An open message to the international corporate globalization business fascists:

We don’t want diluted bitumen pipelines, we don’t want conventional oil pipelines, we don’t want natural gas pipelines, we don’t want conventional oil and gas exploration, we don’t want un-conventional oil and gas exploration, we don’t want conventional hydroelectric development, we don’t want run-of-the-river hydroelectric development, we don’t want base metal mines, we don’t want rare earth mines, we don’t want coal mines, we don’t want precious metals mines, we don’t want rock quarries, we don’t want gravel quarries, we don’t want railway expansion, we don’t want highway expansion, we don’t want airport expansion, we don’t want residential land development, we don’t want industrial forestry, we don’t want corporate farms, we don’t want fish farming, we don’t want managed wildlife stocks and we don’t want, er, bad things.

What we do want is one of the highest standards of living on the planet, high paying jobs for both genders, modern and technogically advanced hospitals, schools and other public facilities, opportunity for our youth and a future for all of us.

So Mr. Bad Man international corporate globalization business fascist: What are you going to do for us?

150 people out of 80,000, wow that will show them. Looks like they where all wearing clothes made out of oil.

Right on, rocky.

You forgot we don’t want the Liberals or the NDP!

Whatever seamutt. Just because folks don’t want tarsands bitumen piped through BC by a proven incompetent company doesn’t make them hypocrites.

No protesters on the east coast too? Maybe if these “useful idiots” are successful here they can expand to the east coast and St. Lawrence Seaway and all their dangerous tankers and such. Put a moratorium on Newfoundland’s off shore drilling too and make it a have-not province again. Canada’s Atlantic coast is just as valuable as ours out here, isn’t it?

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Canada, Enablers of Stagnation

We had a chance to change the world but Canada chose to enable stagnation and steal future generation`s birth rite!

As a country we are enormously wealthy, most of the world`s fresh water, a diverse population that`s relatively well educated, thousands of miles of open prairies capable of growing huge quantities of food, we have world famous boreal forests, rain forests inhabited with spotted owls, spirit bears and species still undiscovered, we`re a nation blessed with pristine coastlines that are home to wild salmon, Orca, oysters and countless other delicacies of the sea, our air is still invigoratingly fresh,

As present day caretakers of this great Nation isn`t our number one duty to pass on a country as clean or cleaner than the one we found.

For after all, isn`t that all we really are, caretakers, thousands of generations of civilization and Canada is prepared to roll the dice, in a nano second of earth`s time Canada`s current caretakers are prepared to burn and exhaust every hydro carbon we have, a grand short sighted experiment with the potential to melt the world and possibly bring mankind itself to extinction.

Change must happen, it`s inevitable for hydro carbons are finite, continued expansion and growth is unsustainable, a folly of futility or stampeding buffaloes heading for the cliff, take your pick but either way the ending will be the same, will we be a country with pipelines zig-zagging every which way, Kinder Morgan proposes a double pipe to Burnaby plus a line North, Enbridge wants a Northern pipeline crossing 1200 streams and rivers and plans are for pipelines through the arctic and let`s don`t forget the XL Keystone pipeline south to Texas, here in British Columbia our temporary caretakers want 5 LNG(Liquified Natural gas) plants that will require almost as much electrical energy to operate as the energy we 4 million inhabitants use.

5 LNG plants all needing their own pipelines, 5 LNG plants selling our finite gas as fast as they can would exhaust all our natural gas in 3 decades, what kind of educated thinking society would steal every hydro carbon from future generations before they`re even born, tales of peak oil and if true paints a scenario where if the tar sands were to supply the world`s oil we would need an additional 50 pipelines.

Solid banks, modern cities, educated work-force, many world innovations and medical breakthroughs routinely come from Canada, we have a vast under used manufacturing sector that`s capable of producing the smartest products in the world, we are a civil society that`s already extremely wealthy in comparison to most of the world…..

We are country that has no reason to roll the dice with the future,

My caretaker tells the world that there will be no tar sand expansion, no destruction of groundwater, a wise caretaker tells the world that Canada is moving towards the future and will only maintain current hydro carbon extraction levels and what better way to drive innovation and change the direction of mankind then by removing the crutch of supply, we aren`t broke, we are extremely wealthy so the need for unabated exploitation of finite raw resources isn`t required and my gawd how selfish can we be.

Canada has a chance to drive change, a chance to be a leader, day after day our current caretakers tell us we are the wealthiest nation in the world and if true there is no urgency, no need to panic, no need to spend our finite resources in a nano secoond of time.

We owe it to Stephen Harper`s grandchildren to preserve and protect the water, the air, the land, we owe it to everyone`s children to safeguard the future.

Canada could have forced the world headlong into the 22nd century but unfortunately Stephen Harper, Canada`s current caretaker has chosen to sellout all future generations for the sole purpose of greed, unabated greed driven by oil companies, a caretaker that runs tar sand promotional ads that show pristine eco-systems in a sick n twisted campaign designed to distort and deny, a caretaker hell bent on muzzling scientists and voices of reason while hiding damning evidence of a rapidly deteriorating environment and the only conclusion any reasonable person can come to is..

Greed, power and mental sickness have inflicted the minds of Canada`s current caretakers and without immediate intervention the sickness will prevail to the detriment and possible extinction of mankind itself.

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

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577,The Unluckiest Number,Ten years out./ The Enbridge pipeline disaster

The 10 year anniversary next month of the Bengal Lion Star tragedy and I had to come to ground zero to see for myself, perhaps it was a mistake to come here, from what I have seen i`m way too angry to cry and too sad for fury, in fact I almost have that peaceful easy feeling.

How I miss my dad`s analytical explanation and mom`s hope springs eternal talks, yet I fear that neither parent could explain away this tragedy, 10 years later, 10 years of black death extending it`s reach.

Looking around by boat off Banks island, one mile from ground zero the feeling is of the surreal, trees are still green but any ocean life or bird activity is eerily quiet, no salmon fry swimming , no squawking gulls just silence, for tens of miles in every direction the great kelp forests are gone, who gave us permission to gamble and lose what we didn`t own and what we could never replace, little Fish lake was a horrid environmental mistake, imagine deliberately destroying a huge natural watershed for trinkets of gold, thousands of dead migrating birds, a poisonous lake devoid of life, how many species of frogs, insects still get near or in the lake only to perish or leave half dead, but as horrible as the deliberate execution of little Fish lake was, the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill off Banks island in Hecate Strait is beyond compare, how is it that my only terms of reference in attempting to describe this site is that of dead zones, in a way its very peaceful, no eternal battle for life here, those days are long gone.

Only if I could turn back the clock, why did it happen, the Bengal Lion Star should not have went out, a deep pacific low moving in, was the Captain pressured to leave, why why why, even with two large commercial tug boats assisting wasn`t going to stop the wreck, maybe if there were extra support tugs who knows but when lead tug boat Kitimat queen capsized in heavy seas nothing was going to stop the massive oil carrier from grounding on White jagged rocks that stormy (March 14, 2016) night, 30 to 40 foot high waves capped with fury pounded the Bengal Lion Star on unforgiving rocks, section after section burst like watermelons, spewing millions of gallons of tar sand oil, the 3rd largest oil spill in the world, maybe if the oil containment teams had gotten out here sooner but with storm force winds blowing for 2 days along with extreme high and low tides, my god, oil sprayed the shore line high on exposed rocks and layered thick into the lowest tidal zones, mountains of Alberta bitumen flowing in deep water, who could imagine the oil and heavy sheen would have spread 50 miles in different directions over 2 days, coves, bays, narrow channels coated in black death, as far as I can look in any direction this paradise is dead, who knows what the bird count will ultimately be, millions of direct bird deaths with millions more that died in subsequent migrations, birds all along the coast found dead, birds with clear signs of contact with heavy oil, the natural engine in this migration route blasted with Alberta crude, indeed, the scale of the Bengal Lion Star oil spill can`t be measured in millions of oiled birds or the 40 distinct salmon runs that were decimated and or all of British Columbia`s wild salmon teetering on extinction, the sea lions, otters, coastal bears, eagles, ferrets, no salmon spawning led one extinction into another, we broke nature`s bond, too many dead for one`s heart to count, oil stained carcasses feed other animals that ultimately die too, black oil`s death-grip reaches on and on, only with time, generational time, perhaps millenia before this area recovers, can it recover, and for what, to spill another tanker of crude.

I don`t what is harder to take, the fragile existence of a few northern runs of salmon and southern Sockeye, it`s almost like the cycle of life has been thrown out, this large swath of nature, thousands of square miles destroyed forever, well at least for my lifetime, perhaps 6 or 7 generations before this area will become fertile again but with continued oil tanker traffic when will black death strike again, even if the shell fish recover, even if herring spawns again, the Orca will never be seen again, the birthing females were first to die then the small adolescent Orca perished, 2 adult males are all that is left of the species, maybe mankind should have figured out how to start a new Orca pod before destroying the only one we had, unique species and west coast wildlife gone, in a blink, for all time, gone, why didn`t we learn from the Valdez disaster, there is no going back, First Nations have mourned, the northern and island tourism industry has been decimated, maybe I should have fought harder against the National review 15 years ago, 10 years out from the disaster and Hecate Strait still lay mortally wounded, you can still smell crude oil, I can only think of Charlton Heston`s Planet of the Apes movie when he sees New York`s Statue of Liberty and realizes that it was mankind itself that burned mother nature, this area is no longer worth fighting for, top scientists are mostly in agreement that outside of decades of time there is nothing on scale that can be done to remediate the damage.

It appears the only ones left fighting about the Bengal Lion Star are the litigants, where have we seen this picture before, the Exxon Valdez law suit still lingers unpaid(40 years later), the Liberian registered Bengal Lion Star oil tanker had but minimum insurance, $200 million dollars yet the insurance has been contested, Bengal Lion Star hadn`t paid premiums in 2 years, Honshu commercial carrier insurance company have claimed bankruptcy, between the Province and Ottawa more than $14.9 billion has been spent on clean-up and species mitigation, First Nations, affected business`s and local town`s folk have law suits filed worth more than $15 billion dollars, everyone suing and litigating for compensation on something no one can return, Enbridge pipeline inc washes their hands of any responsibility, Shell, Exxon Mobile and the Chinese petroleum company are all pointing fingers at each other, owners of the Bengal Lion Star blame the escort tug company, tug company blames act of god and file for bankruptcy, how long will these trials go on and who will ultimately pay, what price, what price to return nature to the way it was, all this pain to secure dirty Alberta crude oil to China, oil use falls for the last 7 years, a dying product needing desperate tyrants, we sold out nature on British Columbia`s wild west coast for a handful of pesos, how can ancient dregs of plants take so much away from present and future life cycles, I can`t shed tears anymore, my life, my personal battles, millions of wasted words warning of potential harm or should I say risk management, I `m too old to repeat the warnings and too tired to muster passion, the battle for Haida Gwaii is over.

Even the First Nation`s blockade attempting to stop the very first oil tanker, 8 First Nations elders gave their life that day, not near enough pressure to stop that massive Vessel, Oil tanker Shell diamond and its Canadian naval escort, dugout canoe versus high-speed frigate, symbolic but futile, the time to stop Enbridge was before it started, certainly native voices on opening day weren`t going to stop it, you can`t stop $5 billion dollars spent, never-the-less, January 13/2016 was the day the first super tanker left Kitimat, thousands of small protest vessels, nothing, not even Greenpeace and Suzuki foundation`s concentrated efforts could stop the Federal Conservatives and the Gordon Campbell Christy Clark B.C. Liberal administration from rubber stamping this project from the git-go, proceeding at full speed behind closed doors, no matter how much evidence anti pipeline opponents, scientists, biologists and enviro`s put forward they were all but ignored, why didn`t the NDP government stop the completion of Enbridge after they were elected in 2013, was the fix in, too much money invested to stop, too big to fail, needed economic growth, jobs jobs jobs, yes I heard everyone of those excuses justifying the completion of Enbridge, what jobs, imported foreign workers building the pipeline and 120 permanent after construction jobs, was it worth it.

Madness, I knew something really big would happen, not the 5000 barrels that spilt into the Skeena river, not the 50,000 barrels dumped at the port of Kitimat but something epic, mathematicians also knew it was coming, not if a big spill would happen but when a spill would happen, I can still hear Christy Clark talk about risk management, the best corporate spinners hired to say we can manage the risk, how come no one asked how do we manage armageddon, how do we clean up, how do we create more Orca, how do you bring back thousands of square miles from the dead, I wonder what Gordon Campbell would say today, ex premier Adrian Dix stated regrets that the NDP didn`t do more to stop Enbridge, Gordon Campbell is long since dead, yes Stephen Harper and Gordon Muir Campbell I pass blame on to you and your complicit Cabinets, your legacy, Enbridge, bankrupt utilities, a dismal health care system, a dead central coast and slow dying life cycle, well, no one is listening to me, not the Governing federal Conservatives, not Premier Gordon Coons of the newly elected Refederation party, no, no one wants to listen to the left wing, after the BC Liberal led economic collapse, the seeds of P3s, IPPs and insider deals dominated, it didn`t matter who was Government in British Columbia, so many bad deals were signed, how many can the court overturn, the extent of the economic damage that came to fruition, what happened, like the Spanish flu in 1919 that killed millions, no one talks about the harm Gordon Campbell`s corporate Government inflicted upon us, the extent of one way contracts that ate up every Provincial dollar and more, I can`t help but think back to our 2010 Olympics, the pride, the I am Canadian attitude, Super Natural British Columbia but just a few short years after the closing ceremonies we have poisoned interior lakes, lost countless wild salmon runs to fish farms and now the third largest oil spill in the world, a death blow to our BC Coast, a massive spill in our migration engine.

Just picture heaven covered in oil, and what hurts even more, the people of BC don`t seem to care anymore, in the latest public opinion poll by Ipsos Reid job creation and big industry are more important than the environment, 67% for jobs and 16% say protect the environment, it`s times like this when I stare across at Mc Caully island or look into Norway inlet, smell the oil, I see the end of the world being played out, there is no shoulder of comfort to lean on, no soothing hugs that can squelch my silent anger, 576 successful departures from Kitimat, 576 loaded oil tankers that safely managed the inside passage, risk management, reward versus risk, despite 5 years of cruise ships not plying the inside passage, despite the loss to tourism, despite a sterile ocean desert, despite the tiniest of recoveries on the outer edges of the spill zone, despite of everything tanker traffic is predicted to triple over the next 3 years, an insatiable Asian appetite for oil and now that paradise is lost there is nothing left to fight for and no reason to stop, perhaps other Edens can be spared.

Number 577, no tears of anger, no screams of silence, nothing but…

“That peaceful easy feeling.”

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I think criminalmind’s concise and lucid comments represent the majority of thinking British Columbians’ opinion.

Well done criminalmind.

Somewhere over the rainbow..

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“thousands of miles of open prairies capable of growing huge quantities of food”
So its okay to develop natural forests and grasslands. I get it, you get to pick and choose.

“a grand short sighted experiment with the potential to melt the world and possibly bring mankind itself to extinction.”
Interesting so how come the world did not melt when C02 was ten times higher in the past. Did you know there has been no warming for the last 16 years, about as long as there was warming. Maybe we have hit a warming plateau and the way PDO, AMO ENSO are lining up and a decline in the suns energy we could be heading down the backside. Did you know there has been a cooling trend for the last 2 thousand years and if past history is repeated we are at the far end of this interglacial. If C02 does cause warming and there is no proof it does, maybe we should be pumping all the C02 we can into the atmosphere. Just what is the worlds mean temperature anyhow?
If there is a market for the oil the line most likely will be built. I would rather it not be, but our energies should directed to having it built and operated to the highest standards.
Where were the protests when a line was built through Jasper into BC?

Oh while the likes of Suzuki, Gore, Mann Etc. live their high lifestyles they want the rest of us returning to the stone age. Hypocrites

Why cut and paste the same stuff on every thread about the pipeline?

She thinks she is providing a “service”.

The protest was typical of the type of whining protests you get from those who, while they abhor the nasty-wasty pipeline they aren’t about to sacrifice their lunch-hour.

Hilarious. Typical wine and cheese socialists.

Way to take one for the team, ladies!!

And here I thought it was a joint NDP/BCTF/GEU meeting. Well, economic terroristas anyways…I think this fellow fron 115 Operating Engineers has it right. Nice to kno0w that no one in that picture would be on a name request…

Posted on July 31, 2012 by admin
By James Murphy, The Province July 29, 2012

The Northern Gateway Pipeline project will have a positive and lifelong impact on not only British Columbia, but all of Canada.

The oilsands project will not only provide short-term economic benefits but also long-term gain.

In the short term, this project will provide three seasons of direct construction jobs and decades of work and economic benefits for all of Canada, including British Columbia.

No one would disagree that Canada needs to diversify our markets. No one can argue that having the United States as our sole customer for oil is the best business practice. We need to develop a pipeline system that will allow our product to travel west and possibly east.

The development of these pipelines is essential to Canada, not only for the exporting of oil/gas but also for providing meaningful jobs to Canadians.

It means our 45,000 members (12,000 of whom live and reside in British Columbia) have the opportunity to work on a national project within Canada.

It provides trades people from across Canada the opportunity to work, provide for their family and put money back into our economy.

Operating engineers not only respect the environment, they take great pride and measures to ensure that they put in the place the safest pipeline possible.

Canadians would be amazed at the magnitude of the pipeline system already established within our country at this present time.

Those pipelines have ensured not only the prosperity and well-being of our members but of all Canadians.

James Murphy, Canadian regional director, International Union of Operating Engineers

© Copyright (c) The Province

“Operating engineers not only respect the environment, they take great pride and measures to ensure that they put in the place the safest pipeline possible.”

Do not forget it was engineers who designed the pipeline that burst into the Kalamazoo river. Do not forget it was engineers who decided that the same pipeline needed maintenance but passed it anyway!

How long would Enbridge supply The City Of Prince George with clean water if that crap got into the Nechako river? Kalamazoo is still being cleaned up 2 years after the spill! That’s a lot of bottled water.

good post rocky.

An open message to the international corporate globalization business!

There’s no point in telling these people who’ve posted against you criminal anything. The only thing they understand is MONEY and most of them are probable paid by Enbrige. So the only thing that you can give them is a price and that price is…..Fifty Billion, yes I said 50 billion. That’s ten thousand dollars for every British Columbian Tax free mind you so that we have the option to pick up and leave if there’s ever a spill.
Of course there will be 5 billion left for the B.C. Government.

That’s the price, if I were in power.
Nothing’s for free.

I wonder how hard someone fought to keep Central Park in New York City a park? It’s time to fight for BC! 10,000 for every British Columbian isn’t enough. No amount is enough!

Lets remove all those evil pipelines, I say all of them. While we are at it lets kick all those evil corporations out of the province. Lets start with booze manufactures.
Oh wait numerous posters on this site are now having second thoughts.

Hammmy: “So the only thing that you can give them is a price and that price is…..Fifty Billion, yes I said 50 billion.”

Dr. Evil? Is that you?

Have the educated people in the world gone nutty or what? Why is it that you want to hold up everything that helps us financially as well as personally? Do you all want to go back to cave dwelling,swatting flies and eating raw moose meat? The future is not about supressing growth? A little oil spill is nothing compared to what the railways pour on the ground every year — look that up. How the hell do you think we came to the advanced world we are in — do you think we should all turn into wearing furs and hunting for our food? Get real — the pipeline is going through — if not here, somewhere else and then we will be the losers. Chrisy will find out in the next election that she is not the queen of BC.

Funny stuff indeed, jokers to left and clowns to the right..

Alberta has been in deficit since 2007, they are running their second straight $4 billion dollar deficit..

All Alberta needs is 50 more tailing ponds and 10 more pipelines and that deficit will be reduced to -$5 billion per year.

The more tar sand goop development the broker Alberta is, heritage fund has been plundered and a decades since they made a deposit.

Wealth creation Stephen Treason Harper style.

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