Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish territories
Day of actions against Pacific Trails Pipeline
Noise Demo & Info Picket at Apache Pipeline Products office
12:00pm
Friday December 9 2011
Noise demo and info picket at Apache Pipeline Products' office.
(40% stakeholder in Pacific Trails Pipeline)
Come together in solidarity with Wet'seweten Communities fighting the Pacific Trails Pipeline.
Excerpts below from In BC, Pipes Spell Double Trouble by Dawn Paley:
The Kitimat Summit Lake (KSL) gas pipeline, also called the Pacific Trails Pipeline, is of emerging concern to Wet'suwet'en land defenders and local residents. If built, this pipeline would connect to an existing Westcoast Energy Pipeline at Summit Lake, near the geographical centre of BC, and cut west to Kitimat.
At the western end of the proposed pipeline would sit a brand new Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) port, which is being built by a handful of former Duke Energy insiders on Haisla reserve land at Bish Cove, an area described in media reports as pristine beachfront. First planned as a pipeline to supply the tar sands with natural gas, the project has since been modified to provide an export channel for the emerging shale gas bonanza in northeastern BC and Alberta.
The proposed KSL pipeline would be almost 500 kilometres in length and 91 centimetres in diameter; it would also be flanked by an 18-metre right-of-way on each side. The project has quietly received approval from both the federal and provincial governments, and is awaiting the final nod from the National Energy Board, the federal agency that oversees oil and gas projects in Canada.
In February 2011, Vancouver-based Pacific Northern Gas sold its stake in the KSL project to the Houston-based Apache Corporation and EOG Resources (formerly Enron).
Unlike in the case of the Enbridge pipeline, elected officials from the 14 First Nations along the KSL pipeline path have already agreed to the project. Some have received incentives, including employment for band members, for agreeing to the project.
The cumulative impacts of the infrastructure connected to the KSL pipeline will be enormous, and range from LNG terminal and storage areas near the coast to the massive shale gas projects in northeastern BC, which are slated to use a significant portion of the energy generated by the proposed Site-C dam. A recent study from Cornell University indicates that natural gas extracted from shale through a process known as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) may actually release more carbon emissions in the long run than coal or oil.
Oil and gas pipelines running side by side also make a dangerous combination.
East of the Morice River, lying to the west of the town of Smithers, BC, a significant distance separates the proposed route of the Enbridge oil pipeline and that of KSL. However, closer to the river as well as to the west, the proposed pipelines would run side by side.
More info
Oil Gateway
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/video/oil-gateway/8162
In BC, Pipes Spell Double Trouble
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3990
Aboriginal groups in Canada challenge tar sands projects
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/audio/aboriginal-groups-canada-challenge-t...
Grassroots Gathering to Resist Proposed Pipelines
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/grassroots-gathering-resist-proposed...
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