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Hamilton 350 Committee 22 Wilson St. # 4 Hamilton, ON L8R 1G7 hamilton350.org January 29, 2013 Municipality of Lambton Shores 7883 Amtelecom Parkway Forest, ON N0N 1J0 All Pain No Gain! To the Mayor and all members of council, We are writing about the increased risks that will soon be affecting your municipality and its residents without compensation or consideration for the environment, water quality, and prosperity of your municipality. It is an issue that is already being addressed by many Southern Ontario municipalities including Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga and Burlington. In early December Enbridge Inc placed a formal application with the National Energy Board (NEB) to reverse the flow of their pipeline from Sarnia to Montreal (Line 9) to allow the pumping of Tar Sands bitumen to the United States and other foreign markets. As a group, 350 Hamilton, our main concern is climate change and that the rapid, unchecked expansion and exploitation of the Tar Sands will significantly increase carbon dioxide in our atmosphere leading to accelerated climate change. Enbridge’s application to reverse the flow and pump diluted bitumen (dilbit) also has many other implications to all affected municipalities and residents. Toxic dilbit from the Tar Sands will be pumped across all major watersheds feeding Lake Ontario, including those located in your municipality. Your Municipality will assume all of the environmental risks and receive no economic gain. Please consider this: TAR SANDS ñ Tar Sands are the world's dirtiest energy project ñ Tar Sands oil extraction emits 3 times as much Greenhouse Gases as conventional oil LINE 9 PIPELINE ñ Line 9 is 38 years old, built in 1976, the same age as the pipeline that caused the spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan ñ No independent integrity analysis of the state of the pipeline has taken place ñ The application would see the flow of the pipeline reversed; increased pipeline pressure and increased volume flowing through the pipeline (300,000 barrels per day, up from 240,000) ñ Dilutants contain serious toxins including benzene, n-hexane, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Are your Emergency Responders properly equipped and trained to deal with a 1
spill of this nature? ENBRIDGE ñ Enbridge lists 610 spills from 1999 to 2006, spilling 132,000 barrels of hydrocarbons ñ Enbridge holds the record for the largest and costliest pipeline spill in the history of the United States: Kalamazoo MI, July 2010 where more than 800,000 gallons were spilled, forcing the permanent relocation of 150 families, and polluting 60 km of the Kalamazoo River ñ It took Enbridge over 17 hours to turn off the leaking pipeline in Kalamazoo, MI ECONOMY ñ Continued erosion of manufacturing jobs in Ontario and Québec is strongly related to a higher Canadian dollar, which is bolstered in part by oil exports ñ The Line 9 reversal project will not bring new jobs; instead most upgrading and refining jobs will be exported along with the dilbit as Canada has severely limited capacity to process dilbit east of Sarnia Ontario For the reasons above we encourage you to follow the example of other municipalities by doing the following: 1. Request a full Environmental Assessment from both the Federal and Provincial Governments; 2. Seek intervener status in the NEB hearings on the Line 9 reversal project; 3. Seek increased taxation measures on pipeline properties and right of ways in your municipalities to create a fund for emergency response equipment and training in the event of a spill; and 4. Demand independent integrity testing and the public release of the results. Should we sacrifice our fresh water, our farm land, our climate, our future, to transport bitumen to the United States and abroad? Are these risks ones your municipality are willing to take? We urge your municipality to take action on this issue, do the actions listed above to protect our watersheds, our climate and mitigate the risk of a bitumen spill. Sincerest regards, Elysia Petrone, on behalf of the Hamilton 350 Committee 2
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