“There’s been more oil spilled than [Kinder Morgan] is saying,” pipeline critic David Ellis said last November. A March 2014 document reveals there was, in fact, quadruple the amount that the company initially reported to have spilled at Coquihalla Canyon. With a record salmon run predicted for this year, Ellis wonders if the company and the NEB is doing all it can to prevent future spills.

After persistently prodding the National Energy Board, pipeline critic David Ellis finally got a report on Kinder Morgan’s two oil spills along the Trans Mountain pipeline route. The spills happened last June, and had temporarily shut the pipeline down for investigation.

What he saw on page two of Kinder Morgan’s Engineering Assessment floored him. It stated that instead of just 20-25 barrels spilled near the Coquihalla Canyon, the pipeline leaked well over quadruple that amount.

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