Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Science

Environmental Assessment Dept: And critics say there is no time for the science to be completed before a federal deadline for the environmental assessment currently underway, according to The Star. The department didn t have them and vANCOUVER While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the fate of Enbridge s proposed pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to tankers on the British Columbia coast will be based on science and not politics, documents show some of that science isn t forthcoming. Documents filed with the National Energy Board show the environmental review panel studying the Northern Gateway project asked Fisheries and Oceans Canada for risk assessments for the bodies of water the proposed pipeline will cross. The pipeline is to traverse nearly 1,000 streams and rivers in the upper Fraser, Skeena and Kitimat watersheds. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.