ENBRIDGE AND ITS MAGIC ERASER

My goodness! Enron has a magic eraser that removes thousands of miles of island and their challenging but vulnerable shorelines from the Northern Gateway. Just how stupid do these wretched con-thieves think the people of British Columbia are?

If a tar sands pipeline and supertankers project looks too dangerous, what do you do? If you’re Enbridge, you delete islands off of public safety videos and maps to convince the public the project is safer than it really is.

Right now, oil and gas giant Enbridge is fighting to build a 1,177 km tar sands pipeline from Alberta, to BC’s coast, despite massive public opposition. If the project is approved, up to 500 oil tankers a year laden with toxic heavy crude will have to weave through the 4th most dangerous waterway in the world, making sharp, 90° turns through twisting, rocky passages.

Enbridge knows that as the public is learning about its 800 oil spills in the last decade, they are turning against the company’s plans to run pipeline and tankers through pristine rainforest and coast. So it hired the same PR firm that worked for Big Tobacco and Enron to roll out a multi-million dollar public image makeover.

Its slick website campaign is designed to convince the public that the oil tanker route is safe, but a scientist just discovered that Enbridge deliberately removed 1,000 km² of islands off of a pipeline safety video and map to make the oil tanker route look much less treacherous than it actually is.

Tell Enbridge to stop misleading the public and pull the ads immediately.

http://sumofus.org/campaigns/

Enbridge’s pipelines across North America just keep spilling, and the official report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board found that negligence caused the massive 3 million litre Michigan Kalamazoo spill in 2010. Two years after the worst pipeline spill in US history, the toxic crude is still polluting waterways and making people sick.

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Enbridge’s official application to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline includes maps from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Google Earth, and even the Government of Canada. This proves that Enbridge knows what the treacherous oil tanker route looks like ~ but is grossly misrepresenting how wide the shipping routes would be, and misleading the public about the true dangers of the project.

The slick “route safety video” shows Douglas Channel without the maze of islands that oil tankers as long as the Eiffel Tower will have to weave through. Enbridge knows that spill cleanup would use skimmers and booms that work only in low breezes and a light chop ~ not in treacherous waters with names like Terror Point, Calamity Bay and Grief Point.

Right now, Enbridge is feeling the heat. Right now, Enbridge is feeling the heat. Its pipelines just leaked again – this time in Wisconsin – intensifying fears about its safety track record. 

Oil spills can kill sea otters quickly unless they can be caught and rehabilitated. It costs about $80,000 to rehabilitate one sea otter.

And now, Enbridge’s CEO is admitting that opponents to the pipeline have taken control of the debate, and he’s trying to discredit them by labeling them as “revolutionaries”.

Enbridge is highly vulnerable to public pressure and if enough of us speak out together, we can force Enbridge to pull the ads.

Spread the word, and sign the petition to Enbridge:

http://sumofus.org/campaigns/