no pipeline, no tankers, no problem 2

..txs quizzical. what are your sources around oil trains? i'm going to try and access the same data robyn allan. want to educate myself more in the topic.

LAST HOUR: Members of the Canadian youth climate delegation at COP22 in Morocco photobombed Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, calling on her to reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

..wow! i read your description of supermoon and that you would be seeing it between the mountains. i can certainly sympathize with you re this gross intrusion. living under a constant threat if you might.

..for sure trains are going south hence the struggles to the there in trying to block those trains from coming through. i've posted stuff about it here. i want that closer look of the records. luckily allan provides links in some of her work so there's where i'll start.

Trudeau’s NEB appointments contradict climate commitments

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On Nov. 8, the federal government announced the composition of the committee that will recommend how to modernize the NEB process. The promise to overhaul the NEB was a central part of the Liberals’ climate plan in the 2015 election campaign, and was their go to answer for all pipeline-related questions.

Big Oil connections to NEB review committee

The committee appointed by the Trudeau government, however, is stacked in favour of oil interests. Of the five members on the new committee, three, including the two co-chairs, have strong ties to the oil and gas sector.

Co-chair Hélène Lauzon is the president of the Quebec Business Council on the Environment, an organisation that defends the interests of its voting members, many of whom have vested interests in the fossil fuel industry and the development of new pipelines. Members of the council include TransCanada, Enbridge, Valero, Junex, Gaz Métro and Questerre.

The other co-chair, Gary Merasty, sits on the board of directors of the Canada West Foundation, which promotes the expansion of the tar sands and the construction of new pipelines, including Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.

Brenda Kenny, another review committee member, was the president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association from 2008 to 2016. CEPA is another group that promotes and defends the interests of its members, including oil and gas companies like TransCanada, Enbridge, and Kinder Morgan. CEPA has been openly promoting the Energy East, Trans Mountain, and Northern Gateway pipelines.

David Besner, chair of the New Brunswick Energy Institute, and Wendy Grant-John, the first woman elected B.C. regional chief to the Assembly of First Nations, make up the rest of the committee.

..i don't enjoy posting stuff like this. chips away at my hope. but it's important to understand the enormity of the tarsands project's effect on the earth.

Opinion: Trudeau-backed Keystone XL will exceed climate pollution from 100 nations

Trudeau asked for it. Trump will approve it. Our climate is going to get it.

The Keystone XL pipeline will enable up to fifty million additional tonnes of fossil carbon to be dug out of Alberta's bitumen deposit each year. That will dump another 195 million tonnes of climate pollution per year1 into our already destabilized climate.

For comparison, that exceeds the combined emissions from the 100 least climate polluting nations.2

Should Canada be pursuing Keystone XL at this point in the climate crisis? And should the Trudeau government approve yet another gigantic pipeline, in addition to Keystone XL — the bitterly opposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion to Vancouver's shores?

Take a look at the comparison between KXL and 100 nations below and decide for yourself....

..txs. great turnout!!!!

..for today

#KMVigils

..from an email

Today is the day. From Victoria to Halifax, people from coast to coast will stand up against the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.

Tonight, with thousands of people planning to attend over 45 vigils across the country, we will make it clear to Prime Minister Trudeau: climate leaders don’t build pipelines -- reject Kinder Morgan.

There will be a vigil in Winnipeg -- here’s how to join:

What: Winnipeg Vigil to Stop Kinder Morgan
Where: Manitoba Legislative Building - Main Entrance, Winnipeg
When: Monday, November 21, 6:00 PM

Sign up here and let the event organizers know you can make it.

Kinder Morgan is on the edge of becoming a major political crisis for the Prime Minister.

On Saturday, over 4,000 people marched in Vancouver to demonstrate that this pipeline does not have the consent of First Nations or communities along its route -- and it would be devastating for our climate. Today, we will amplify this message across the country. Check out the full map of all of the events across the country to see the breadth of opposition to this pipeline.

Prime Minister Trudeau and his government are severely underestimating the extent to which people across the pipeline oppose this pipeline. If we stand up together we can show him that he can’t get away with approving Kinder Morgan while calling himself a climate and Indigenous rights leader.

Let’s tell Prime Minister Trudeau to keep his promises. RSVP to the vigil in Winnipeg.

Let’s stop this pipeline,

..a 2 min video put out in oct of this year.

Could tankers Collide with Vancouver's Second Narrows Bridges?

Concerned Professional Engineers

..for 30 years i lived in vancouver and it was a rare moment that i called that bridge the iron worker memorial. most of those years were spent heavily involved within the union movement. i called it the second narrows as did almost everyone around me except for formal occasions. this wasn't disrespectful just easier to say.  

Kwantlen Nation leads the fight against Kinder Morgan pipeline transgression of territorial and political sovereignty

On Sunday December 11, 2016, Kwantlen Nation led an anti-Kinder Morgan pipeline rally in Fort Langley, partnering with the PIPE UP Network. Kwantlen leaders and community members marched and spoke out against the intrusion of the recently approved pipeline into their unceded territories.

Nearly 200 people took to the streets of Kwantlen territory on Sunday. We met at the Community Hall in Fort Langley, where Kwantlen community members gathered us together with songs. We marched to the old colonial Hudson’s Bay Company fort a few blocks away, an appropriate destination that illustrated ongoing links between colonial corporations from the founding days of Canada to the present....

..excellent wide ranging piece.

From Standing Rock to Trans Mountain, dissent is in the pipeline

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a Lubicon Cree, grew up in Alberta’s oil country. Since the age of 7, she has joined blockades and protests aimed at protecting her community’s traditional lands from resource development. “I was born into it,” she said in an interview. “It’s my inheritance.”

Her parents’ generation was the last to live off the land; their hunting and trapping was disrupted by the thousands of oil and gas wells that have been installed there over her lifetime. In 2011, the community’s worst fears came to life when the Rainbow Pipeline ruptured in their collective back yard, spilling 28,000 barrels of light, sweet crude – the largest oil spill in Alberta in 36 years.

Forged by that experience, Ms. Laboucan-Massimo is now working at Greenpeace and throwing herself into the campaign to stop the freshly approved Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion that will dramatically increase the amount of oil-sands crude shipped through Vancouver Harbour....

Jesse Jaso, 12, enters the Unity Teepee at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, N.D. Camp supporters from across North America and around the world have left messages and signatures on the walls.

Conservation groups launch suit challenging Trudeau cabinet's pipeline approval

Conservation groups have filed a new court challenge to the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

The request for judicial review filed with the Federal Court of Appeal late Monday in Calgary is at least the eighth legal test of the controversial project, which will almost triple the capacity of an existing, 1,150−kilometre pipeline from near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C.

The Liberal government gave the green light to the $6.8−billion pipeline expansion late last month, despite a thicket of existing legal challenges to the regulatory process.

Ecojustice lawyers, on behalf of the Living Oceans Society and Raincoast Conservation, say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet broke the law when it relied on a National Energy Board assessment of Kinder Morgan’s controversial pipeline expansion.

The groups argue the board — and thus the Liberal government — did not properly take into account the Trans Mountain pipeline’s impact on endangered southern resident killer whales. The newly expanded pipeline will increase oil tanker traffic from the port in Burnaby to about 34 ships a month, up from the current five....

iyraste1313 wrote:

re First Nations, this is a wrong strategy....their (international and charter)laws are different and more powerful...they must take independent action, alert the UN of their intentions and institute their rights under Convention 169 and the Declaration of Indigenous Rights...

..there was a time when i wasn't sure and thought you may have a point iyraste..but not anymore. after a couple recent supreme court decisions re bc and also how the canadian adoption of undrip could be so easily manipulated by the government almost to the point of it being toothless. better is more direct options like the recent treaty alliance and totem journey. better are the discussions going on from coast to coast re the pipelines/climate that call for supporting each other. better is the leap going global as i has done recently.

..that is not to say there couldn’t be a challenge at the global level because there already is but you statement "this is a wrong strategy" is totally off the wall.

Beyond DAPL, the Line 3 Pipeline Battle Looms On The Horizon

Once we defeat the Dakota Access pipeline, it is essential that we carry the energy from this fight forward, to the many other places where Indigenous people are resisting fossil fuel infrastructure projects that threaten our lands and water.  We are not fighting a pipeline, we are building a movement.  The black snake has many heads. We ask you to continue standing with us.

On November 29, Canada's federal government officially approved two major pipeline projects - Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion and Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. They also rejected Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline, after years of opposition from west coast First Nations and their allies. 

Once the last piece of Dakota Access pipe is removed from the ground, we at Honor the Earth will turn our focus back to Line 3.  Similar in size and purpose to the recently defeated Keystone XL pipeline, Enbridge’s Line 3 is proposed to transport tar sands oil over 1000 miles, from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, right through the heart of Anishinaabe territory and some of the best lakes and wild rice beds in the world.  The proposed route endangers three of the continent’s major watersheds including the Great Lakes, home to one fifth of the world’s fresh water.  It would also pierce the heart of Ojibwe treaty lands, where members of signatory bands retain the rights to hunt, fish, gather, hold ceremony, and travel.  It is our responsibility as water protectors to prevent this.   We will not allow Line 3 to desecrate our lands, violate our treaty rights, or poison our water....

This City Just Banned Virtually All New Dirty-Energy Infrastructure

On December 14, the city council in Portland, Oregon, voted unanimously to set “the first stone in a green wall across the West Coast,” in the words of Mayor Charlie Hales. He was referring to a groundbreaking new zoning ordinance that effectively bans all new fossil-fuel-export infrastructure within the city’s limits—including new port facilities for shipping coal, and holding tanks for oil and natural gas—and prevents existing facilities from expanding. The vote marks a hard-fought victory for local activists and environmental groups. And, in anticipation of the Trump administration’s pro–fossil fuel agenda, it signals to other cities that innovative action to counter climate change is still possible at a local level.

Hales wasn’t always so supportive of building a “green wall” against fossil-fuel exports. In fact, the two-year-long grassroots campaign that led to the new zoning ordinance began in opposition to Hales’s initial support for a $500 million propane export facility proposed by the Pembina Pipeline Corporation, the largest pipeline company in the Canadian tar sands. Local opponents—who organized themselves into a group calling itself the Climate Action Coalition—bird-dogged Hales at local events, photo-bombing him with their protest signs. They posted a caricature of Mayor Hales with the name “Fossil Fuel Charlie for Mayor” on Portland State University’s campus. On Earth Day 2015, coalition members briefly took over City Council proceedings, bearing giant cardboard cutouts of councilors’ faces and talk bubbles showing quotes in which they’d pledged to act swiftly on the climate crisis.

Facing the choice between the propane-export terminal—the single largest business proposal in Portland history—and a well-organized pack of activist opponents, who submitted thousands of letters, e-mails and calls to City Hall, as well as Portland-area scientists who produced voluminous reports highlighting the potential catastrophe posed by mile-long trains filled with propane traversing the city’s rails each day, Hales finally surrendered: He took the Pembina propane-terminal proposal off the city’s docket....

iyraste

..why are your last 2 post bolded? my understanding is that bolding means yelling.

but still the Indigenous Nations have way more power legally than even the cities...but to implement such power they too must be coordinating nationally but especially internationally...

..i agree that indigenous nations have more power. the rest of your statement is where i believe we disagree. correct me if i'm wrong.

..i see this coordination already happening both nationally and globally. i posted a line 3 post showing the cross border collaboration but have post many other examples as well. there is also international collaborations going on. and of course all of this must continue to grow.

..now what i get from your assessments is that this coordination is not happening. and the reason i believe one of the main reasons you feel this way is because they are not taking actions under convention 169.

Environmental groups sue Kinder Morgan after Upstate gas spill

Multiple environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Kinder Morgan, citing water pollution in South Carolina.

Kinder Morgan, North America's largest energy infrastructure, operates a gasoline pipeline in the Upstate. A spill in 2014 leaked at least 370,000 of fuel in Belton from the pipeline.

Upstate Forever and Savannah Riverkeeper, represented by Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), claim the company has violated the Clean Water Act.

The groups said Kinder Morgan's cleanup plan for the spill was inadequate and petroleum pollutants are still being discharged into a waterway flowing into Broadway Lake, Lake Secession, Lake Russell and the Savannah River. Upstate Forever said 170,000 gallons of gasoline have not been removed.

"Our clean water is our most important resource," said Andrea Cooper, executive director of Upstate Forever. "Kinder Morgan has had two years to contain its huge gasoline spill, but the company continues to pollute the Upstate's precious clean water with gasoline pollutants."....

Trudeau Leaves His BC MPs Hanging by Approving Wave of Projects

On Nov. 29 of last year, as Justin Trudeau began to reveal his decision about an oil sands pipeline to Vancouver’s harbour, he announced he was a “grandson of British Columbia” with special ties to “our spectacular West Coast.” He then granted approval of the project while admitting many British Columbians would be “bitterly disappointed.”

Most bitter, probably, were those British Columbians who voted Liberal in the last election thinking they were halting just this sort of project pushed by Harper Conservatives in the face of environmental cautions....

..yup the level of force is the question. the pacific trails pipeline is set to begin this year with the unist'ot'en camp blocking we will see this play out. we will also see how the resistance reacts.

How the Spectre of Oil Trains is Deceptively Used to Push Pipelines

Either support new pipelines or your community will be incinerated by an oil-carrying train.

It sounds outrageous, but it’s been a foundational argument made by the pro-pipeline lobby ever since the horrific Lac-Mégantic disaster in 2013.

“This is almost like putting a gun to the head of communities, saying ‘well, if we don’t build our pipeline then we’re going to put more oil-by-rail traffic through your community,’ ” says Patrick DeRochie, program manager of Environmental Defence’s climate and energy program.

“I think that’s dishonest and the oil industry’s really manipulating legitimate public concerns about rail safety to push pipelines.”

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Highest Amount Ever Exported by Rail Was Mere 178,000 Barrels Per Day

Here are the numbers on oil-by-rail.

In September 2016 — the most recent month reported by the National Energy Board on the subject — oil-by-rail exports to the United States were 69,292 barrels per day (bpd).

They had dipped as low as 43,205 bpd in June 2016.

This obviously reflects the extremely low per-barrel price that bitumen is fetching from American refineries, which is also why there’s currently around 400,000 bpd of spare capacity in the pipeline network.

Plus, oil-by-rail generally costs more than shipping oil by pipeline, making it an even less viable option in such economic times.

But rail shipments have never been particularly notable relative to total crude oil production.

In fact, oil-by-rail’s high point in recent years was in September 2014, when 178,989 bpd were transported to the U.S.

The same year, Canada was exporting a total of 2.85 million bpd. In other words, at its very peak, oil-by-rail accounted for a mere 6.28 per cent of total exports.

..comment from the unist'ot'en camp

The form of consultation chosen by the province of British Columbia for the Unist'ot'en plaintiffs of the landmark 1997 Delgamuukw case is a letter stating that the Pacific Trails Pipeline has been started. There is no reasonable option for review or a response... Just a notice that PTP has been started.

Letter

718,918 reasons Christy Clark said ‘yes’ to Kinder Morgan

After formally opposing the Trans Mountain expansion proposal at National Energy Board hearings last January, Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government has reversed its position, embracing Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and oil tanker proposal.

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Kinder Morgan, its oil patch backers and industry associations had already donated at least $718,918 to the BC Liberals by March 2016. This included:

- $33,188 directly from Kinder Morgan and Trans Mountain;

- $20,950 from the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, most of it while Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson was CEPA chair;

- $551,985 from oil sands producers with shipping contracts on the new Trans Mountain pipeline, including Nexen, Cenovus, Devon, Imperial Oil, Suncor and CNRL....