Energy East Pipeline is Unsafe and Unwanted | Stéphane Brousseau.
TransCanada’s strategy to hoister its Energy East pipeline on the Quebec public has been unmasked, and Quebecers don’t buy the company’s sales pitch.
Quebec citizens, not to mention citizens worldwide, have done their homework and based on the science, the facts and the statistics are keenly aware that the risks inherent in this proposed pipeline, a project endorsed by the federal government, are simply too great, and the required social acceptability for this project is not there, and never will be.
We know that to determine the risk level and viability of a project you can calculate the probability of an accident and the cost of decontamination. This can mean hundreds of billions of dollars in decontamination costs and costs in relation to persistent pollution impacts.
A good indicator in this case is TransCanada’s dismal track record for pipeline oil spills in terms of frequency, quantity and response time.
