POINTE-FORTUNE – A grassroots organization has come out to oppose the National Energy Board’s decision to allow Enbridge to reverse oil flow in its 9B pipeline.
Residents living on the Quebec border to Ontario fear adequate testing of the decades-old pipeline wasn’t sufficient.
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They argued the water pressure test conducted wasn’t high enough to guarantee the pipelines’ strength and not enough tests were done.
The residents complained the only testing done was in the Mirabel region and none were done near the Ottawa River, where they fear a rupture could occur and contaminate the water.
Enbridge has plans to carry oil from Sarnia, Ont. to the refineries in Montreal’s east end.
Eventually, the pipeline company wants to carry crude oil from the oil sands of Alberta to Montreal.
In the past, activists expressed public outrage against the arrival of tar sands oil in Quebec.
The oil will by transported by the Enbridge pipeline 9B, which activists said will ship up to 300,000 barrels of crude oil to the province from Alberta every day.
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Company officials insisted high-end jobs would be created.
Thursday, the National Energy Board ruled in favour of Enbridge’s request to reverse oil flow in its pipelines.
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Residents are considering an appeal to the Federal Court of Canada.
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