Letter of Comment. Contact information and written comments will be placed on the public registry for this project.

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1 (403) , or toll free at Name: Jones, Steven L East 12th Ave. Vancouver British Columbia (604) V5N2A3 The nature of my interest is that I'm Concerned Citizen. An 9.? earthquake on BC's coast was talked about in the 1970's. Certainly this is worst case scenario and the resulting wave would endanger the entire coast. The last thing people will be thinking about is a spill from oil pipeline or leaks from sunken or damaged ships. This could be left untended for days maybe weeks. This is playing Russian roulette. The coast would be lost forever. And it's not if

2 it's when. Source Wikipedia Using data from Enbridge's own reports, the Polaris Institute calculated that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999 and These spills released approximately 168,645 barrels (26,812.4 m3) of hydrocarbons into the environment.[8] What if this was your backyard? Source Wikipedia The tar sands hold proven reserves of 1.75 trillion barrels of bitumen in place. About 10% of this, or 173 billion barrels is estimated by the government of Alberta to be recoverable at current prices, using current technology. The world currently uses 85 million barrels a day or 31 billion barrels of oil a year. The world will use up the equivalent of the economically viable tar sand reserves in 5 ½ years. According to a study of the largest 811 oilfields conducted in early 2008 by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), the average rate of field decline is 4.5% per year. Simply put Peak oil is the new normal. So for a few years worth oil we will jeopardize the planet with the global warming, acidic oceans etc. Time to develop hydrogen or another alternative

3 (403) , or toll free at Name: Mielniczuk, Milosz 327 Evergreen Way Earth and Environmental Science Student Vernon BC (250) V1H2B8 To the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel: We Canadians are blessed by many pristine lakes, forests, creeks and rivers that represent Canada s green image worldwide. This proposed pipeline does not only destroy the green image figuratively, it poses a very real environmental threat to these pristine areas. The economic benefit will not be enough to outweigh the enormous risk to the environment. The people whose backyard this project will be in will see little or no benefit of any kind. The pipeline represents a step backwards from the direction in which we as a society should be heading. Some short and long term jobs will be created, but it is still not justification for this project. I believe this project and others like it, that support the fossil fuel industry should be stopped. We need to be moving away from these dangerous projects and to

4 a green future. Milosz

5 (403) , or toll free at Name: Yatscoff, Edward ave author Beaumont AB (780) T4X1E8 The nature of my interest is to get through these hearings as quick as possible and get the people testifying to MAKE THEIR POINT and move on. 4,000 witnesses weren't even called for mass-murderer Robert Pickton. You Sheila Leggett sure appear to be purposely delaying these hearings because you are in the limelight at last after being in a cubicle for your entire career. The PM should give you and your panel a good kick in the ass. Speed it up! You are running a clown show.

6 (403) , or toll free at Name: Deitcher, Rachel Dr. Carolyn Dunn, Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel Manager, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Dear Ms. Dunn, I am writing to vigorously oppose the Northern Gateway pipelines which would transport Alberta's tar sands through British Columbia's world class temperate rainforest and coastal ecosystems. The project will industrially develop and destroy water, land and ocean ecosystems across a vast

7 swath of our country's intact ecosystems. The pipelines would significantly ecologically impact temperate rainforests, coastal waters and slews of inland waterways. The vital First Nations salmon economy will be devastated. I am pleased to see reports that the project has been delayed, now it needs to be ended. The project's ecological unsustainability is made worse by the fact it would be carrying filthy tar sands synthetic oil - derived from the clearcut mining of old growth boreal forests. Tar sands production is ecocide. The extraction and refining of tar sands oil requires massive deforestation, tremendous amounts of fresh water, and leaves behind toxic and cancer-causing chemicals. Its transport threatens half a continent's wetland ecosystems, waterways and aquifers. Enbridge has a history of pipeline problems, leaks, and regulatory violations including a recent major spill into the Yellowstone river. The pipeline would skirt the northern edge of the Great Bear temperate rainforest - threatening the home of the revered all-white spirit bear. There will be severe ecological impacts of the pipeline construction including erosion, forest fragmentation, water pollution, riparian habitat damage, and near certain leaks. While operational a serious pipeline break could occur at any time - destroying any one of the approximately 1,000 pristine streams, rivers, lakes, and natural wild salmon spawning grounds to be crossed. First Nations' rights and way of life - including a wild salmon economy - are being violated; and their and other rural communities would be at risk from a pipeline or oil tanker spill. Some one thousand-five hundred massive supertankers will carry tar sands oil to Asia annually, passing through the narrow and treacherous, yet fragile and pristine, northwest coast passageways. One mishap will bring disastrous results and long-term loss of marine life and sensitive coastal ecosystems. Canada has a special responsibility to fully protect intact ecosystems and end their industrial development. And to stop obstructing international climate change talks, as we have with abandoning Kyoto. The scale and type of ecocidal tar sands development is not acceptable to First Nations or to concerned global citizenry. I demand that the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel reject the project and not provide necessary environmental approvals for the project to progress or commence. The world has better energy choices than dirty tar sands oil - including efficiency and conservation, and the development of critical renewable and energy-saving technologies and policies. The world us waiting for Canada to start behaving justly in regards to climate. With grave concern, Dr. Rachel Deitcher lendeit@gmail.com