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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Kinder Morgan pipeline project in for an increasingly rocky ride</h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><br />&nbsp;</p> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;this article is about a proposed new pipeline project to be built in B.C. The article was reported by Michael smith in the Province newspaper(online) on December 9th</li> <li>] it states that before environmental concerns like climate change, the oilsands, the deepwater horizon disaster a pipline project was common and boring and would not require an advertising campain or public relations campaign.</li> <li>] the main pipeline project in BC&nbsp;that is&nbsp;currently the focus of most attention is the Northern Gateway project.</li> <li>] NDP leader Adrian Dix has stated his public opposition to this project while Premier Clark has laid down strict condition for supporting it.</li> <li>] while the gateway project is recieving all the attention, another company Kinder Morgan is quietly going about&nbsp;its business&nbsp;with a proposal to build another pipeline to pump tarsands oil to the west coast port.</li> <li>] the proposal would increase from the current oil tanker shipments from 5 per month to a planned 25 per month.</li> <li>] The companies low key approach of town hall style meetings seems to be drawing less attention with only a handful of protesters showing up at its meetings.</li> <li>] Recently though, at an event in Victoria, a busload of protesters showed up and disrupted the meeting, causing the company to shut the meeting down early.</li> <li>] The reporter believes the incident signals a growing militancy of the opponents of the project and that the fight could take on Enbridge scale proportions as it moves forward.</li> <li>] Adrian Dix has NOT stated his position on this pipeline, while Premier Clark has called for a fair share of the profits, which the company has agreed in principle too.</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/opinion/Kinder+Morgan+pipeline+project+increasingly+rocky+ride/7669460/story.html#axzz2EhpiMaPy">http://www.theprovince.com/opinion/Kinder+Morgan+pipeline+project+increasingly+rocky+ride/7669460/story.html#axzz2EhpiMaPy</a></li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p>