More Than Just a Pipeline

 Forum to explore
LNG (Liquid Natural Gas), Fracking,
and the Comox Valley connection

February 27, 7 - 9 pm

• Smithers resident Micheal Sawyer has spent decades as an environmental consultant in the oil and gas sector in Alberta, and will speak about the upstream effects of LNG projects (including LNG Canada and the Coastal GasLink pipeline slated to supply it), as well as the life-cycle costs to the public of such projects.

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• Richard Wright, Wilps Luutkudziiwus is the Spokesperson from Madii Lii Centre in Gitxsan territory in northern BC.  He will discuss the Indigenous rights context surrounding extractive projects, including issues with current federal and provincial approval processes, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

• Well-known journalist and filmmaker Damien Gillis will speak to the impact of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) on land and water.

• Bernadette and Keith Wyton of the Barkley Sound Alliance will focus on the project’s impact at its end-point at the Kwispaa LNG export facility. They will speak about the protections in place and opposition to the proposal.

We are excited to announce the appointment of our ew Executive Director at the national level.  Molly joins the organization in March and is the former executive director of the international social justice organization, Inter Pares.

With new leadership, we enter 2019 grateful for the alliances and support both nationally and here in the Comox Valley and remain passionately committed to struggles for economic and social justice, the protection of the Commons, and democracy. 

Word Activists:

The following media contacts can be emailed and told that we do not want Steelhead LNG in Barkley Sound and we do want a full ban on fracking in BC.  While Steelhead has announced a "pause" on the Kwispaa project, the following media sources continue to support the project.  

• Natural Gas Intelligence, Gordon Jaremko- gjaremko@gmail.com
•  Upstream, News Editor- Mark Hillier - Mark.hillier@upstream.com
• Journal of Commerce, Editor - editor@journalofcommerce.com
• Natural Gas World, Editor- William Powell - William.powell@naturalgasworld.com
• Kallanish Energy - info@kallanish.com
• Oil and Gas 360, Editor- B. Beavon - bbeavon@enerconinc.com
• The Canadian Press - editorial@thecanadianpress.com

Petitions: 

• Ban Fracking in BC (My Sea-to-sky)
• Scrap Bill C-69 and commit to developing a national action plan. 
• Support ban on Herring fishery

Mark your calendar!

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