Former Deputy Environment Minister challenges Enbridge's risk prediction.
from the Vancouver Observer
"Enbridge is understating the risk of a Keystone pipeline spill by quite a bit, according to Dr Tom Gunton, director of Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management and former Deputy Minister of Environment.
"The Canadian government has not carried out its own risk assessment of the Northern Gateway pipeline project, instead relying on Enbridge itself to paint the picture of the oil-spill risk.
"While Enbridge said that the risk of a spill stood at 18 percent, Gunton asserts that the real number is between 93 percent and 99 percent, and that's using Enbridge's own data. …"
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