Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Elizabeth May's Pipeline Warning to You Eastern Canadians.

Her e-mail is self-explanatory.  When it comes to Stephen Harper and bitumen pipelines, you can keep your opinions to yourself.

Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline runs straight through major Canadian cities, including Sarnia, the GTA and Montreal, passing 9.1 million people, and nearly 100 towns and cities.

Installed in the mid-1970s, this aging pipe system is set to be modified. A proposal is in place to reverse the flow of this pipeline and expand its carrying capacity.

But if you are one of the millions of Canadians along its route who wish to communicate legitimate concerns about this project to the National Energy Board (NEB), you will have to apply for permission to do so.

New rules implemented due to the rewriting of federal environmental assessment law in omnibus bill C-38 last spring mean Canadians are required to submit a 10 page application, including a resume and references within a two week deadline, just to ask permission from the NEB to submit a letter of comment on pipeline proposals.

Permission will only be granted to those deemed “directly affected” by the NEB, which has restricted public comment even further by adding its own deadlines.

Welcome to HarperLand.   Do what you're told and shut the hell up!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really wish Ms.May had ended her post with your closing comment. What would it hurt her to ramp up her game a little?

Anonymous said...

I really wish Ms.May had ended her post with your closing comment. What would it hurt her to ramp up her game a little?

Anonymous said...

I really wish Ms.May had ended her post with your closing comment. What would it hurt her to ramp up her game a little?

Anonymous said...

I really wish Ms.May had ended her post with your closing comment. What would it hurt her to ramp up her game a little?

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the repeats. Yr validation system kept telling me to retry.


The Mound of Sound said...

No problem, Anon. I wish I could convey every one of your thoughts to the Greens.

Anonymous said...

In this country, you can convey all the thoughts you like. Thoughts are all that, are permitted in Canada. Everything else is muzzled.

Canada and the House of Commons is a, one man Dictatorship show. How dare, Mulcair, Trudeau and May express their opinions? That is never permitted, in a Dictatorship. Harper's own caucus, found that out.

Anyong said...

Of everything that has taken place in this country since Mr. Harper's rein, this is the worst. This has invoked my anger like nothing else has. This is nothing but a message to the adult Canadian public to shut up and put up. How dare you Mr. Harper turn this country into a dictatorship.

The Mound of Sound said...

How dare he? Because no one who has the power to stand up to him, the members of the Conservative caucus, will stand up for Canada and our democracy. Even if they personally don't like Harper's authoritarian abuses they nonetheless support him.

No tyrant ever stands alone.

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