5 Feet of Fury

Northern Gateway pipeline hearings sabotaged by Chicago-style politics

What next? Dead people?

“Some ‘intervenors’ were signed up without their knowledge”:

What exactly does a woman from Santos, Brazil, know or care about the Northern Gateway proposed pipeline project? It turns out, nothing at all.

In fact, even though Ines Gudic is listed to give an oral presentation to the panel reviewing the proposed Enbridge pipeline from Alberta to B.C., she says she knows nothing about it and never signed up to speak.

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.

“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.

That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.