| Mackenzie Valley Developers "Disdain" Environmental Review | 18 January 05 |
 "Imperial Oil and its partner companies are showing disdain for the regulatory process for the $7 billion Mackenzie Gas Project by submitting inadequate environmental studies," according to a Sierra Club Canada press release.SCC Executive Director Elizabeth May doesn't want the environmental regulator and government to let themselves be "bullied" by oil giants. "Perhaps the oil companies think that federal political support means that the mega project will automatically be approved regardless of the environmental harm it causes. We hope this is not the case." Imperial Oil's majority shareholder is ExxonMobil, the world's second largest corporation, and its products are sold primarily under the Esso brand (also owned by ExxonMobil). The Mackenzie Gas Project would involve development of three natural gas fields near the Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories and a 1,220 km pipeline connecting them to markets in Canada and the US. Proponents hope to be pumping as much as 34 million cubic meters per day through the 76 cm diameter pipeline by 2010. That daily amount is enough to heat 30,000 homes for a year. View the Sierra Club of Canada release View Imperial Oil's January 7 news release View a map of the proposed pipeline (PDF) Visit the Mackenzie Gas Project Public Registry Visit the Northern Gas Project Secretariat website Visit the Mackenzie project website Sources: Sierra Club of Canada, Manitoba Wildlands |
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