| Enbridge Line 9 Blockaded | 24 May 14 |
The group comprised of environmentalists, local residents, and members of First Nations, arrived and turned away Enbridge Oil employees from a work site. The protesters say Enbridge is preparing the pipe to carry tar sands bitumen across Ontario eastward through Quebec into the United States through Vermont and on to the Maine coast for export. The work being done on the site is called an "integrity dig," where a section of pipe is unearthed to fix a crack, dent or corrosion. According to Burlington resident Brian Sutherland, Line 9 has nearly 13,000 such structural weaknesses along its length, “and yet Enbridge is only doing a few hundred integrity digs." The Line 9 pipeline is 40 years old, and would be reversed to carry bitumen.
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