Burrard Inlet First Nation calls for renewables

Burrard Inlet First Nation calls for renewables: "Faced with a six-fold increase in oil tanker traffic in their Burrard Inlet home if Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion project goes ahead, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation says it's time for Metro Vancouver and British Columbia to get serious about alternative energy."

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Enbridge Northern Gateway a threat to First Nations food sources - Sarah Klain

CHANS Lab Views: Clam Gardens and Clean Energy, Sarah Klain Oral Statement to Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel: "An oil spill would have disastrous consequences on the type of clams I studied and so many other food sources in this region. Although the chance of a catastrophic spill is disputed, I am certain that approving this pipeline will destroy or at least damage government-to-government relationships with Coastal First Nations. When I spent time in Bella Bella, the Heiltsuk’s vehement protest of the Enbridge pipeline and associated tanker traffic was highly prominent throughout their community. If this pipeline goes through, I fear violent protest is inevitable. This pipeline threatens to ruin decades of fraught negotiations and relationship building between First Nations and various levels of Canadian government."

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'Fractured Land' depicts First Nations' fight to save land from oil and gas industry | The Vancouver Observer

'Fractured Land' depicts First Nations' fight to save land from oil and gas industry | The Vancouver Observer: "On the outside, northern British Columbia is a beautiful place. Look closer, though, and a different world appears. A much darker world. One of drilling, mercury-infested water and cancer. A place where people and land suffer the same. A place that disintegrates with each fire explosion in the starless night sky. A place they call Fractured Land."

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Thousands jeer Northern Gateway hearings in Vancouver - British Columbia - CBC News

The closed hearings drew protesters by the thousands in Vancouver Monday. (CBC)

Thousands jeer Northern Gateway hearings in Vancouver - British Columbia - CBC News: "Thousands of people gathered during a rare Vancouver snowfall to mark the start of community hearings on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

Opponents of the project were bolstered on Monday by the nationwide Idle No More campaign, which brought First Nations from as far as the Haisla Nation on the North Coast, near the would-be tanker port of Kitimat, B.C."

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Pipeline pain. Things that go away with #freetransit

New Oil Sands Pipeline Plan Would Dramatically Increase Carbon Emissions | The Energy Collective: "The annual flow of carbon through the proposed twinning project and the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project (presuming full operation) would dwarf greenhouse gas emissions from British Columbia, an issue presented here in the past."

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