TransCanadaʼs Energy East pipeline plan: Our Risk, Their Reward

ALBERTA HUDSON BAY NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR 1 MANITOBA EDMONTON 2 CALGARY SASKATOON

REGINA ONTARIO LETHBRIDGE 3 WINNIPEG NEW PEI BRUNSWICK CHARLOTTETOWN KENORA 5 KAPUSKASING 4 FREDERICTON NOVA SCOTIA 6 8 LAKE SUPERIOR 9 HALIFAX SHERBROOKE NORTH BAY MONTREAL SAINT JOHN Gas pipeline proposed for conversion SUDBURY OTTAWA New pipe to be dug GEORGIAN BAY 7 CORNWALL LAKE Tanker export route HURON TORONTO LAKE ONTARIO HAMILTON Tanker export terminal LONDON LAKE WINDSOR MICHIGAN LAKE ERIE

1. The Tar Sands 2. Hardistry, 4. Otterburne, Manitoba 6. Temagami 8. Quebec City crossing The tar sands are the fastest growing Energy East would begin in Hardisty, In January 2014, a natural gas pipeline in Energy East would cross through TransCanada wants to bury this high RejectEnergyEast.ca source of carbon pollution in . Alberta, a major terminal for tar sands the same network to be converted for Temagami, a cherished ecosystem of pressure tar sands oil pipeline under the Building massive new fossil fuel bitumen. Often diluted with toxic and Energy East exploded in a massive old-growth pine forests and pristine St. Lawrence River, west of Quebec City – infrastructure like Energy East could explosive chemicals like benzene, tar reball 50 km south of Winnipeg. lakes. The region is the traditional creating the possibility that oil could leak further increase Canada's climate sands oil is more dangerous to ship by TransCanada admits it still doesn’t know territory of the Anishnaabe people and is or rupture directly into the river. pollution. These increases could be pipeline than conventional oil. If spilled what caused the incident. This was just home to the Temagami First Nation, one inconsistent with Alberta’s proposed cap into a waterway, heavy tar sands one of many incidents on TransCanada’s of 52 independent First Nations and 9. Export Tankers: on carbon pollution and Canada's bitumen can sink and coat river and pipeline network in recent years, raising Metis communties directly located along Energy East is primarily an export commitment at the U.N. climate summit lake bottoms, which makes it harder questions about the company’s safety the proposed pipeline’s route. pipeline. It’s estimated that 70 to 90 per in Paris to keep global warming below and more expensive to cleanup. practices. cent of the pipeline’s tar sands oil would 1.5 degrees Celsius. 7. North Bay be exported unre ned on tankers, much 3. Kenora Region and Winnipeg 5. Thunder Bay Energy East would threaten North Bay’s of it to heavy oil re neries in India, Energy East passes directly through The pipeline route runs north of Thunder source of drinking water, Trout Lake, with Europe and the United States. Energy Kenora and the Lake of the Woods Bay, creating the risk of a major tar sands the risk of tar sands oil spills. Oil spills East would dramatically increase tanker watershed. It also crosses Shoal Lake, the oil spill into Lake Superior. The Township anywhere in this region would threaten trac in the Bay of Fundy, which would primary source of Winnipeg’s drinking of Nipigon is particularly vulnerable. the health, environment and economy of threaten coastal ecosystems, sheries, water. A spill here could impact North Bay as well as the Mattawa River tourism and marine species with the risk hundreds of thousands of people, and system downstream. of oil spills. cause signi cant harm to the local economy.