Raise the Hammer

It is interesting to me how little research you did and that you excepted Mr. Bolenbaugh at his word without taking Enbridge's side of the story. If you had done some research you find the this "whistle blower" was fired for misconduct prior to "blowing the whistle" on Enbridge. This would make you headline somewhat outrageuos. A look into the claims by Mr Bolenbaugh about hiding this spill by looking at information supplied by Enbridge to the EPA would show that sample results taken from areas selected by the EPA including the depositional areas that Mr. Bolenbaugh uses for his examples are below back ground samples taken both upstream and downstream of the release. Additionally the areas that Mr. Bolenbaugh chooses to focus on are areas of significant ecological value. The techniques that he would like to see used in these areas may remove any residual impacts in the area but the damage that these invasive techniques would cause to the ecology of the area would bestroy thier ecological suitablitity for the next 20 years. A look back at past significant spills of heavy oils such as the Exxon release will show that in areas where these highly invasive techniques were utilized there is little to no recovery of the ecology to date versus areas where minimially invasive techniques were used that show full or near to full recovery.

Taking the word of a disgruntled ex employee with a documented questionable backgound and no significant exepertise without doing any research on the subject is highly questionable and severly skewed journalism.

oh, come on, 'fired for misconduct' by an 'employer' who practices corporate misconduct is cause to award the employee a medal and a million$ damage award.

Well said. It is becoming the norm where extremists get a free ride from journalists because shock value sells. I would like to see more unbiased journalism, and more consumers of information demand this kind of unbiased journalism, because frankly I'm getting sick of hearing only one side of the story.

Corporate profiteering extremists have been getting a free ride from corporate mass media from decades. Only by the efforts of conscientious citizens made with great personal sacrifice have we been able to discover the truth and stop evil in its tracks.

Nice way to bring up are young ones ....corperate in privet sectors and public are all corruped and they wonder why some pls donèt pay there taxes because of these things

Bolenbaugh never worked for Enbridge. He worked for SET Environmental. He's lying when he says he worked for Enbridge. He's also a registered sex offender--he went to jail for having sex with two underage girls. He's hardly an oil spill clean up expert, he's an ex-con who has a sordid history, a hard time with telling the truth and a hard time getting and keeping a job.

Well, it's obvious that some folks really don't like the guy...

With a little research, he honestly sounds like a bit of a blowhard, but most of his major allegations about the cleanup have been backed up by some pretty serious investigations.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but wanted to say something. The author of this article, Maggie Hughes, has just passed away. She was an old friend and one of the most committed activists/journalists I've ever met. She'll be sorely missed by a lot of people.

RIP Maggie Hughes.