But we would like to have the same kind of spirit within different communities across the country, to stand up,” says Simon. “While refined product supply may be sourced from outside the province of Quebec, these supply sources would not provide the jobs, the spending nor provide the petrochemical feedstock that a Quebec refining operation does,” notes the submission by Suncor, which was “not available” for an interview. Simon holds up the cheque — it’s from TransCanada, which wants to construct a 4,500-kilometre pipeline to move crude from Alberta and Saskatchewan to east Canadian refineries. “I’ve been here ever since,” he says. “The Crown cannot insulate itself from its duty to consult Aboriginal peoples by devolving decision making authority to non-Crown actors or by remaining indifferent to decisions that may affect Aboriginal rights and interests,” lawyer Scott Smith told a three-member panel from the National Energy Board. The First Nation also, in Miskokomon’s affidavit filed to the board, claimed part of revenues generated by transporting product through traditional lands on a go-forward basis. “I’m not willing to say that’s an economic development opportunity. She bought shares in IPL, which became Enbridge in 1998, to get through the door at shareholders’ meetings — a chance to get the ear of the company CEO, and, on more than one occasion, give him an earful. The next afternoon, Purvis took their big, shaggy dog, Logan, for a walk out to the back of the property. that runs perpendicular to it. The Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) maintains the National Pipeline Mapping System, which provides broad-level maps on a county-wide basis in all states, depicting both Hazardous Liquid (crude oil and refined products) and Gas pipelines. Emergency spill response times of between 1.5 and 4 hours in the GTA; emergency plans that lacked site-specific protocols for potentially catastrophic spill locations like the Finch subway (Enbridge has since agreed to create these plans); drinking water; property values. “But I want answers and I want the truth and I want them to stand up and do what they say they’re going to do, not sneaking around behind our backs.”. forced a work stop at an Enbridge construction site. “We were younger and naïve,” said Purvis. STAFF REPORTER. The site of the continent’s first oil craze is now a nostalgic place, where oil is drawn in roughly the same quantities as 150 years ago, using many of the same methods; where pump jacks and the jerker lines that pull them creak gently on a pastoral landscape and the family patriarch stands atop a snowy hill behind his home looking over it all with the revering eyes of a farmer for his fields. It’s home now to a solar farm, a bio-innovation centre; there’s a biofuel plant under construction. But a plan to reverse and increase the flow of oil in Line 9 has thrust the 30-inch pipeline into the spotlight, sparking fears of catastrophe, and promises of prosperity, Thousands of lives intersect, often unknowingly, with the, ‘You don’t want a leak on your property’, Pipeline journey map - TORONTO STAR GRAPHIC, Dimitri Tsingakis, general manager, Industrial Association of, Dimitri Tsingakis. It would mean a labour income increase of $350 million and an employment increase of 5,500 person years, mostly in Ontario and Quebec, according to the company’s application. As a kid, she had asthma. Line 9 crosses the Ottawa River about 20 kilometres upstream from Kanesatake and does an arc around the First Nation’s territory on its way to Mirabel, Que. In its submission to the National Energy Board, Suncor wrote that its market in Quebec and Eastern Canada is the country’s “most competitive.”. “Sure enough, they were back there,” says Purvis. Marcus Terminals Inc., a crude oil storage and transfer company, purchases oil directly from producers and trucks it to Sarnia’s Imperial Oil refinery. Fairbank, like his father before him, didn’t intend to go into the oil business. There are an estimated 4,000 jobs affected by the Line 9 project. Enbridge and other pipeline companies say the infrastructure can be used safety “in perpetuity” with proper maintenance but Conger has her doubts. Reid is chair and CEO of TDT Crews Inc., a Hamilton-based company that supplies crews of skilled Canadian workers to regions that need them. When Allan Marr and Dana Purvis bought their farm, 60 hectares of rolling fields and forest near Lansdowne, Ont., 15 years ago, they didn’t put much thought into the two pipelines that cut through the back third of the property. MONTREAL, Que. “But I think that’s a little far down the road,” he says. She’s blocked roads leading to industrial facilities. (She won, and was taken out to dinner for her efforts). But, as Conger explains, it flows through a particularly unique, and sensitive, environment. “Even if we don’t get the work here ourselves, I’d still strongly support the project.”. And, as Bradley points out, there’s a truth that’s uncomfortable to some: Canadians use the products made here in this place every day. And, they argued, the proposed project increases the likelihood of such a disaster. She knew when you heard a siren to go inside right away. “It’s a beautiful thing, it’s like reading classical literature. JESSICA MCDIARMID

more flammable than traditional crude, U.S. regulators warned, currently the subject of a court challenge. Farmers aren’t allowed to cross them with “heavy equipment” without permission.

This is the story of a pipeline and the people whose lives it passes. ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE / TORONTO STAR, Joe Miskokomon, Chief, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Joe Miskokomon. “They’re scared when they see her there,” Dave chuckles. JESSICA MCDIARMID / TORONTO STAR, Serge Otsi Simon, Grand Chief, Mohawk Council of Kanesatake, Serge Otsi Simon. The soil here is shallow, a skiff on top of bedrock. There are about 120 companies or individuals with well licenses in the province now.

“All of a sudden, things became very personal.”. According to Enbridge, all reported leaks and contamination from these incidents have been "fully repaired and remediated." Public hearings held in Toronto and Montreal concluded in October 2013. She learned that Line 9 passes near Seneca College in Toronto, where she attended school for three years. Lockridge, 51, flips through a calendar. Ferguson used Google maps satellite view to follow the pipeline right of way, which appears as a strip of cleared ground from above. To others, it’s a ticking time bomb that threatens all they hold dear — for themselves, and for generations to come. The minimum accuracy of the pipeline information on the viewer is +-500 ft. For higher precision in locating pipelines, more information, and contact details for the NPMS, visit the NPMS FAQs. The region is the most extensive north-south wildlife corridor east of Lake Superior. The episodes have also prompted them to look more closely at what would happen if there was a spill on their land. There was talk of moving it back from the river. 9$[3���s�A;���]^7���*�\Js�Q�)Q).��^ƋF~��c�(/�jC�ZB�!�X;�>����;(�ã3��C� *ce'c�WFI�-�v��~����UW�{(N�l���}L�%R�`�8MUu�H�̽�R��Kug8��z&FQY�Y�V['�����~eG��jcC#��u鈦�+��|�����Դ�th�l4.�w��yZ��*�����!�eM�y�WzM��KI���QƐHu���>-�y�(�;�|S�^*�э��U�l���2�#&��у�h/����x�E|�����J0py��G �Tּ�0�}�ڗ;�K>���)&����TW�l��y?a0��{��~��5g�#ڒ���h�ԭP���]����+�pc. The money’s exciting, he says. Fifty metres beyond it, Line 9 is under the Gananoque River. The Ontario Petroleum Institute, which represents oil and natural gas producers, supports the Line 9 project, arguing it would boost the oil and natural gas industry, worth about $4 billion a year to the Ontario economy. ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE / TORONTO STAR, Hugh Moran, executive director, Ontario Petroleum Institute, Hugh Moran. Conger heard about Enbridge’s application through a notice in the newspaper last spring.

For those decades of low prices, the business couldn’t afford upgrades. Calls and emails will be responded to promptly. The Star followed Line 9 from Montreal to its birthplace in Sarnia, meeting with people living and working alongside it. “That’s part of why I decided to get involved.”. Pipeline companies insist the process is safe, while critics fear diluted bitumen, sometimes called “dilbit,” is especially corrosive and more difficult to clean up. Imagine, says Eriksen, if that was oil. 2013 is going to be your year,’” recalls Ferguson. The map below shows points where oil spills and other incidents have occured along the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline. JESSICA MCDIARMID / TORONTO STAR, Margaret Vance. Driving along Gypsie Flats Rd.

“We’ve seen what the consequences could be for standing up for certain issues and we don’t wish that to be repeated. And then there is the plaque along Vidal St. S., erected for the village of Blue Water.

That’s not the case anymore. Bradley is a member of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, a group of more than 100 mayors from both Canada and the U.S., that’s urged federal regulators to demand Enbridge meet a host of conditions prior to the project’s approval, such as creating a liability fund to cover spill costs and devising detailed, site-specific emergency plans. Its high peaked roof is falling in on the rafters below; its walls are flecked and sagging with age; the Thames River is eating its way toward the northernmost foundations. The carbon black in the tires came from Cabot. The plastics more than likely came from one of the plastic manufacturers here,” says Bradley. They pooled resources, rustled up support from fellow farmers to hire a lawyer and intervened, as the Ontario Pipeline Landowners Association, in National Energy Board hearings. — The stonewalled house stands alone in the vast, flat fields. AAMJIWNAANG FIRST NATION — Vanessa Gray grew up smack in the middle of Sarnia’s industrial heartland. The Aamjiwnaang First Nation, where she lives, is wedged into the area commonly called Chemical Valley, some 60 refineries and chemical plants within 25 kilometres of the community of about 1,000. It’s exactly why that line was devised that way.”, But, he insists, it has to meet the “highest possible standards.”. Two decades later, Margaret has travelled the country meeting with landowners in other provinces. “We use too much of it. The UNESCO-designated Frontenac Arch Biosphere is here, home to 34 at-risk species. “The only economic benefit that we might see is if there is a break in the line and we need to go clean it up,” says Simon. One day, his sons will own or manage the oilfield. — A lone barn is all that remains of the sprawling residential school that ran for nearly a century on the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. In 2013, the Chippewas of the Thames constructed its entire submission to federal regulators on Enbridge’s proposal around issues of aboriginal rights. A railroad overpass is all that separates the quaint, modest homes of Sarnia’s downtown from a sea of belching smokestacks, intricate webs of pipes and tanks the size of apartment buildings. — If they had known, they never would have done it. Eriksen wasn’t impressed with company responses to her questions, some of which referred to her requests as “fishing expeditions.” Enbridge characterized information requests from municipal and provincial governments similarly in some cases. They complained to Enbridge, which dealt with it. Dave Vance, 74, was born here, in the large airy room off the kitchen. But that was before Enbridge’s application to transport crude oil from Alberta’s oilsands and North Dakota’s Bakken region. When provincial police were called in to disperse the standoff, the situation turned violent. “Suncor Montreal refinery cannot afford to be left behind as its competitors secure access to the most competitive supplies of oil expected to be available for the foreseeable future.”. “They make hundreds of billions of dollars from the use of this land,” says Margaret. A study on birth rates between 1999 and 2003 found twice as many girls as boys born on Aamjiwnaang.


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