Unprecedented opposition may make British Columbia pipeline a non-starter – Toronto Star

Published on Monday September 10, 2012Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA—More than 1,000 Canadians have spoken out at public hearings on whether to build the Northern Gateway oil pipeline through the British Columbia wilderness.

The information-gathering sessions, which resumed this week, will go on for months, with thousands of others waiting to give evidence.

But, even as corporate backers of the proposed $6-billion project began presenting their case, there was a growing conviction that the pipeline to carry oilsands-derived crude from Alberta to the B.C. coast had already become a non-starter.

On Tuesday in Edmonton, the so-called joint review panel set up by Prime Minister Stephen HarperÂ’s government heard for the first time from senior executives of Enbridge Inc., the Calgary-base energy giant proposing to build Northern Gateway.

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