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NORTH.CBC.CA News - Full Story :
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Pipeline 'more than thin ribbon', says enviro group
Last Updated: Jan 5 2005 05:39 PM CST
YELLOWKNIFE - An N.W.T. environmental group has mapped the industrial
development that might follow a Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline.
The pipeline is not a thin ribbon of development, but a web of cutlines,
branch lines and wells, says CARC
<http://north.cbc.ca/gfx/North/photos/200-carc-map.jpg>
The pipeline is not a thin ribbon of development, but a web of cutlines,
branch lines and wells, says CARC
The Canadian Arctic Resources Committee released the maps Tuesday
illustrating the level of development that would be required to fill the
pipeline to capacity.
The maps are based on projections by the oil companies hoping to build the
1,200 kilometre, $7-billion pipeline.
* LINK:
<http://www.indelta.com/cgi-bin2/carcpub.cgi?http://www.carc.org/2005/mappin
g_cumulative.htm> See the CARC maps
They show a web of seismic lines, wells and smaller pipelines covering the
Beaufort Delta region and the area around Colville Lake.
In addition to the pipeline there will be about 700 new wells and an
estimated 60,000 kilometres of seismic lines to keep the MacKenzie gas
project operating.
"We wanted to show people that this project is not simply a case of putting
a thin ribbon of steel down the Mackenzie Valley," Kevin O?Reilly, CARC's
research director, said in a news release.
"There are many more impacts from this project, and northerners deserve to
be shown that, clearly and plainly, as the environmental review of this
project is set to begin."
The maps are an attempt to visualize what regulators call the "cumulative
effects" of the project- development that is separate from the pipeline but
that occurs as a result of it.
The scale of development like cutlines has CARC consultant Petr Cizek
concerned.
"For example we know from studies in northern Alberta that woodland caribou
would avoid seismic cutlines by 250 metres," he says. "They will use that
habitat less."
"Given that we have not included all of the infrastructure that may be
associated with this project, the footprint would be actually, could be
larger than what we portrayed in the last particular map," adds O'Reilly,
indicating a map predicting final development by 2027.
The oil companies predict that there will be no significant cumulative
effects.
Pierre Alvarez of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says that
if a pipeline is built, the territory will continue to control the pace of
development.
"The oil and gas industry is highly regulated," he says. "We don't do any
exploration activity unless governments and landowners- in this case the
Gwich'in, Sahtu, Inuvialuit and others- put those lands out for bid."
Alvarez says there's no guarantee the projections the maps are based on will
come true.
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Shelagh Montgomery, PhD
Cumulative Effects Program Director
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee
4910 50th Street, 3rd Floor Mackay Building
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1705
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2P3
Tel.: 867-873-4715
Fax: 867-920-2685
E-mail: smontgomery@theedge.ca
Website: www.carc.org <http://www.carc.org/>
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