Prime Minister: Protect our coast, reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline
- by: Georgia Strait Alliance
- recipient: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
In December, the federal government will make its final decision on the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project.
If built, this pipeline will mean an additional 400 tankers carrying toxic diluted bitumen through the Salish Sea. The risk of a spill is simply too great; especially since no technology exists to effectively clean up diluted bitumen from our waters. Once a spill happens, it's too late — too late for our coast, our wildlife and for our communities.
21 BC municipalities and 17 First Nations agree: Kinder Morgan is not worth the risk. Stand with them and call on the Prime Minister to reject this pipeline!
The Salish Sea is a national icon: a place of stunning natural beauty, diverse wildlife and world-class recreation right on the doorstep of one of Canada's largest cities. It is also one of the most important marine areas in the country, home to 125 species at risk, and counting.
A spill of diluted bitumen anywhere in the Salish Sea would be simply devastating.
A single spill could push the 84 endangered southern resident orcas who call the Salish Sea home to extinction, and threaten tens of thousands of jobs in the coastal economy.
And what about the wild salmon who swim to their native rivers, first passing through the same waters that the toxic tankers will be using every day?
Stand up for our coast, our climate and our communities, and ask our Prime Minister to say NO to the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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Dear Prime Minister,
I'm writing to ask you to reject Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project.
If built, this pipeline would mean an additional 400 tankers carrying toxic diluted bitumen through the Salish Sea.
The Salish Sea is a national icon: a place of stunning natural beauty, diverse wildlife and world-class recreation right on the doorstep of one of Canada's largest cities. It is also one of the most important marine areas in the country, home to 125 species at risk, and counting.
A spill of diluted bitumen anywhere in the Salish Sea would be simply devastating.
The most recent scientific evidence demonstrates conclusively that diluted bitumen can and will sink when spilled in water, and that no spill response technology currently exists to effectively recover bitumen that has sunk below the surface.
A single spill could threaten tens of thousands of jobs in the coastal economy, and push the 84 remaining endangered Southern resident orcas who call the Salish Sea home to extinction. Even without a spill, the National Energy Board found that the everyday impacts, including noise pollution, of increased Kinder Morgan-related tanker traffic through orca critical habitat, are "likely to result in significant adverse effects to the Southern resident killer whale”, and would "further impede the recovery of the population" – both of which run counter to the Species at Risk Act.
On the campaign trail, you committed to science based, democratic decision making; protecting our oceans; making Canada a climate leader; and rebuilding Canada’s relationship with First Nations. Please honour these commitments, and safeguard Canada’s magnificent West Coast, by rejecting the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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