ENERGY EAST AND OTHER OIL PIPELINE PROJECTS; TRANSCANADA PIPELINES INC. AND THEIR DISMISSAL OF ENGINEER EVAN VOKES - FOR DOING HIS JOB RIGHT.
May 26th, 2015
Thurs. June 4th 2015: minor updates/corrections
and link to MS Excel file as noted below.
Hi everyone
I sent some info
about the situation concerning Energy East etc. to
laurette.jones@rcmp-grc.gc.ca whom I had met outside the Prime Minister's
office in Ottawa, at the SAA Mayday demo on Fri. May 1st.,
along with Lynda
Kitchikeesic.
I also sent the info
to Lynda Kitchikeesic - who is a First Nations organiser concerned about the
missing and murdered aboriginal women (over 1000 of them, to date), among other
things.
She also spoke at
the demonstration about some of the objections to large oil pipeline projects
such as Energy East.
In my view it is
quite clear that we have a real problem here with certain assumptions about
pipeline safety in the RCMP's own "CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENCE
ASSESSMENT” and in
particular
"Criminal Threats to the Canadian Petroleum Industry", dated January
24th 2014.
The said
assumptions are being undermined by TransCanada Pipelines Inc.'s conduct in
respect of quality of construction work (for instance, pipeline welds) and
onsite inspections during
construction not
being properly done, notably on Keystone Phase 1. The same company is also responsible for the
Keystone XL and Energy East oil pipeline projects. They also dismissed
metallurgical
engineer Evan Vokes without cause for doing the job that he was legally obliged
to do, in which he had major responsibilities for pipeline safety. I have
everything documented.
Energy East should
not be allowed to proceed until this situation is resolved, even if there are
satisfactory answers to all the other objections to the project raised by the
various groups.
I also raised the
question with Laurette Jones (RCMP) about how we might wake up the mainstream
media to this. It seems to me that TransCanada Pipelines Inc. are hoping that
this will escape
everybody's
notice because of the total absence of reporting in the mainstream media, except
for two reports by the CBC (who, as we all know, are having extremely serious
problems).
TransCanada
Pipelines Inc.'s whole approach to this has been un-professional, obfuscatory
and based on corporate bullying of certain people - in the name of cost-cutting
and protecting the
reputations of
certain of their managers who have been playing stupid office politics all
along,in the hope of covering themselves up. The Harper Government is also
directly involved in the
obfuscation referred
to, concerning pipeline safety.
I have an MS Excel file detailing about 70 reports concerning the Evan Vokes affair and Transcanada Pipelines Inc. . Click HERE
This also contains a few items about “whistleblowers” in general who report corporate wrongdoing in Canada, and the related problems of mis-informed or dis-informed social prejudices
which cause their
lives and careers to be ruined for doing their jobs right.
In that respect,
I have to say that Canada is a “bloody disgrace” that must clean up its act -
and stop covering things up by means of office politics, feeding “unlimited”
money to stupid bureaucrats
and poor-quality
lawyers for the purpose, manipulating the mainstream media to arbitrarily
suppress information about what is going on, and instigating (or threatening to
instigate) SLAPP type
lawsuits alleging
“libel” as part of this stupid scheme for covering up incompetence and
corruption in business.
The Council of
Canadians, among other groups, has applied to intervene in the
currently-ongoing National Energy Board review of the Energy East project. The
Council of Canadians has also hired Evan Vokes to assist them with
reviewing “...the
engineering design and integrity of the project....”. When I visited their Ottawa offices on Monday June 1st, they were
still awaiting approval as intervenors in this National Energy Board review of
Energy East, and were
unable to say when
this might happen.
At this point,
whether the National Energy Board listens and acts accordingly remains to be
seen.
See my new website
at www.exposethismuck.com/dispoints.htm
Also, please see:-
Notice how Jon
Pitcher, TransCanada's community relations lead for Ontario, completely
"glosses over" the issue of TransCanada's record of shoddy
construction on Keystone Phase 1 and
Keystone XL and
TransCanada's treatment of Evan Vokes. It's as if these un-resolved issues
don't even exist. I have suggested to PEO/OSPE that PEO/OSPE might want to take
an official position
on the Energy East
project, and doing this by lending official support to the Council of Canadians
who have hired Evan Vokes to assist the former in their INTERVENTION in the
currently-ongoing
N.E.B. review of the
project.
As far as I'm
concerned, TransCanada Pipelines Inc.'s (TCPL) attitude in all this is that
everybody but themselves is a MORON, so that TCPL think they are free to behave
like MORONS based on
the assumption that
the rest of us - including Ontario's professional engineers - are ALL MORONS
who "...have no idea what is going on and don't know what (they) are
talking about..." .
Also, please see:- https://www.canadianclubottawa.ca/event/francois-poirier/
I posted a comment
in response to this shortly after that Canadian Club event on February 2nd,
suggesting that Francois Poirier would be doing himself and everyone else a
favour by asking
TCPL 's C.E.O., Russ
Girling, what he has to say about Evan Vokes and the issues around bad
workmanship and improperly managed onsite inspections during construction.
I saved that
Canadian Club web page page as a .pdf file, for reference. Some idiot will
doubtless attempt to make it appear that I'm lying. Business in Canada
STINKS "TO HIGH HEAVEN",
as far as I'm concerned, for reasons which by now ARE PERFECTLY CLEAR AND BEYOND DISPUTE.
Thus far I see no
sign of Francois Poirier or the Canadian Club doing anything about my
suggestion. So did he or the Canadian Club say anything to Russ Girling or
not?
WHAT IS GOING
ON?
For obvious reasons,
TCPL and everybody connected with them else are just asking for trouble - if
these behaviours involving obfuscation, cover-ups and presuming everybody but
themselves to be
morons, are allowed
to continue.
The behaviours
involved constitute two of the many forms of corruption in business, and two of
the ways in which Canada encourages corrupt companies. They also constitute direct
threats to the
safety of the
public.
I spoke to
Laurette Jones at the RCMP today about getting some mainstream media exposure
for this. She suggested contacting the CBC and/or CTV - but admitted that even
this can be difficult, for reasons that we all know.
But I think we
still have to try; in terms of the media, I’ve been told that federal M.P.’s
still rely exclusively on the mainstream media and pay no attention to social
media or the “alternative” media.
Federal M.P.’s, as far as I know, still rely on the
daily newspaper clipping service at the House of Commons, called “Quorum”, for
their information. And if the information they get is controlled in the wrong
way, for the wrong reasons, and by the wrong sort of people controlling all the
mainstream news outlets, then we’ve got a problem. A BIG problem.
Robert T. Chisholm -
Associate Member, OSPE.