Talk:Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines

Wet'suwet'en First Nation opposition to NGP

I believe this article would be stronger if it included a section called 'Ongoing opposition'. The Wet'suwet'en First Nation has adamantly opposed the pipeline. Dogwood Initiative and ForestEthics have ongoing campaigns against the pipeline. Sources: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/native-group-calls-for-pipeline-boycott/article1433630/ http://oilsandstruth.org/wet%E2%80%99suwet%E2%80%99en-layout-opposition-enbridge-gateway

Jaeleaj (talk) 22:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

While this has improved, the opposition is FAR more serious than that. More than half of all BC residents oppose the pipeline and it has far less than majority support within Canada. Literally all 61 First Nations in the way oppose it, and that includes many that never ceded any land. [1]

Removal of the language the First Nations actually used, claiming WP:RS as justification, is ridiculous. The exact words are a legally binding statement by a valid authority, and if they are under-reported, that is certainly not an excuse for not including them.

Railway Proposal

A newspaper article in the Edmonton Journal a few months ago mentioned that the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways were prepared to begin moving crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast in dedicated trains of tank cars. It would be good to dig up some information on this proposal, and possibly add a section on it to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4-6-0ARM1392 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Keystone XL

The geopolitics of this project relative to Keystone XL should be detailed - delays in Keystone XL are inevitably accompanied by threats to speed up Northern Gateway and sell "our" Canadian oil to China.

TransCanada criticism

TransCanada, who is trying to build Keystone XL, has publicly said that Northern Gateway is far more controversial and divisive and dissed the project in public. This is worth noting as it's a lack of uniform support from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers as a lobby, who never met any dirty oil that they did not like. ;)

"Unnecessary"

Independent reports call the Northern Gateway proposal "unnecessary" [2]. What other analyses of its value are out there?

Competition from Alaska

Alaskan tanker projects compete with Northern Gateway for Asian markets and should also be mentioned [3]

BC citizen opposition

Canada.com is a major media source. Why was it omitted? [4]. It states that 80% of BC residents oppose the tanker traffic that the pipeline necessarily implies. It also refers to the 2010 poll that showed a majority of BC residents opposed also.

Admittedly it has a bad title that grossly misleads the reader, but the raw facts within it, with some interpretation, remain valid.