PG Rally And March To Enbridge JRP Hearings
Prince George, BC – The Carrier Sekani Tribal Council and Sea to Sands Conservation Alliance have organized a rally and march to coincide with the return of the Northern Gateway Pipeline project hearings to Prince George.
The Joint Review Panel examining Enbridge’s proposed $5.5-billion dollar twin pipeline project through the region will be holding two days of community hearings in the city, starting at 1pm this afternoon at the Civic Centre. According to the National Energy Board’s information page on the JRP hearings, Wednesday and Thursday had also originally been set aside for local hearings, as well, but the number of registered participants can be fit into two days. (click here for a link to a live broadcast of the hearings)
Carrier Sekani Tribal Council Vice-Tribal Chief, Terry Teegee, says he expects a strong turn-out to this evening’s rally planned for 5pm at the Courthouse, with participants marching to the hearings at the Civic Centre. A similar event in September of 2010 saw between 500 and 600 people march in protest when the JRP was holding information sessions on the proposed project. Teegee says that rally was at noon and many had said at that time, they would have come if the rally were after work.
Teegee says the Tribal Council will not be presenting at the hearings because it could undermine a future legal challenge. "If it isn’t the CSTC, it will probably be one of our membership communities that will take this to court," he says. "Everybody has been talking about it."
However, Teegee says, members from the Sea to Sands Conservation Alliance will be presenting to the JRP panel afterwards.
Teegee says the rally is another opportunity to demonstrate opposition to the Northern Gateway Project and to raise concerns about the Harper Government’s Bill C-38, which the CSTC sees as undermining the whole process of democracy. "To us, what we’re seeing with the muzzling of environmental groups who speak up against mega-projects, as well as the changes in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ policy, the Fisheries Act, as well as changing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to limit it to two years."
He adds, "They’ve pretty much changed all the rules in the middle of this environmental assessment process of Enbridge."
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Christy Clark will live her last few days as premier with a fencepost wedged up her arse.
Premier Adrian Dix will fight Enbridge and Harper to the supreme court of Canada..
Stephen Harper is done, 3 more years and Harper fall into the depths of hell
criminalmind chill out you are going to blow a gasket, one government party is no different than another.
PG population around 72,000. Sure hope more than a hundred show up.
That`s good Seamutt, then you won`t be upset with Thomas Mulcair running Ottawa and Adrian Dix running British Columbia..
Glad you are on-board with the NDP, congratulations Seamutt for making the right moral decision.
Cheers
Mulclair???? really criminal? chia face is only an option for the “occupy” nutbars.
its a done deal guys, The deal was done when the Fed’s said it was OK to bring the tankers in.
Wake up and smell the oil, its going to be in a river near you.
Democracy, well…. Democracy is we get to vote every several years. That’s it. We hand over everything to the elected officials. The government controls it all.
Don’t worry, the EAP will get approved, the pipe line will be installed in one year, starting at 20 different locations, under military guard. It will be declared a national investment, similar to how the railways got there special rights…..
27% of every dollar in our canadian economy is oil related. I am pretty sure, at least 50% of the protestors drove down there in a private vehicle. I am pretty sure 75% of the protestors own a gas sucking internal combustion engine vehicle.
Hypocrites, they are all hypocrites.
This notion that anybody who drives a car is a hypocrite for criticizing Enbridge is rediculous and smacks of typical reactionary tactics of trying to dictate the terms of the debate so only their side of the story has credibility. It’s like saying that you can’t criticize McDonalds over their practice of selling unhealthy foods in a manner that taregts children because you haven’t given up eating.
Just because someone is opposing the pipeline plans, doesn’t mean they oppose oil. Bitumen is very hard on pipelines, its heavy making cleanup difficult if not close to impossible. Then we have Enbridge. Let’s look at their track record and spill history. Ouch! Rumor has it they will not be able to get enough insurance to cover costs, so who will foot the bill? I’m guessing you and I.
Many Albertans also would like to see the bitumen processed in Canada. While its not ideal, piping the finished product would be more desirable than piping bitumen. Though it would still put some of the few remaining productive,clean watersheds in jeopardy.
Canada needs to be an innovator, to support science and R&D, not to just ship out our resources. If we had the political will, this great country could be even greater. But alas, the powers that be want no part of that. And I fear the colour of the political stripes matter not.
A pipeline is the most efficient means to suck the resources out of the country with the least possible inventment. Refineries and jobs go to other countries.
This is a sellout at the expense of the next generation.
What do we do, when we run out of oil? There is technology out there for renewable energy.
If the cost of vehicles, that use clean energy were not priced so impossibly high, people would prefer them. The huge greedy oil and gas company’s, will fight to the last ditch, to keep renewable energy out.
I am so damned sick, of the gasoline price gouging in BC. Our hydro rates way up because, Campbell thieved and sold our BC rivers. Heat gone up. Food costs through the roof. The HST scam, played on the BC people. by Campbell and Harper.
Harper and Campbell have done enough dirty deeds to BC. We will fight to the last ditch, to save BC from Harper and Enbridge’s gross greed.
“Canada needs to be an innovator, to support science and R&D, not to just ship out our resources. If we had the political will, this great country could be even greater”
Corporate greed with the backing of our own Govt dictates the little people of Asia will do all the thinking and physical work required for peanuts to make the overseers richer.
What do we do when we run out of oil? Same thing we do when we run out of trees. Just ask some working folks in Chetwynd.
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