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BREAKING THE TRAILBREAKER

A special report on the Enbridge

Trailbreaker Pipeline Expansion

Foreword from Climate Justice Montreal

Each day in Canada, the Athabasca tar sands transform

the pristine boreal forest into a vast moonscape, through

the largest and most destructive industrial project on the

planet. Cannibalizing water, natural gas, trees and earth

the tar sands are the single largest point source of non-

tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions in the entire country.

The Trailbreaker pipeline, and others like it across

North America, are being pursued in order to facilitate a

five fold increase in tar sands size and production over

the next 15 years. It will pump 200,000 barrels of dirty

tar sands bitumen each day from Alberta to Portland,

Maine. It crosses 5 provinces, a national border and 5

states, eventually loaded onto tankers to be shipped all

the way to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

This project would endanger local ecosystems, wildlife,

and human health,all while facilitating the expansion of the tar sands. This report will attempt to explain the local and global impacts of this project, so that communities all along its path of destruction can stand up and stop it

before this toxic nightmare becomes a reality – Climate Justice Montreal

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Who we are:

Formed in November 2009, Climate Justice Montreal is a group dedicated to the principles of Climate Justice.  Employing a range of tactics from mass mobilizations, to direct action and popular education campaigns we pledge our voices, hands, hearts and minds to averting the catastrophic climate change, in our communities and around the globe.  Not limited to the environmental realm, we recognize that the degradation of planetary systems is caused by inherently flawed global models of governance, power and resource exploitation that must also be confronted. The struggle for climate and environ-mental justice is part of the greater struggle for global social justice.

We stand and work in solidarity with front-line communities around the globe and offer our support to their struggles, recognizing that it is the leaders of these communities who must lead the fight against their destruction and oppression.

Table of Contents

What the Tar Sands Need! ii

The Flow! vi

Tracking the pipeline from the tar sands to Texas! vi

The Players! x

An overview of the corporations involved in the Trailbreaker project.! x

Politicians! xiii

Politicians along the pathway and what they are (or aren’t) doing! xiii

How to clog a pipe! xv

Conclusions, commentary and a call to action! xv

Media coverage and resources! xvi

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What the Tar Sands Need- Dru Oja Jay

Water

For each barrel of oil produced from the tar sands, between two and 4.5 barrels of water is needed. The water is used in the process of extracting bitumen from the naturally occurring the tar sand. The bitumen is later "upgraded" into synthetic crude oil.

In 2007, the government of Alberta approved the withdrawal of 119.5 billion gallons of water for tar sands extraction, of which an estimated 82 per cent came from the Athabasca River. Of that, extraction companies were only required to return 10 billion gallons to the river.

Most of the water used ends up in giant, toxic tailing ponds. As of 2006, tailing ponds covered 50-square kilometers of former boreal forest. By 2010, according to the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, the industry will have gener-ated 8 billion tons of waste sand and 1 billion cubic metres of waste water--enough to fill 400,000 olympic-sized swimming pools. Today, the largest human-made dam by volume of materials is the Syncrude tailing pond, a few kilometres from the Athabasca river.

The waste sand and water contain naphtha and paraffin, which are used in the extraction process, and oil leftovers like benzene, naphthenic acid and polyaromatic hydrocarbon, among others. Chemicals found in the tailing ponds are known to cause liver problems and brain hemorrhaging in mammals, and deformities and death in birds.

It is difficult to estimate the volume of toxins that make their way into the Athabsca, but downstream communities like Fort Chipewyan have reported high occurrences of rare cancers, lupus, multiple sclerosis and other diseases in recent years. Local fishermen have reported boils and deformities in fish. One winter, an oil slick was discovered un-der the ice. Syncrude later admitted that there had been a spill about 200 kilometres upstream.

The Athabasca also feeds Great Slave Lake, Deh Cho (the Mackenzie River) and vast northern watersheds. Water from the Athabasca flows all the way to the Arctic Ocean, and plays an essential role in the lives of indigenous com-munities and vast areas of Boreal forest.

Energy

Between digging up the tar sand, separating out the bitumen, and subsequently upgrading it to synthetic heavy crude, the extraction process requires vast amounts of energy. Because the tar sand and bitumen must be heated, about 1/6 of the energy provided by a barrel of oil is expended to extract one barrel of oil from tar sand.

Opponents of the tar sands say that burning a relatively clean fuel like natural gas to produce oil undermines any efforts to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions and transition to sustainable fuel sources. According to estimates from the Pembina Institute, the tar sands will account for 25 per cent of Canada's emissions by 2020, if Kyoto targets are reached.

The vast amounts of natural gas needed to extract millions of barrels of oil per day are leading to an anticipated shortage of supply. As a result, several energy megaprojects have been proposed.

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Perhaps the most contentious of the proposals is the $7 billion Mackenzie Gas Project, a 1220 kilometre pipeline that runs along the Mackenzie River Valley, from the Arctic Ocean to Alberta's northern border. The project would connect the estimated 82 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta with the tar sands extraction plants to the south.

A second project, the Alaska Gas Pipeline would connect Alaska's north slope, home to an estimated 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with the Mackenzie valley route.

In part to make up for the natural gas supply taken up by the tar sands, Liquid Natural Gas terminals have been pro-posed in multiple locations on the west coast, east coast and along the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The terminals would receive natural gas from tankers incoming from the Middle East, Russia and other overseas sources.

Natural gas supply is still not enough to keep up with anticipated growth, leading industry to explore options such as nuclear power. Alberta's first nuclear power plant has been proposed in the town of Peace River, though it has faced some local opposition.

Much to the dismay of environmentalists, there is also discussion of building new coal-burning power plants into future tar sands upgrading facilities.

Labour

The Conference Board of Canada predicted in 2006 that Alberta would face a shortage of 332,000 workers by 2025. The figure has been dismissed as exaggerated (it is based on the current rate of growth continuing unimpeded), but it seems to be an accurate reflection of the concern Alberta's industrial sector has shown recently.

That tar sands require a massive influx of labour is not disputed. Another estimate says that 20,000 new positions will be created in the tar sands over the next three years.

The signs of a labour shortage are already apparent in Alberta. Workers from Newfoundland and the Maritimes are offered flights to and from Fort McMurray for the duration of their work term. Grocery stores and fast food joints offer hourly wages in the double digits, and sometimes offer signing bonuses.

Increasingly, workers are brought in from countries like China and the Philippines. In 2006, Immigration Canada is-sued 15,172 new "temporary work permits" in Alberta, bringing the number of temporary workers to 22,392.

Temporary workers differ from immigrants in that they have no access to immigration services, and can effectively be sent home. According to some reports, the workers' temporary status leaves the door open to abuse. In one case, 12 men brought in by a trucking company were charged $500 per month to live in a three-bedroom bungalow.

The temporary foreign workers program has sparked a debate over the development of the tar sands.

"Most skilled workers would prefer to have 20 years of stable employment rather than seven or eight years of frantic development," writes Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour. If the pace of development was slowed, he writes, the need for temporary foreign workers would diminish.

Currently, development is heading in the opposite direction, with plans to increase production fivefold in the next twenty years. Regulations are being "streamlined," and plans are in place to further increase the number of foreign workers.

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Land

Open pit mining of tar sands, according to the Government of Alberta, involves "clearing trees and brush from a site and removing the overburden - the topsoil, muskeg, sand, clay and gravel - that sits atop the oil sands deposit." The "overburden" that is removed is up to 75 metres (about 25 stories) deep, and the underlying tar sands are typically between 40 and 60 metres deep.

After trees and brush are clearcut and either burned or sent to sawmills, the area is drained, and any local rivers are rerouted. Giant trucks then remove soil, clay and sand to uncover the prized tar sands. The sands are then removed and taken to plants to be processed. In the end, an average of four tonnes of earth must be removed to render one barrel of oil.

In addition to tailing ponds (see "Water"), vast amounts of waste sand are generated. These sands, still containing traces of bitumen and other chemicals, are inhospitable to life. Near Syncrude's extraction plant, for example, a vast desert stretches over the horizon. The expanse shows no signs of life, and carries the overpowering smell of asphalt.

The tar sands cover an estimated 141,000-square kilometres, of which approximately 3,400-square kilometres will be strip mined if currently-approved projects go forward.

Government regulations require the strip-mined land to be "reclaimed," and returned to a "stable, biologically self-sustaining state." According to Syncrude's web site, this means "productive capability at least equal to its condition before operations began." Syncrude envisions "a mosaic landscape dominated by productive forests, wetland areas alive with waterfowl and grasslands supporting grazing animals."

So far, Suncor says it has reclaimed 858 hectares, accounting for less than 9 per cent of the land it has mined since 1967. Syncrude has mined 18,653 hectares, a little under a fifth of which it says it has reclaimed.

None of the land, however, has been officially certified as reclaimed by the government. Both corporations have bill-board advertisements in Fort McMurray proclaiming the success of their reclamation programs. In the end, it is not clear that land will be fully reclaimed, and government agencies have been criticized as lax in enforcing regulations.

This originally appeared as part of The Dominion’s special issue on the Tar Sands, check out more at www.dominionpaper.ca

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800,000tonnes of earth torn from pristine Boreal forests each dayThe oil industry calls this overburden, and the 200,000 barrels a day facilitated by the Trailbreaker would add the capacity for this increased destruction.

litres of fresh water, from one of largest watersheds in North AmericaEach litre of oil made from the tar sands required between 2 and 4.5 litres of clean, fresh water from the Athabasca

watershed, representing 1/5 of North Americaʼs acces-sible fresh water. SAGD development will use up to 5x this amount.DESTRUCTION

MADE SIMPLE

The Trailbreaker by the numbers

breaks and leaks from Enbridge Pipelines between 1999 and 2009. The long distance covered by oil pipelines makes them difficult to maintain, and vulnerable to the elements, making spills a matter of when, not if.

litres spilled in these breakages. While the exact causes of each spill are different, the high pressure and often remote locations of pipelines make spills extremely difficult to stop, even those caught immediately can leak thousands of litres of oil onto the surrounding land.

61021 million

61 spills and 2.1 million litres spilledEnbridgeʼs Yearly Average.

400,000 to900,000

The FlowTracking the pipeline from the tar sands to Texas

The Trailbreaker pipeline begins just outside of Fort MacMurray, AB coming out of the extractors and upgraders that are digging up the tar sands. The heavy, dirty liquified bitumen then travels to Edmonton, AB, home to more refiner-ies and upgraders, before starting in journey East across the continent.

Edmonton – the Border

The first leg of the journey travels from Edmonton, AB through Hardisty, AB, into southern Saskatchewan. From Regina, SK, it passes through Cromer and Gretna, SK, to the southern edge of Manitoba before crossing into the United States. This stretch crosses agricultural land through the heart of Canada’s “bread basket” – Saskatchewan alone produces 60% of all of the wheat grown in Canada1.

In 2007, Line 3 of the Enbridge Saskatchewan System (a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc.) – which currently transports oil from Hardisty to Wisconsin – was found to be leaking near Glenavon, SK, around 115km south east of Regina.

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1 http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/wheat.html

In January 2001, an Enbridge pipeline just outside of Hardisty ruptured, spilling 20,000 barrels of oil2.

The route through Hardisty is also extremely important for the proposed Keystone XL overland pipeline to Texas3.

The Border – Chicago

The Trailbreaker pipeline will cross into the United States, where the Minnesota/North Dakota – and Canadian bor-ders meet, near the border town of Neche entering the Lakehead System (the largest pipeline network on the planet). It then travels through Clearbrook, MN, into Superior, MN, just outside of Duluth, and on the western tip of Lake Superior. This section of the pipeline runs through the Chipewa National Forest4, the oldest national forest east of the Mississippi, covering nearly 1.6 million acres.

It then crosses Minnesota, through Wisconsin, to Chicago, IL, at the southern tip of Lake Michigan.

Chicago – Montreal

Leaving Chicago, the pipeline returns to Canada at the Sarnia, ON, border crossing, the southernmost point of Lake Huron, entering Line 9 of the Enbridge pipeline network. Sarnia is already home to numerous refineries and other industrial processing facilities, which many believe is linked to high levels of cancer and other diseases. Also, accord-ing to a presentation by the National Energy Board of Canada to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in June 2005, the Great Lakes re-gion is one of the highest concentration areas for pipeline leaks and breakages5 in North America.

The pipeline then continues through Wes-tover, ON, past Canada’s largest metropo-lis, Toronto, along the shores of Lake On-tario and through Hilton, ON. Following the path of Highway 401, the pipeline then makes its way Montreal, across agri-cultural land in Quebec and Ontario and near both Lake Ontario and the St. Law-rence river, important watersheds for the entire Great Lakes region.

Montreal – Portland

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2 http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-pipe-spilling-oil-saskatchewan-underground

3 http://oilsandstruth.org/keystone-hearings-saskatchewan

4 http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/chippewa/about/forest_facts/index.php

5 http://www.unece.org/env/teia/water/pipeline/end_ve_van_egmond.pdf

The pipeline enters Mont-real via Terrbonne, QC on the north shore of the is-land, slated to deliver at least 40,000 barrels of tar sands oil to the Petro Can-ada refinery in East Mont-real, and is diverted south-east towards the Eastern Townships region, an im-portant agricultural and tourist region of the prov-ince. Now in the Montreal – Portland system, it makes its way through a number of small communities, across the Richelieu River to Dunham, QC, where a pumping station is facing resistance from local resi-

dents.

It crosses into Vermont, passing near North Troy and Troy and New Hampshire in Lancaster, this path runs close to Victory State Forest and Crystal Lake in Vermont, as well as Mt Washington in New Hampshire. The pipeline then travels through Gorham, NH, into Maine near Bethel, running along the northern edge of White Mountain National Forest6.

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6 http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/white_mountain/

“Proposed Pipeline?”

As it stands, the Trailbreaker has been ‘shelved’ by Enbridge due to a decline in tar sands production, and project investment in 2008-2009, leading some groups to question the reasoning for launching a campaign against this project. For Enbridge, and the tar sands extraction operations which it serves, the Trailbreaker remains the most expedient outlet to facilitate the transmission of tar sands bitumen to refineries in the Gulf Coast (according to earlier reports the Trailbreaker was supposed to be transporting bitumen by 2010). Other Texas access projects require the construction of entirely new pipelines, while the Trailbreaker needs little in terms of infrastructure. Add this to an announcement from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in early June 2010 that the tar sands were set to expand exponentially in the near future, bringing a number of developments off the shelf.

Right now, construction of a pumping station is still being pursued in Dunham, QC, a project that would only be useful in reversing the flow of the Portland – Montreal line, in order to facilitate the Trailbreaker project. Addi-tionally, the closure and repurposing of Montreal’s Shell refinery due to declining inputs from conventional ex-traction operations, evidences the need for new oil sources, which the Trailbreaker would facilitate.

It heads south near Norway and Oxford and into the Sebago Lake region before passing within 10 miles of Poland Spring. It also crosses the Androscoggin river basin before ending up in Portland, where the Portland – Montreal Pipeline Company operates a petroleum terminal at the southern end of Casco Bay.

Portland – Texas

No information could be found regarding the exact shipping route from Portland to the Gulf of Texas, but tankers would travel along the entire eastern seaboard of the United States, past the tip of Florida, and most likely ending up in Houston, TX.

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The PlayersAn overview of the corporations involved in the Trailbreaker project.

Enbridge Inc.

http://www.enbridge.com3000 Fifth Avenue Place 425 - 1st Street S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 3L8 CanadaTelephone: (403) 231-3900 Fax: (403) 231-3920General inquiries: webmaster-corp@enbridge.com Media Relations: jennifer.varey@enbridge.com

With their head office located in Calgary, AB, Enbridge (formerly known as the Interprovincial Pipe Line Company) has become one of the largest oil and gas pipeline companies in North America. According to a 2009 annual report Enbridge moves “71% of western Canadian crude oil exports and satisfy 12% of the U.S.’s daily crude oil imports”. Each day Enbridge ships 730 million barrels of petroleum liquids around the continent, the majority of which is either going to or leaving the tar sands. In 2009, Enbridge’s total revenue was $16.13 billion.

The heart of Enbridge’s operations is what it calls the “mainline system”, a pipeline network – the largest in the world – which links the Alberta oil industry with refining and manufacturing centers in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. According to a corporate profile of Enbridge from the Polaris Institute the mainline system:

“can ship up to 349 million litres of oil products per day. That is enough liquid to fill 140 Olympic sized pools every day. The system consists of approximately 8000 kilometres (5,000 miles) of mainline pipe in Canada, and 5600 kilome-

tres (3,500 miles) of mainline pipe in the United States.”

In addition to the mainline system –which potentially would include a section of Trailbreaker running through Mani-toba and Saskatchewan to Chicago, Illinois – Enbridge owns the Lakehead Pipeline System. Made up of 16 different pipelines, this system running near the Canadian border would likely facilitate the Chicago to Sarnia, Ontario seg-ment of the Trailbreaker.

The Trailbreaker is part of the largest expansion project in Enbridge’s history, originally planned in order to:

“increase capacity on Enbridge’s mainline east of Chicago to bring western Canadian crude oil to eastern markets. It will also establish access to the U.S. Gulf Coast markets and eastern seaboard. Subject to finalization of industry sup-port and regulatory and other approvals, Enbridge estimates the Trailbreaker project will be in service around 2010.”

Today, Enbridge’s official stance is that the Trailbreaker has been temporarily put on hold due to economic reasons. According tho their 2008 Annual Report, the global economic slowdown put the brakes on the project, along with a lack of commercial support for the reversal of the Portland-Montreal pipeline by the local third party company Portland-Montreal Pipeline, who are currently involved in building a pumping station in the community of Dunham, QC (southeast of Montreal).

For a full corporate profile of Enbridge, check out this report from the Polaris Institute: http://www.tarsandswatch.org/files/EnbridgeProfile.pdf

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Portland-Montreal Pipeline Company

Porrtland Office:

30 Hill StreetPO Box 2590South Portland, ME 04116-2590

Phone: 207-767-0421

Montreal Office:

10803, rue Sherbrooke EstMontreal East, Quebec H1B-1B3

Phone: 514-645-8797

The Portland-Montreal Pipeline Company (PMPL) was founded in 1941 to transport crude oil from the United States to the then booming oil refining industry in East Montreal. It is made up of two companies, the Portland Pipeline Company, and the Montreal Pipeline Company, the former of which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the latter, a pri-vately held company incorporated in Canada. They operate the Montreal – Portland section of the proposed Trail-breaker, a 69 year old pipeline crossing 380 km (236 miles) from the shores of Casco Bay in Southern Portland, Maine through a network of pipelines and pumping stations to Montreal, QC. This is the only major stretch of pipeline that is not directly owned by Enbridge Inc. or a subsidiary company.

PMPL also owns and controls a terminal at the Port of Portland, where there are also petroleum terminals owned by Gulf, Mobil and Cargill. This terminal would likely be used to load the heavy oil onto tankers to be sent to refineries in the Gulf of Texas.

On August 5, 2008, residents of Dunham, QC, a small community in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec were informed of PMPL’s desire to build a pumping station in their community to facilitate the pipeline reversal that nec-essary for the Trailbreaker project. The residents of Dunham have since engaged in a campaign to stop the project, currently pushing for a BAPE (Quebec’s Environmental Impact Assessment) report (view the entire timeline to De-cember 2009 at http://www.forummissisquoi.com/opinion/OFF0042.html).

A report from Radio-Canada, based on information gathered through an Access to Information request showed that the PMPL had reported 20 breakages or leaks over the past 20 years along the 113 km of pipeline in Quebec.

Petro Canada/Suncor

Head Office: 150 - 6th Avenue S.W.Calgary, AlbertaTel.: (403) 296-8000http://www.petro-canada.ca/default.aspx

The idea of Petro Canada was introduced as a reaction to the 1973 oil crisis, and to nationalize the Canadian Oil In-dustry, which had previously been largely controlled by American extraction companies. Officially founded in 1975, they purchased a combination of extraction holdings and retail stations, and for 15 years it grew to become one of the largest oil companies in Canada. In 1990 it was announced that the company would be privatized, a program even-tually completed in 2004. In August 2009, Petro Canada merged with Suncor, one of the most prominent tar sands extraction companies.

Petro Canada and Suncor, beyond both being deeply involved in tar sands development, also operate the East Mont-real refinery that is set to receive 40,000 barrels of liquified bitumen each day from the Trailbreaker to be refined into petrochemical products. This refinery is currently considered one of the “cleanest” oil refineries in Canada because of

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voluntary benzene emissions reductions taken in the 1990’s to improve local air quality. It is also required, as other Montreal refineries, to comply with Bylaw 90, which limits heavy oil combustion in Montreal to fuels with less than 1% sulfur content.

Royal Dutch Shell

400 - 4th Avenue S.W.Calgary, AlbertaT2P 0J4

Phone: (403) 691-3111

http://www.shell.ca/

Currently, the shell refinery in East Montreal was put up for sale because of declining input from the Portland – Montreal pipeline. Without a buyer it is scheduled to be transformed into a gasoline and petrochemical distribution facility, which will lead to over 500 lay-offs. Due to this, the refinery is not scheduled to be linked into the Trail-breaker system, but the closure points to declining flow from Portland to Montreal and thus a need for a new input source for the Montreal refining sector, and the PMPL system.

British Petroleum (BP)

Canadian Office 240- 4th AvenueSW,CalgaryAB T2P 2H8Phone: (403) 233-1313

In 2008, Enbridge teamed up with BP to provide tar sands oil to the BP owned Texas City refinery, a refinery linked to the Gulf Coast of Texas with a 460,000 barrel-a-day capacity. It remains un-confirmed if this will be linked to the Trailbreaker project.

Exxon-Mobil

It was announced in 2007 that Enbridge and Exxon had reached an agreement to begin shipping heavy oil from the tar sands to their Gulf refineries by 2010. It remains to be seen if these will be linked into the Trailbreaker.

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PoliticiansPoliticians along the pathway and what they are (or aren’t) doing

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Governor: Jim Douglas (Republican), endorsed goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025 (http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Jim_Douglas_Energy_+_Oil.htm), implemented Clean Air and Clean Water Action Plan in 2003.

Senators: Senior Senator Patrick Leahy (Democrat), has promoted conservation of Lake Champlain (had it recognized as a great lake), http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/patrick_leahy.htm

Junior Senator Bernard Sanders (Democrat), former mayor of Burlington, has served on senate committees on Environment & Public Works as well as Energy & Natural Resources, supporter of strong action on climate change: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/the-environment-and-the-e_b_340587.html

Congress: Peter Welch (Democrat) Former State Senator, vocal on need to take strong action on climate change, has voted against oil and gas industry in the US. has sat on committee on Energy and Commerce and the subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. sponsored regulations to strengthen safety inspection on the nuclear power industry and for the exploration of alternative fuels as well as other sustainable initiatives

Vermont

New Hampshire

Governor: John Lynch (Democrat), signed NH onto the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and en-dorsed 25% energy from renewables by 2025, http://www.lynchcommittee.com/release_details.asp?id=4

Senators: Senior Senator Judd Gregg (Republican), ranking member of Senate Budget committee, up for re-election in 2010 and will not run again

Junior Senator. Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat), former NH governor, recently elected to senate, member of senate committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has pushed for US to become climate leader and reducing dependence on foreign oil, http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/jeanne_shaheen.htm

Congress: Rep. Paul W. Hodes (Democrat), member of senate committee on Natural Resources

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Quebec

Premier: Jean Charest (Liberal), Passive support, has made no statement on BAPE or the pipeline, he has condemned Alberta and the rest of Canada for Tar Sands emissions

Minister of Environment: Line Beauchamp (Liberal), Passive support, has made no public statement of support for the BAPE

Politicians in impacted communities:

Christian Ouillet (Bloc Quebecois, Federal Member of Parliament for Brome—Mis-sisquoi, QC), active in advocating to get a BAPE report for the Trailbreaker, http://openparliament.ca/politicians/christian-ouellet/

Scott McKay (Parti Quebecois, Provincial Member of the National Assembly for L’Assomption), Presenting a petition to National Assembly to get a BAPE report:

http://scottmckay.org/nouvelle/scott-mckay-parraine-la-petition-enquete-sur-l%E2%80%99oleoduc-montreal-portland

Mathieu Traversy (Parti Quebecois, Provincial Member of the National Assembly for Terrebonne) no public position on pipeline

Jean-Guy Demers (Mayor, Dunham) elected in 2009 after campaigning against the pipeline and pumping station

Governor: John Balducci (Democrat), signed NH onto the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initia-tive, and endorsed 25% energy from renewables by 2025, http://www.lynchcommittee.com/release_details.asp?id=4

Senators: Senior Senator Olimpia Snowe (Republican), supported expanding clean water act, and the Republican ‘Main Street’ Partnership stance on environment, http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Olympia_Snowe_Environment.htm

Junion Senator Senator Susan Collins (Republican), sits on subcommittees on Agriculture and the Environment senate appropriations committee, ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Susan_Collins_Environment.htm

Congress: Rep Mike Michaud (Democrat), representative of Maine’s second congressional district, sits on the Subcommit-tee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, http://www.ontheissues.org/house/michael_michaud.htm

Rep Chellie Pingree (Democrat), representative of Maine’s first district, has been critical of BP in light of Deep Horizon spill, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chellie-pingree/bp-should-help-us-build-o_b_593937.html

Maine

How to clog a pipe

Conclusions, commentary and a call to action

A section of northern Alberta larger than the entire nation of Greece is being sacrificed. Our continent’s thirst for oil, one which has not managed to satiate poverty, inequality or any other social malaise, has demanded that a massive swath of pristine forest, part of one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet, be destroyed. Wildlife, forests and rivers have been killed by an in-dustry with a moral compass so broken that it proceeds without flinching to systematically ex-terminate the downstream, primarily indigenous7, communities through an epidemic of rare and deadly cancers. Of course,the Canadian government has turned a blind eye, not only sup-porting, but subsidizing this project. The tar sands must be stopped.

As pipelines like the Trailbreaker head out across Canada and the United States, facilitating the expansion of a deadly industrial monster, they also threaten our homes and communities. They are bringing the tar sands into our backyards.

But these pipelines also provide an opportunity, as the tar sands are set to expand, so too must their delivery system, making the beast vulnerable. These projects are both expensive and ex-pansive, and often must make their way into unfriendly political territory. They are the achilles heel of the tar sands, and stopping them in their tracks will leave the industrial moonscape north of Fort McMurray alone.

Today we watch as the Gulf Coast of the United States, the final home for the Trailbreaker’s cargo, floods with oil – a preventable mistake. We call on our allies of all ages, political alle-giances, faiths and backgrounds to join in resisting the Trailbreaker and the tar sands. We can make sure that our communities are tar sands free, because we must transition out of these dirty energy industries that place our lives and homes at risk, and force us to depend on volatile, non-renewable fossil fuels.

For a clean, green and just future, please join us in stopping the Trailbreaker.

In solidarity;

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7 One area not covered in this report is the various raditional indigenous territories crossed by the Trailbreaker, such as the Haldeman Tract. We

pledge to work in solidarity with the people of the lands if they choose to resist this project, but believe that it is not out place to claim these struggles

as our own, and thus that part of a report on the Trailbreaker remains to be written.

Climate Justice Montreal

Media coverage and resources Online Resources:

Climate Justice Montreal: www.climateactionmontreal.wordpress.com

climateactionmtl@gmail.com

Oil Sands Truth: http://oilsandstruth.org/

The Dominion: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/ Tar Sands issue: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tarsands)

Tar Sands watch: http://www.tarsandswatch.org/ Enbridge Corporate Profile: http://www.tarsandswatch.org/files/EnbridgeProfile.pdf

Polaris Institute: http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/cits.html

Freedom from Dirty Oil report on the tar sands and Trailbreaker in Ontario:

http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/reports/pdf/OntarioTarSandsReport.pdf

Canadian Pipeline Landowners Association:

www.pipelinelandowners.com

Comité environnemental de Dunham:

ced.dunham@gmail.com

Media Coverage:

Sovereigntists, Environmental Groups Oppose Trail-breaker: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3402

Montreal pipeline could send Albert oil to U.S: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Montreal+pipeline+could+send+Albert/2947989/story.html

Opposition grows to pipeline plan: http://www.montrealgazette.com/story_print.html?id=2948551&sponsor=

Enbridge and BP Announce Agreement to Develop De-livery System for Canadian Crude Oil From Illinois to the U.S. Gulf Coast: http://www.miningtopnews.com/enbridge-and-bp-announce-agreement-to-develop-delivery-system-for-canadian-crude-oil-from-illinois-to-the-us-gulf-coast.html

Montreal’s Fossil Foolery: http://www.montrealmirror.com/2010/040110/news3.html

Enbridge delays Sarnia-Maine pipeline project

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/01/19/enbridge-pipeline-delay.html

Enbridge Delays Gulf Coast Pipeline: http://oilsandstruth.org/index.php?q=enbridge-delays-gulf-coast-pipeline

Enbridge project seeks to reduce dependency on foreign oil supplies

http://www.communitypress.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1211963

Le projet Trailbreaker et ses conséquences environnemen-tales

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/la-voix-de-lest/201005/05/01-4277338-le-projet-trailbreaker-et-ses-consequences-environnementales.php

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Up to date information and breaking tar sands news:

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