Mulcair and Dix denounce Northern Gateway pipeline

There are more questions today after the release of a report into a 2010 oil spill in Michigan.

A spill from an Enbridge pipeline into the Kalamazoo River dumped more than 3 million litres of oil.

A new report released yesterday in the U.S. says Enbridge failed to respond quickly enough to report and clean up the spill.

Now critics want assurances nothing similar could happen along the Northern Gateway pipeline route.

Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was in Vancouver today along with BC NDP leader Adrian Dix to denounce the pipeline.

Mulcair says the project doesn’t offer a lot of benefits to Canadians.

“Northern Gateway is not a good project, it doesn’t matter what the review says,” he says.

“When look at past disasters on the coast, it’s inconceivable that this would go ahead.”

Dix says the provincial government is not protecting B.C.’s interests in negotiations.

“What I find absolutely inexplicable is the government’s failure to provide evidence,” he says.

Mulcair says he will work with the provincial government to do whatever they can to stop the pipeline.