{"id":1308,"date":"2013-04-24T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2021-12-06T06:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:35:29","slug":"the-rainbow-spill-a-case-of-crime-and-no-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/publication\/1308\/the-rainbow-spill-a-case-of-crime-and-no-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainbow Spill: A Case of Crime and (No) Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2011 Rainbow pipeline spill near the Lubicon Cree community of Little Buffalo was one of the largest in Alberta\u2019s history. No charges were laid by the provincial government or the regulator, in spite of an investigation that found that the crack that caused the leak should have been detected and that the pipeline company restarted the leaking pipeline three times over an eight hour period because it prioritized profits over safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowPipelineSpill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill-232x300.png\" alt=\"The Rainbow Spill: A Case of Crime and (No) Punishment\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill-768x993.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill-792x1024.png 792w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill-263x340.png 263w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowSpill.png 815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>This report uses confidential internal government documents obtained by Greenpeace Canada under Freedom of Information legislation to look at what was happening behind the scenes. It shows how the Alberta government puts the oil company interests ahead of protecting local communities or the environment, and makes recommendations for change.<\/p>\n<p>Update: 24 hours after an advance copy of this report was sent to the Alberta government, the Environment Minister laid charges against the pipeline company Plains Midstream in connection to this spill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/RainbowPipelineSpill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the report [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-1056 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Rainbow Warrior Open Boat in Melbourne\" title=\"Rainbow Warrior Open Boat in Melbourne\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Greenpeace is a people-powered, science-based, and action-oriented organization that does not take money from corporations or governments. This means we rely on individual donations from generous people like you to carry out our work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Take action\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Rainbow pipeline spill near the Lubicon Cree community of Little Buffalo was one of the largest in Alberta\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,32],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-oil","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51488,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/51488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}