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Tsleil-Waututh Voice Concerns to Vancouver City Council
Rueben George, Sundance Chief and Member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, expresses his concerns to the Vancouver City Council about the crude oil tankers now passing through Burrard Inlet at the rate of 2 per week, wtih pipeline expansion plans by Kinder-Morgan to increase that traffic to 288/year. George points out that those waters are traditional Tsleil-Waututh territory, and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson acknowledges that the Council shares George’s concerns about the effect an oil spill would have on the region, and about questionable decisions being made at the Federal level.
How Conservative Advertising Hustlers Lie About Ethics And the Tar Sands.
Who is Ezra Levant and Why Is He In Your Neural Pathways?
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You may not have heard of Ezra Levant, but he’s been studying your brain. Ezra is a lawyer and conservative political activist, who first gained media attention by accusing the University of Alberta of racism for instituting a program to hire women and aboriginal professors. Later, he advocated for Quebec separatism as an opponent of multiculturalism, believing it would give the Canadian government the “fortitude” to say no to “other special interest groups” like First Nations and environmentalists. › Continue reading
Breaking News: Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion Proposal!
Kinder Morgan Pipeline to Vancouver
If Kinder Morgan gets their way there will me more,and bigger, oil tankers traveling through Vancouver Waters!
Almost unnoticed, Kinder Morgan has made a proposal to the National Energy Board to expand their existing pipelines capacity bringing more Tar Sands crude oil to Vancouver. › Continue reading
Impact of Crude Oil in marine environments:
Gulf of Mexico oil spill victim
Crude oil has a much greater impact on marine environments than refined gasoline products. Crude oil is thicker and heavier, so it does not float and does not easily evaporate. Crude oil contains suphur, paraffins, asphaltics, naphthene, benzenes, and other compounds that have toxic effects on plants and animals. From studies of historic oil spills, these are some of the impacts from crude oil in a marine ecosystem: › Continue reading
Kinder Morgan’s track record: Pollution is routine
Fines are treated as a cost of doing business
Legal resistance and political influence used to stonewall public dissent
Kentucky: Attorney General Jack Conway caught in conflict of interest, approving $6 million utility rate increase for Kinder-Morgan partner Atmos Energy. Conway owned $1-5 million Kinder Morgan Energy stock; he received over $10,000 in campaign contributions from Atmos Energy executives and Atmos lobbyist, Capital Link Consultants. › Continue reading
Misinformation Given to Vancouver City Council
Double Hull spills, crude oil to China, frequency of oil spills
On July 6 2010, the Vancouver City Council invited “expert testimony” from professionals in the Vancouver shipping community to discuss the risk of crude oil tankers in Vancouver Harbour. These so-called experts provided our city councillors with misinformation regarding the safety record of double hull tankers, the frequency of oil spills, and the destination of the crude oil passing through Vancouver. › Continue reading
“Port McMurray”
Oil Tanker in the Burrard Inlet
“Tar Sands Industry making Vancouver its Shipping Port”
In 2007 US oil pipeline company Kinder Morgan, and their partners in China, began shipping tar sands oil tankers through the port of Vancouver without any public process. Kinder Morgan – owned by ex-Enron oil billionaires – bought the Westridge terminal in Burnaby, where the tankers are loaded. The company is now applying to Canada’s oil-friendly Harper government to increase the amount of oil from 300,000 barrels per day to 700,000 barrels per day. › Continue reading
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