Post #3539476
2026-07-02 18:03 UTC
“It’s pretty hard to prove that a bitumen pipeline is going to break or leak because of the incredible safety record that Canada has had in the last 50 years." [1]
said a pro-pipeline Chief; compare that claim to
Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tsb-report-edson-pipeline-rupture-9.6934226
Pipeline leak located more than a week after sheen first reported on Ontario river https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/03/23/pipeline-leak-located-more-than-a-week-after-sheen-first-reported-on-ontario-river/
Trans Mountain Pipeline spill in Abbotsford estimated at up to 190,000 litres of crude oil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trans-mountain-pipeline-spill-abbotsford-150000-190000-litres-1.5611973
and many, many others (see https://apps2.cer-rec.gc.ca/pipeline-incidents/ or https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7dffedc4-23fa-440c-a36d-adf5a6cc09f1
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[1] https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/imminent-alberta-pipeline-proposal-submission-has-b-c-environmentalists-first-nations-readying-for-battle/
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@pinhman@humanwords.party 2026-07-02 18:13
@datum@zeroes.ca At all of the west coast ports considered their passageways all have depths shallower (controlling depth) than the draft (how deep a ship floats) of tankers. To argue that the shipping poses no risk is meaningless political noise https://ppa.gc.ca/standard/pilotage/2018-09/BC%20Berth%20Controlling%20Depths%20and%20Safe%20Operating%20Parameters_eng.pdf