no pipeline, no tankers, no problem

From my in box:

"This morning, Trans Mountain Pipelines filed a Facilities Application with the National Energy Board (NEB) for the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project. This application filing follows over a year and a half of engagement with pipeline and marine communities, a detailed environmental and socio-economic assessment, route assessments, and other various marine and terrestrial risk analyses and studies. This filing is a significant milestone in the development of this project and another step in the on-going engagement we will be having within your community.

When printed, the Application is over 15,000 pages and up to two metres high when stacked end on end. Please visit our Application website at http://application.transmountain.com.

The NEB will hold its own public engagement process, including a hearing on the Application before it makes a decision on the proposed Project. The hearing will allow people or groups who have been granted permission to participate by the NEB a chance to raise issues, present evidence, test evidence, and provide their input. Information on how to participate in this process can be found here: http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rthnb/pblcprtcptn/pblchrng/pblchrng-eng.html

We invite you to visit our website to see how we have addressed community interests along the pipeline and marine corridors. Over the coming months we will be approaching stakeholders to consult on specific elements within the application. We will also be returning to communities where we have visited before in our previous engagements to discuss the application and proposals contained within.

From the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, we wish you the best this holiday season and look forward to continuing our dialogue with you and your community in 2014.

Sincerely,
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project Team"

txs quizzical. here's a story i ran across

Kinder Morgan files plan to turn Vancouver into ‘Port McMurray’

It’s official. Just days before the National Energy Board is expected to announce its findings on the controversial, proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, US pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has filed its application to build a massive new oil pipeline to its tanker terminal in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet.

The eight-volume submission – covering everything from project design to aboriginal relations, environmental compliance and risk management – will take some time to chew through. For starters, though, the proposal would add a new pipeline carrying 590,000 barrels per day of diluted bitumen and synthetic crude from the Alberta Tar Sands to the company’s Burnaby terminal.

It will inevitably be presented as a logical alternative to Enbridge, as merely a “twinning” of the 50-year-old TransMountain pipeline – but it is much more than that....

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/kinder-morgan-files-plan-turn-vancouver-po...

BC LNG bigger than Tar Sands? Export licences face Cabinet review

BC LNG applications dwarf oil pipeline proposals and Tar Sands production, but receive only a fraction of the attention.

On Monday, the same day the news broke that Kinder Morgan has finally filed its Vancouver pipeline expansion proposal, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver also chose to announce that four massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licenses recommended by the National Energy Board (NEB) will go to Cabinet for review and final decision.

This is in the same week we expect to hear the NEB approve the Enbridge Heavy Oil pipeline proposal with “conditions” that reflect the social license posturing of the BC Liberal Government - and, once again, much media debate will ensue.

However, it is important that we do not let this overshadow the NEB’s approval of four more LNG export licenses, reaching 7 total approved licenses, involving a mind-boggling 109.18 million tonnes per annum (mtpa.) of natural gas. That’s a staggering total gross volume of 2905.5 million tonnes over 25 years, requiring a massive increase in hydraulic fracturing in BC to feed these LNG plants and tankers.....

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/bc-lng-bigger-tar-sands-export-licences-fa...

Stephen Harper Protesters Block Vancouver Island Venue

Prime Minister Stephen Harper hiked a historic trail Tuesday with about 50 Scouts from Vancouver Island, but the serenity of his peaceful morning stroll along the rain-soaked Trans-Canada Trail didn't last long.

Harper was met later in the day in Mill Bay, B.C., by about 100 chanting, placard-carrying protesters who stood across the road leading to Brentwood College School, where the prime minister was set to speak to Conservative Party supporters.

Several protesters jawed about public and private property rights with RCMP officers who formed a line nearby.

Others carried homemade placards displaying their opposition to the federal government's position on climate change or the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which would bring Alberta oil products to British Columbia's North Coast for export to Asia by tanker....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/07/stephen-harper-protesters-vancou...

Other Spy Watchdogs Have Ties To Oil Business

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/other-spy-watchdogs-have-ties-to-oil-bus...

"Chuck Strahl isn't the only SIRC committee member who has history with oil, gas or Harper. To paraphrase the old saw, what people don't know can't hurt the government."

..my bold

quote:

The Unis’tot’en have set up camp in the way of the planned Pacific Trails gas pipeline. The project was granted an environmental-assessment certificate by the B.C. government in 2008. It is expected to be operational in 2015.

In a 2012 interview in Vancouver, Unis’tot’en spokesperson Freda Huson told the Straight that Pacific Trails will clear the route for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oil pipeline and other gas pipelines.

When asked how her people will deal with a potential violent confrontation, Huson replied: “We’ll do what we need to do.”

Hill has visited the Unis’tot’en camp in the path of Pacific Trails. “It’s going to be the first pipeline that’s going to be really challenged,” Hill said. “That’s going to be a critical part of the Enbridge struggle.”...

http://www.straight.com/news/561671/activists-plot-how-block-new-pipelin...

The picture is worth the whole article:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/Broadcaster+Murphy+tells+pipeline+bu...

Maybe he's bucking for Mike Duffy's old spot.

You are commiting mass genocide...stopping causes the economy to collapse...not stopping and the economy will eventually collapse.

The key problem is the transition from where the systsem is...to where it has to be.

There is no way...once the economy begins to collapse and the general population begins to suffer...they will demand the activists be hunted down and exterminated.

really...that is where your activism is taking you all...The opposition to the activists are just building a case against the activists...

What do you think when the middle class begin seeing their loved ones suffering due to the economic collapse and the leaders point out it was the activists that slowed down the construction?

Of course all the corporate people have millions and billions of dollars to survive on...and they will go ultra police state....and the majority of the population looking for revenge/retribution will back them 100%

You need a solution to the problem...protesting/shit disturbing is not a solution...It just contributes to the the problem.

You can not have your cake and eat it too.

Angry protesters force First Nations leader off university stage

Angry protesters took over a planned talk by First Nations leader Phil Fontaine in Winnipeg on Wednesday, resulting in the rescheduling of the event.

Fontaine was scheduled to speak at the University of Winnipeg in the early afternoon on First Nations issues in the past, present and future.

But loud protesters crowded the area almost immediately after he began speaking, some armed with anti-oil sands signs, others with drums and some with their faces painted red and black.

Fontaine, a former Assembly of First Nations chief, accepted a job with TransCanada Pipeline, a natural gas and oil pipeline developer in December.

Protesters were angry he took the job, saying he isn't representing their interests and isn't thinking of the environment....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/angry-protesters-force-first-nati...

Gitga’at First Nation challenges Enbridge panel ruling in court

The Gitga’at First Nation in British Columbia has filed a court challenge to the federal review panel recommendation in favour of the Northern Gateway pipeline, bringing to 10 the number of applications filed in Vancouver against the project.

The small community centred around Hartley Bay on the north coast said its way of life would be severely threatened by the bitumen-laden tankers that would navigate Douglas Channel on their doorstep.

In applications filed this week with both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, the band asks for a judicial review of the joint review panel’s decision.

“We’re talking about hundreds of ships passing by basically our front door… and the impact that that’s going to have on our way of life and the cultural identity of the Gitga’at people,” Cam Hill, an elected band councillor, said Wednesday.

“We are a sea-going people. Our life is on the sea.”...

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/gitgaat-first-nation-challenges-enbridge-p...

Former Aboriginal affairs minister Strahl quits CSIS watchdog amid controversy

Former Aboriginal affairs minister Chuck Strahl quit his post as chair of Canada’s spy agency watchdog after facing criticism for also lobbying for Enbridge and a First Nation energy company doing business with the Chinese.

In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper released publicly Friday, Strahl said he was stepping down as chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) to avoid being sucked into a political battle....

Pancakes Not Pipelines Feeds Resistance: Skwomesh Action forms to defend Salish Sea and Mother Earth

video

On January 26 2014, Skwomesh Action hosted their first large public event. Pancakes Not Pipelines brought hundreds of supporters together to support Indigenous resistance to tar sands and fracking pipelines at a local and provincial level. The pancake brunch included guest speakers including Mi’kmaq Warrior Society members involved in the blockade of SWN Resources Canada fracking gas equipment in Elsipogtog. Cultural performances included the Coast Salish Dance Group Children of Takaya, shown at the end of this video.

The event raised funds to support the Unist’ot’en Camp and Skwomesh Action’s organizing efforts....

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/video/pancakes-not-pipelines-feeds-resista...

Unist'ot'en Camp has recently learned that the construction phase of the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline has started from the East and also from the West. They intend to have the pipeline finished to the Eastern and Western borders of our unceded lands with us as the last obstacle. The entire illegitimate BC governmental system as well as the Harper regime plan on using mainstream media and their powers within to come down hard on the Wet'suwet'en for our refusal to allow them to bully their way into our lands. It is time for us Wet'suwet'en to hunker down and assemble all of the allies and supporters and begin working at shutting down the present construction phase. All researchers and activists who have committed to helping us need to step up now and provide help where you can.

..i see this as applying across the board and here in canada

No More Red Scares: Fighting Fair Against Keystone XL and Fossil Fuel Expansion

On January 28, California environmental activist and billionaire money-manager Tom Steyer aired a national anti-Keystone XL pipeline ad before and after the State of the Union Address on MSNBC. The one-minute ad, titled “Suckers” and produced by Steyer’s NexGen Climate group, sidelines climate change opting instead for McCarthy-Era anti-Chinese imagery that preys on the presumed prejudice of an uninformed public.

The ad begins with nerve-wracking music and a photo of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao smiling and shaking hands. We then watch a Canadian maple leaf flag morph into the Chinese five stars as it flutters over the Martian landscape of tar sands excavation. A male narrator informs us that Keystone XL is “a sucker punch to America’s heartland,” because China is “counting on the U.S. to approve Canada’s pipeline to ship oil through America’s heartland, and out to foreign countries like theirs.”

This time last year, I was knocking on doors near the capitol house in Olympia, Wash., asking if people wanted yard signs that read NO COAL EXPORTS, WE CAN DO BETTER. The legislative session was about to begin and it seemed like a good idea to alert lawmakers to the public sentiments about these coal export proposals. I was prepared to discuss the topic with skeptics, cynics and folks who supported coal exports, but one gentleman caught me off guard.

“I’ve heard about that,“ he said, careful not to open the door too wide. “I’ll ask my wife. You know the coal’s all headed to China. They think they deserve our quality of life now.“ He continued to detail for me things the Chinese thought they deserved: air conditioning, cars, television, our jobs. He did not take a sign from me, but he was quite riled up by the time I excused myself and he shut the door.....

http://www.occupy.com/article/no-more-red-scares-fighting-fair-against-k...

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/10/plan-to-build-25b-refinery-...

The Greens are now officially a sell out Party.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/02/10/rex-murphy-the-oilsands-and-the-cone-...

Overflow crowd at Burnaby pipeline workshop

So many people showed up at Saturday's information meeting on participating in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion process that a second session has been scheduled for Feb. 9, said Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart.

Stewart estimated there were about 400 people in attendance at Confederation Community Centre, and said some people had to be turned away.

The meeting was to explain how people can apply to participate in the process and was scheduled after the National Energy Board (NEB) cancelled its own local meetings last fall and opted for online sessions instead.

"So far it's the only meeting of this type," he said by phone from Ottawa Monday. "The NEB should be doing these things but they're not."...

http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/242428541.html

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Oil from a Kinder Morgan marine spill could foul Vancouver beaches within 24 hours

quote:

The study released wooden drift cards representing oil at locations on the tanker route that are at higher risk of an incident, corresponding to potential spill sites identified in Kinder Morgan’s Monday application. The study reveals how far and fast oil could travel from these spill sites, and what kind of valuable areas could be affected. Initial drift card recovery findings indicate:

 ·         Oil spills in Vancouver Harbour could cover Stanley Park, Jericho Beach, Kitsilano Beach, False Creek, Iona Beach and the North Shore from Ambleside Park to Lighthouse Park, within 24-48 hours.

·         Oil could travel from the mouth of the Fraser River to Victoria in 4 days.

·         Oil from a spill off the Greater Vancouver coast could reach Tofino (a distance of 300 km) in 3 weeks.

Kinder Morgan’s application recognizes English Bay as a site for potential incidents but then dismisses it as a possible spill location “due to relatively low frequency for an accidental oil cargo spill”.....

http://www.georgiastrait.org/node/1168

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Threatens Ecology and Economy of Salish Tribes

Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC — Opposition to Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain proposed pipeline project ramped up today as Coast Salish peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border vowed to oppose the project as intervenors before Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB). Coast Salish intervenors include the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish Tribe in Washington state, and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in British Columbia. The deadline for application to participate in the NEB process was [Wednesday] night at midnight.

“Over the last 100 years, our most sacred site, the Salish Sea, has been deeply impacted by our pollution-based economy,” said Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby. “Every kind of pollution ends up in the Salish Sea. We have decided no more and we are stepping forward. It is up to this generation and future generations to restore and protect the precious waters of the Salish Sea.”

“Our people are bound together by our deep connection to Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea. We are the ‘People of the Inlet’ and we are united in our resolve to protect our land, water and air from this risky project,” said Chief Maureen Thomas of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. “We will use all lawful means to oppose it. This is why we have applied to intervene in the NEB hearing process.”....

http://intercontinentalcry.org/kinder-morgan-pipeline-threatens-ecology-...

You are commiting mass genocide...stopping causes the economy to collapse...not stopping and the economy will eventually collapse.

( from hypertiger)

...There´s one flaw to this argument...stopping the mega projects  yes will dramatically increase the decline of Canada´s financial support...but the effects on the finances then the economics of the country has no effect on the economics of the people on the land working to self reliance, especially the autonomous indigenous territories...

Activists looking to protest and blockade must be supporting the people on the land, consciousness raising and organizing in their defence!

But ultimately the success of the struggles of the autonomous indigenous must come through their internationalist efforts.

International law (guarantees) the rights of the indigenous to informed consent...it is clear throughout  international case law.

Of course I don´t for a minute believe that the corporate state will respect the rule of law, but it definitely will eliminate their legal legitimacy...first step!

Second step is to organize alliance with all autonomous indigenous Peoples to guarantee those rights through direct action internationally.
I have participated in such actions...it works! 

Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation October 22, 2013 to May 5, 2014

Spaces of Contestation is a series of talks, performances, public actions, publications, and an exhibition that examines the collective walk/protest/public demonstration as both a performance and a social formation. The core of the project is in four collaborations between artists and community organizations, that initiate community engagement and democratic use of public space via the realization of site-specific participatory performances.

Public actions and performances
March – May 2014

 Gabriel Mindel-Saloman will collaborate with the Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE), a grassroots residents’ association in Burnaby. The artist will work with members of BROKE towards the realization of a “Mapping Procession” aimed at increasing public awareness of the underground pipeline system existing in Burnaby through a combination of artistic interventions and activist advocacy tactics. Saloman and BROKE will begin with a series of workshops designed to create a “People’s Map” of Burnaby and its resource infrastructure. This map will serve as a guide for making visible in public space much of what is hidden from public discourse around the effects of the pipeline system and its proposed expansion. Saloman and BROKE will be inviting a wide range of community groups to participate in the public performance.
Performance/procession April 12, 10am – 3:30pm, locations in Burnaby TBA

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March 4, 2014 BURNABY TOWN HALL : KINDER MORGAN’S PIPELINE EXPANSION

Burnaby Residents Opposing the Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion (BROKE) and Forest Ethics Advocacy will host a Town Hall Meeting on March 4th about Kinder Morgan’s plan to build a new pipeline to carry crude bitumen at extremely high pressure from the Alberta tar sands to Burrard Inlet....

quote:

Get the facts. Come to the Town Hall on March 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Cameron Elementary School, 9540 Erickson Dr. Discuss the issues with your neighbors.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi expresses support for the Keystone XL pipeline.  link

i said here a long time ago Kinder Morgan and Transmountain long ago did this. it's how they're going to get their piepline "twined".

and i think the mine at Fish Lake didn't get approved because Kinder Morgan has identified they need about 900 people to fill jobs for the pipeline and they don't think there's enough. there ain't going to be any splitting of the available work force until the pipeline goes through no matter who's in government.

Prentice’s arrival won’t soften Enbridge pipeline opposition: Coastal First Nations

Former Aboriginal affairs minister Jim Prentice will be leading Enbridge Inc.’s charm offensive to convince recalcitrant First Nations to support the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

Enbridge said in a statement Wednesday that Prentice would be leading the energy firm’s “renewed efforts to consult…and establish partnerships with First Nations.

Prentice, who is currently vice-chairman of the CIBC bank, also announced his new role on Twitter.

“I have agreed to help (the Northern Gateway) project because I believe First Nations should be full partners in resource projects,” tweeted Prentice, who was Aboriginal affairs minister from 2006 to 2007. “And they should be owners of projects like the Northern Gateway Pipeline project.”....

KenS wrote:

I'm guessing that Prentice coming in is because the govt has two seperate problems.

 

1.] Getting First Nations approval in general / overall. 

2.] That Enbridge and the Harper Crew without Prentice's credibility cannot even manage to get the agreement of SOME First Nations at least potentially ready to split off and sign a deal with some benefits for them.

 

Publicly, overtly, its all about #1. But everyone, Prentice included, without saying it sees getting unanimous approval as essentially impossible.

So the real strategy is to rescue the potentially achievable divide and conquer #2. Which Enbridge and its govt enablers wants to do, but is running out of time to pull off.

Make sense? Or are they really hoping to buy off all or most First Nations? [Or subform of that: bring in Prentice so they can say they really tried? Which I can see them easily being cynical enough for. But how much hope does "we tried" have of standing up in court? While buying off some First Nations, can allow them in court to portray the holdouts as not negotiating in good faith.  ???]

I don't think #1 matters much, and I don't think it's constructive or accurate to talk of 'buying off' First Nations. The govt and Enbridge require agreements with all Indigenous communities whose rights may be affected by the pipeline.

[i] Enbridge says it has agreements with 26 Aboriginal communities along the pipeline route, which will carry Alberta tar sands bitumen to the British Columbia coast. That number, however, is disputed. Enbridge only has the support of three B.C. First Nations at most and the number it uses relies heavily on Alberta support.[/i]

All Coastal First Nations oppose the pipeline, and most along the route in BC.
Jim Prentice is known to have integrity in working with Indigenous issues, but his purpose of pushing through the pipeline puts him in a bad position to start.

This will be a very interesting process.