XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, van.general   
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   From: Çons@minority#s   
      
   Thu Aug 9, 2012   
      
   Canada pipeline firms to boost PR effort after big spills   
      
      
   OTTAWA (Reuters) - Widespread concern about high-profile ruptures of Canadian   
   pipelines   
   shows the industry has not done a good enough job of demonstrating how safe it   
   really is,   
   a top industry official said on Thursday.   
   Among the pipeline companies, Enbridge Inc has been the target of much of the   
   chagrin   
   after two big leaks on its U.S. network in the last two years triggered harsh   
   criticism of   
   its operations from senior American officials.   
      
   The spills have brought plenty of negative media coverage about Enbridge,   
   which wants to   
   build a pipeline from the oilsands of northern Alberta to a port on the   
   Pacific Coast so   
   Canadian crude can be exported to China and other Asian markets.   
      
   Brenda Kenny, president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, said her   
   members must   
   do more to assure Canadians that the industry has a safe record and is trying   
   to eliminate   
   what she said is an already small number of serious spills.   
      
   "I think every company recognizes that there are some very important questions   
   being asked   
   and we need to be a lot more transparent," she told a news conference in   
   Ottawa.   
      
   "I would fully acknowledge that as a sector, we're coming to this late in   
   terms of going   
   public with the programs we have under way ... we should have been more   
   communicative   
   earlier."   
      
   Critics opposed to Enbridge's C$6 billion ($6.1 billion) Northern Gateway   
   pipeline say the   
   U.S. accidents only confirm their conviction that the project is too risky,   
   especially as   
   it would be built in an environmentally sensitive region.   
      
   The association took out advertisements in major Canadian newspapers on   
   Thursday to   
   announce what it said was an industry-wide initiative to boost pipeline safety   
   by "sharing   
   best practices and applying advanced technology" in Canada.   
      
   You will be seeing a lot more of us," Kenny said, promising a public campaign   
   to underline   
   the importance of pipelines.   
      
   As well as Enbridge, members of the association include TransCanada Corp,   
   Kinder Morgan   
   Energy Partners Ltd, Atco Ltd and Alliance Pipeline LP.   
      
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