From: The Bangor Daily News
By Seth Koenig, BDN Staff
PORTLAND, Maine — State environmental groups decried a decision by
the Canadian government late Thursday afternoon to allow the reversal
and expansion of a pipeline leading to east Montreal, where they say
controversial tar sands oil can now be pumped almost to the New England
border.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Sierra Club, 350
Maine and Environment Maine have long considered the change of direction
of the 397-mile section of Enbridge Line 9 — from North Westover,
Ontario, to Montreal — the final link before the Portland Pipe Line
Corp. seeks to reverse its pipe through Maine and complete energy giant
Enbridge’s path from the oil sands of Alberta to tankers in the Atlantic
port of South Portland.
Currently, Line 9 and the connected 236-mile-long
Portland-Montreal line pump from east to west, carrying the less
controversial crude oil inland from the tankers. MORE
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