Robert Chisholm shared Joel
Harden's video.
TransCanada Pipelines Inc.'s action at this event was a
disgrace. What they did amounted to attempting to enlist the help of the police
in enforcing a form of corruption in business so that the company could cover
up for lax safety standards and faulty workmanship, among other things. That
was in late 2013. Since then (in March 2015), the Council of Canadians
announced it is hiring Evan Vokes to assist them with their INTERVENTION in the
National Energy Board's (N.E.B.) review of the Energy East project, specifically
concerning "..the engineering design and integrity of the Project".
This is one of the 16 subject areas included in the currently-ongoing N.E.B.
review of the project. Please see also my webpage concerning TransCanada
Pipelines Inc. record of allowing faulty workmanship and improperly-conducted
onsite inspections during construction.
Reference: “WHISTLEBLOWING” IN CANADA – AND ATTEMPTS TO
SILENCE SOMEONE WHO EXPOSED BAD WELDS AND OTHER BAD WORK ON KEYSTONE AND OTHER
OIL AND GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS.
http://www.unempgeninfo.com/canada/whistle/FAIR.htm
I myself only found out all about what was going on
involving Evan Vokes and TransCanada Pipelines Inc. shortly after the event
shown in this video. That, in turn, happened purely by chance after I posted a
comment in response to Linden MacIntyre's online article titled "Why
Whistleblowers are Crucial to Democracy" and included one of my main
website URL's. Evan Vokes emailed a response to me; at that time I'd never even
heard of him. Then purely out of curiosity as to who evan.vokes was and is, I
ran a Google query. And that, for me, is "..when the bomb went
off..." .
See also:-
http://www.cbc.ca/…/why-whistleblowers-are-crucial-for-demo…
Kurtis Benedetti, the man talking to the police in this
video, likely knew all about Evan Vokes long before I myself did. I know him
personally, albeit not very well. The fact that I found out about this
relatively late reflects very badly on Canada's mainstream media for not
reporting widely what was going on. It points to a very mis-guided lack of
support even for the professionalism that professional engineers are expected
to demonstrate constantly in order carry out their legal mandate to protect the
public. That in turn points to professional engineers in Canada having an
unjustifiably low social status such that mis-guided, inappropriate and
dangerous office politics - carried on by incompetent and politically-motivated
members of management in large corporations - is allowed to over-rule
considerations of public safety. It's a "black mark" for Canada and
its mainstream media if they cannot and will not disseminate information like this
more widely than actually occurred in this case. It should have been
"front-page headlines" in ALL the newspapers, both online and print
editions, and in ALL other mainstream news media. But of course we have another
huge problem in Canada where - based on the corrupting influence of money,
mis-guided social prejudices, irresponsible and stupid office politics, and
lack of effective legal protection of "whistleblowers" who expose
corporate wrongdoing - these people are effectively silenced and have their
lives destroyed. All I can say with reference to the foregoing is that Canada
as a community is rotten and behaves like a stupid office asshole in the name
of protecting its big business pigs when they wish to behave corruptly and then
cover it all up. Anybody wanting to argue with me over the last point had
better produce some very convincing proof that Canada is a better place than
I've just indicated.
See also my online article about hidden corruption at
SNC-Lavalin Inc. that was carried on at my expense.
Reference:-
www.exposethismuck.com/SAMART1.htm
Robert Chisholm
As far as I can see, the only times that the
situation involving Evan Vokes and TransCanada Pipelines Inc. has been reported
in the mainstream Canadian media have been the following two CBC News reports:-
17-Oct-2012: "Whistleblower forced
investigation of TransCanada Pipelines"
Reference: http://www.cbc.ca/.../whistleblower-forced-investigation...
and
25-Feb-2014: "TransCanada whistleblower's
complaints validated by NEB"
Reference: http://www.cbc.ca/.../transcanada-whistleblower-s...
Apart from other things, even Evan Vokes' testimony
before the Senate on June 6th 2013 wasn't reported at all in ANY of the
mainstream Canadian media (not even the CBC).
6-Jun-2013: THE STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY,
THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES - EVIDENCE
Reference: http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/411%5CENEV/50221-E.HTM
So to explain why I wasn't aware of what was going
on before this incident between Kurtis Benedetti and the police, I think I
missed that CBC News report of October 17th 2012.
As a result of a recent Google search, I now have a
database of almost 70 reports about the subject matter referred to; the three
reports just referred to are among them.
Whistleblower forced investigation of TransCanada Pipelines A
former TransCanada engineer says he reported its... cbc.ca
