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The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for permission to reverse the flow in its Line 9 pipeline and to use it to carry tar sands crude to Montreal. Equiterre senior director Steven Guilbeault will: explain the risks propose alternatives to tar sands oil A great way to find out what you can do! Brought to you by Equiterre in...
The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for permission to reverse the flow in its Line 9 pipeline and to use it to carry tar sands crude to Montreal. Equiterre senior director Steven Guilbeault will explain the risks of such a project and propose alternatives to tar sands oil.  Find out what you can do! Brought to you by Equiterre in...
If the National Energy Board okays the reversal of the section of the Line 9 pipeline between North Westover, Ontario and Montreal, then tar sands oil could soon flow through the following regions of Quebec: Montérégie, the lower Laurentians, Lanaudière, Laval, Montreal and the Eastern Townships.  To help you assess the risk to your community, we have joined forces with...
Actualité - 7 March 2013 - Tag : Sharing expertise, Tar sands
Montreal, February 21, 2013 – The National Energy Board (NEB) will be holding a public information session this evening at the Royal Versailles Hotel in Montreal regarding Enbridge’s proposed reversal of its 9B pipeline, which runs between North Westover, Ontario, and Montreal. Équiterre is asking residents of Montreal and the surrounding area to attend the session...
Communiqué - 21 February 2013 - Tag : Enbridge, Line 9, Tar sands
The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for permission to reverse the flow in its Line 9 pipeline and to use it to carry tar sands crude to Montreal. The NEB invites citizens to participate in the process. Find out how at this meeting, where Equiterre cofounder and deputy director Steven Guilbeault will talk about alternatives to tar sands oil....
Even if it doesn't spill, it will already have been an environmental disaster.
Actualité - 4 February 2013 - Tag : Advocacy, Public talks, Sharing expertise, Steven Guilbeault, Tar sands
Enbridge's former Trailbreaker project would have reversed the flow in existing pipelines to ship crude from the tar sands to Portland, Maine by way of Ontario and Quebec. Has this controversial project been revived? The National Energy Board (NEB) has already approved a reversal for an Ontario portion of the project, and is currently considering whether to extend the reversal...
On November 29, Canada's mega-oil pipeline company, Enbridge, officially asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for permission to reverse the flow, increase the capacity, and transport heavy crude in the section of its Line 9 pipeline that extends from North Westover, Ontario to Montreal. This would open the door to bringing heavy crude from Alberta's tar sands to New England...
Actualité - 10 December 2012 - Tag : Advocacy, Enbridge, National Energy Board (NEB), Tar sands
Please alert us to any upcoming meetings involving Enbridge, the Calgary-based pipeline transport company seeking to bring tar sands crude through Quebec.
Actualité - 24 October 2012 - Tag : Advocacy, Enbridge, Tar sands
Recent statements by the Governor of the Bank of Canada and by Thomas Mulcair, the Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, reveal a profound economic and political divide on the issue of accelerated development of the oil sands industry. Is this fast growing sector good for Canada or a blight on the manufacturing economies of Ontario and Quebec? 
Événement - 16 October 2012 - Tag : Advocacy, François Barrière, Martin Coiteux, Public Lectures, Tar sands
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