never have i seen a clearer example of the arrogance of the corporate mentality towards the general public………well guys……..you know the old saying………you can fool some of the people etc………they are so used to getting away with it that it has become endemic to the corporate culture…….why not give it a try……….it is just another strategy to get things the way they want them……….a methodology of omission in order to satisfy the greed which is at the root of this modern form of evil……..too obvious this time………

This project along with our Federal Government need to be shut down. We cannot let democracy be ignored. As Canadians it is our duty to stand up to this government who seem determined to turn us into a 3rd world nation. The Enbridge pipline would not have gottten out of the starting gate if we had a government with any kind a social or environmental grasp oif reason. People of British Columbia cannot and will not stand by and watch our coastline be destroyed for the profit of multinations or Canadians for that matter. Frankly if we Canadians had any real guts we would shut down the tar sands completely, concentrate on renewable energy solutions and move forward with the civilized people of the planet.

Take a look at the English channel and Malacca Straits…some of the worlds largest tankers pass through these areas

Enbridge is treating the Canadain public as if it were a pack of simpletons. This stupidity detracts from serious consideration of a serious economic proposal.

Say no for the pipeline

Ok, so just because they said it's a 'representation and not to scale' at the end of the video makes it right? They knew what they were doing by eliminating those islands = makes their case look better.

There are a couple of important things to note here: 1. This story was submitted as part of our Best Pacific Ocean Stories contest and is NOT David Suzuki Foundation content. 2. Within hours of this story going out, Enbridge pulled the video from their site and reloaded it with the added disclaimer that this is not to scale and removed the misleading image from of one of the videos. Regardless, even if the video is only a graphic representation and not to scale, it still very much conveys the false image that the Douglas Channel is wide open and easily navigable, when in fact there are 1000 sq km of islands in the channel, making it extremely treacherous for tankers of any size, let alone ones that are as long as the empire state building. In fact, one of the erased islands (Gil Island) is the one that the BC Ferry Queen of the North hit before it sank. 3. The Enbridge disclaimer says that the “animation is for illustrative purposes only and is meant to be broadly representational, not to scale”. The ad itself is, however, is describing the safety of the pipeline route, so if it was to be even ‘broadly representational’ it should include the islands that fill a large part of the Douglas Channel. It appears to misrepresent the very issue the video is addressing – safety. 4. It’s true there is another detailed video of the tanker route. This story is not about that video. Though it lives on the same site, it doesn’t detract from the importance of fairly depicting the risk associated with the pipeline and tanker route in all promotional materials.

The political spin of this example and countless others has gotten to the point of being extremely tiresome. The deception and the stupidity is mindboggling. Is there a way back to honesty and integrity and Canada following the guidelines of scientists now when this is needed more than ever. We need to put an intelligent foot forward if we're ever to stop trashing the planet.

Enbridge isn't entirely wrong in this depiction. If they get their pipeline, those islands are as good as gone.

Call in the cavalry (NTSB) and chase out the keystone cops….!

Please make sure to include the original videos and source so people can make educated decisions.

I very much agree that they oversimplified the Douglas Channel, but the video CLEARLY states not to scale and oversimplied etc etc and it's not even the main video it's literally just a flyover of the pipelines route in a cartoony drawing.

http://www.northerngateway.ca/project-details/route-video/ < The video in question. HRm… well it does say does not represent scale and has been simplified…

They do follow up with this though: http://www.northerngateway.ca/economic-opportunity/northern-gateway-tanker-safety-video/

Wouldn't it only be fair to link the DETAILED video, which exists on the EXACT same site, which explains how they plan on navigating the treacherous channel? It took me 5 minutes to find this on the SAME SITE the flyover video is on

http://www.northerngateway.ca/economic-opportunity/northern-gateway-tanker-safety-video/

If you also watch the original video it clearly states:

"The animation is for illustrative purposes only. it is meant to be broadly representational, not to scale"

I really WANT to support your cause, but not when you support your own motives with this kind of lack of journalistic integrity. Give me the entire context. Give me the big picture.

Heres my view: just leave enbridge dangling out in cyberspace wearing this ad of theirs and all possible repercussions against themselves. For example as soon as I saw this story on a discussion site about Aboriginal issues, I looked up the US NTSB site and forwarded to them a link to the story as it appears in the Vancouver Sun. In other words, I felted prompted to come up with some measure to help reveal this corporation's activities in a forum wider than Canadian media. Whether that little email has an effect directly, I know it does reinforce in me that I can and should be active on behalf of my beliefs about our future. Each of our actions will lead us to a stronger position as individual citizens and as a group. We will be less passive and accepting of the actions of aggressive corporations. We must PRACTISE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.