Enbridge wants to ship diluted bitumen from the tar sands through a forty-year-old pipeline that crosses through hundreds of watersheds and communities from Sarnia to Montreal - right through the heart of the Great Lakes. They want us to risk our drinking water so that they can make millions in profits. Enbridge recently caused two disasters shipping tar sands bitumen through similar old pipelines in the United States. In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline ruptured in Michigan, flooding the Kalamazoo River with 3.8 million litres of diluted bitumen from the tar sands. Three years and close to $1 billion later the river is still polluted. Less than two months after the Kalamazoo disaster, an Enbridge pipeline ruptured in Illinois spilling another 1.2 million litres of diluted bitumen from the tar sands.

Do you trust Enbridge when they say they are confident that their forty-year-old Line 9 pipeline will not rupture and spill millions of litres of diluted bitumen into the Great Lakes?

When tar sands pipelines spill, they cause extensive environmental damage that is impossible to clean up. Tar sands crude, known as bitumen, is too thick and gooey to flow through pipelines, so toxic chemicals and solvents like benzene are added to make it thin enough to flow. When this diluted bitumen or "dilbit" is spilled, the solvents evaporate into a toxic vapour cloud over the spill area and the bitumen gets thick and gooey again - coating everything in its path and sinking to the bottoms of rivers and lakes.

YOU CAN STOP ENBRIDGE!

Enbridge will make millions in profit by shipping dilbit through Line 9 but not nearly as much as they make from selling natural gas to their two million customers in the Great Lakes region. Sign this declaration telling Enbridge that you will choose a different natural gas provider if they pump dilbit through Line 9. Pass it around to your friends and neighbours. Share it on Facebook and Twitter.