designed to carry fracked, potentially explosive Bakken Shale oil or heavy and corrosive tar sands diluted bitumen. Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline safety expert, predicts that there is a 90% likelihood Line 9 will have a major oil spill within the first five years of operation.<\/p>\n

The authors of the statement letter insist \u201cThe approval of the Line 9B pipeline and the current \u2018Leave to Open\u2019 status, were decisions imposed on residents of Canada, including Indigenous people, by a non-elected regulator composed of biased corporate actors prioritizing industry goals and objectives. The present government has advised that \u201cit is important that [the federal government] acknowledge mistakes when we make them,\u201d and it is our strongly-held conviction that the prior government\u2019s support for the NEB structure and review process has resulted in an erroneous decision that threatens communities, water sources, local ecosystems, and the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The endorsing organizations from across the region call on the federal government to halt the operation of Enbridge\u2019s Line 9 pipeline until a proper assessment can be carried out to ensure that:<\/p>\n