Enbridge alternative: Rail to Valdez Alaska? So says Barbara Yaffe

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Read this article by the Vancouver Sun’s chief Enbridge apologist, Barbara Yaffe – now touting a rail route connecting the Alberta Tar Sands to Valdez, Alaska as a more palatable alternative to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.

“This plan has a huge and unmistakable advantage: Aboriginal chiefs like
it. And the company is confident environmentalists and the broader B.C.
public will like it too. Under the scheme, oilsands product would be
unloaded from rail cars at Delta Junction in Alaska, then fed into an
existing pipeline that snakes southward to Valdez.” (August 16, 2011)

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About Damien Gillis

Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon - working with many environmental organizations in BC and around the world. He is the co-founder, along with Rafe Mair, of The Common Sense Canadian, and a board member of both the BC Environmental Network and the Haig-Brown Institute.