Hopefully Enbridge's oil spill in Michigan will be taken as a red alert by the citizens of Prince George and others along the proposed Enbridge pipeline route.
We cannot afford to jeopardize our precious environment. If the local residents don't act as stewards of our part of the province, nobody else will. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that we have moose in the forests, fish in the rivers and healthy citizens for future generations.
Why are we in such a rush to sell our resources to China? The oil can stay in the ground until we find safer technology to extract the bitumen, or preferably, develop alternative sources of energy. We should be investing in wind, solar and geothermal rather than insisting on persisting with dirty oil economies.
The proposed Enbridge pipeline should be snuffed out now before the inevitable pipeline rupture will pollute our rivers with dirty oil. The pipeline would also allow expansion of the tarsands development, which is an embarrassment to Canadians who care about our carbon footprint.
It would also be a threat to our pristine Pacific coast when oil tankers start carrying this dirty oil from our shores to China, which has even less environmental protection than we do.
Let's give a resounding no to Enbridge - not in our backyard.
Hilary Crowley
Summit Lake
