Enbridge: bringing pipelines, tankers and oil spills to an ecosystem near you
The Northern Gateway project invites the world’s largest supertankers and dirtiest oil to the unspoiled waters of coastal British Columbia.
It raises serious ecological concerns at global, regional and local scales.
In addition to introducing the likelihood of devastating oil spills in a place that hosts some of world’s most ecologically valuable and unique ecosystems, Enbridge’s pipelines and tankers provide a key commercial outlet for tar sands oil, exacerbating the staggering impact from this massive industrial development and excelerating Canada’s notorious contribution to atmospheric carbon and climate change.
Take Action
1. Get informed
- Read Raincoast editorials and opinion pieces on Northern Gateway
- Read Raincoast’s flagship report with photos, maps and popular science What’s at Stake: The cost of oil on BC’s priceless coast
- Learn about Raincoast’s scientific research behind reports like What’s at Stake
- Watch and read the links below on the impacts of tar sands oil.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/pipelines and tankers
2. Speak out
- Register to make an oral statement to Canada’s National Energy Board Joint Review Panel overseeing the Enbridge Northern Gateway hearings, which begin in 2012
- Write British Columbia Premier Christy Clark click here for draft letter and email or email the premier directly at premier@gov.bc.ca
- Write Letters to the Editor of Canadian newspapers
The Globe and Mail: Letters@globeandmail.com
Vancouver Sun: sunletters@vancouversun.com
Victoria Times Colonist: letters@timescolonist.com
Vancouver Province: provletters@theprovince.com
Calgary Herald: letters@calgaryherald.com
Edmonton Journal: letters@edmontonjournal.com
3. Share your information
Post and share information about up coming events and other activities on Raincoast’s facebook page.
4. Show up
Actions and activities that question the logic and oppose the destruction and risk that tar sands oil and Northern Gateway present locally, nationally and internationally are ocurring with more frequency and intensity. Our facebook page provides information and links in addition to the ones below.
- http://vimeo.com/Josh Fox
Together, we can stop Enbridge.
Saying “No” to Enbridge is saying “Yes” to:
- protection of water, air, and soil resources that provide food and energy to all life,
- healthy ecosystems that sustain wildlife, local communities and local economies
- protecting fish and wildlife resources that are critically important to Canadians for intrinsic, ecological, cultural and economic reasons,
- meeting our domestic energy needs through low carbon alternatives,
- reducing Canada’s contribution to global carbon emissions and climate change,
- rejecting corporate profit at the cost of public resource destruction.
