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Demand that Enbridge's proposal face a full hearing!

12/9/2019

 
By Vuxi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76614656
The fight against the fracked gas pipeline that Enbridge wants to put through rural Hamilton -- see this post for more detail on the proposal, and go here for a petition against the pipeline that you can sign and share -- is going to be a long one, and we will be asking you to take action in a number of ways in the coming months. The first one is easy: Send an email!

We want you to send an email to Christine Long, the secretary of the Ontario Energy Board, at BoardSec@ontarioenergyboard.ca. At this point, the OEB is deciding whether to allow Enbridge to simply submit written documents or whether to make them defend their proposal in an oral hearing. We feel strongly that the proposal should undergo an oral hearing. Please write to them and let them know that you think so too (and BCC us at info@hamilton350.org).

There are many reasons to take this position, and we encourage you to put it in your own words, but here are a few points you might want to make:

* the proposal raises significant issues and should be given thorough review
* the process must be made as open and transparent as possible, with as much opportunity as possible for the public to witness and participate
* the project crosses very ecologically significant land and puts water, wetlands, and endangered species at risk
* the project proposes to expand our supply of natural gas in the face of the climate emergency, when the science is telling us that we have to drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels
* it would allow Enbridge to be questioned about whether reducing demand through greater energy efficiency might be more in the public interest than creating new fossil fuel infrastructure

For more detail on Enbridge's proposal and more information you can use in your email, go here.

Thank-you!

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