DGR Caravan to and rally for Unis'tot'en Action Camp
Tour Stops:
July 25th - Eugene
July 26th - Bend
July 27th or 28th - Portland
July 29th - Olympia
July 30th - Seattle
August 1st - Bellingham
August 3rd - Vancouver
The camp dates are August 6 "“ 10, 2012. Registration for delegations and individuals will soon follow this posting.
The camp location is at 66km on the Morice River West FSR and is at the shore of the Wedzin Kwah and mouth of the Gosnell Creek. These are all tributary to the the Skeena, Bulkley, and Babine Rivers. The proposed pipelines from Northern Gateway, Kitimat Summit Lake Looping Project, and the Pembina and Kinder Morgan Pipelines seek to cross the rivers at the exact point where the resistance camp is built in Unis'tot'en Territory of Talbits Kwah.
The Lhe Lin Liyin, along with other strong uncompromising allies will stop this destructive path, for the future generations, for the biodiversity, and for solidarity with our neighbours living amidst the heavy impacts in the Tar Sands Affected areas in Northern Alberta, and regions heavily affected by Fracking Natural Gas and Shale Oil, as well as communities impacted by Refineries, Pipelines, and Fuel Terminals and Port Expansions.
The 3rd Annual Unis'tot'en Action Camp registration and list of items, and calendar will be available on this page soon. When it is available the update will be sent on twitter, facebook, and emails. For more information on the camp please telephone Freda Huson at 250 847 8897 and email at [email redacted].
Thank you for your interest in the 3rd Annual Unis'tot'en Action Camp! Talk to you very soon."
ABOUT THE PIPELINES :
(from https://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/no-pipelines/)
Four Companies proposed what they call the "Energy Corridor" to cross Wet'suwet'en Territories; with a total of seven pipelines from Bruderheim to Kitimat, and from Summit Lake to Kitimat. Three companies, Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipelines, and Endbridge Inc. each propose dual pipelines to transport not only dirty bitumen, but also condensate as a diluent (along with the cocktail of heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and poisons from the extraction and slurry process to turn solid bitumen rock into flowing mock oil). One of the four companies' projects, formerly owned by Pacific Northern Gas (now 40% owned by Apache Corporation, 30% by EOG Resources [formerly Enron], and 30% by EnCana) seeks to transport through a 36"³ diameter bidirectional pipeline to transport Fracturing Project Natural Gas from the Horn River Basin. Fracturing Projects have many disastrous qualities (for lack of a better word) to it and the pollution is the problem with this pipeline. Natural Gas from Fracking projects are 80 % more carbon intensive than conventional natural gas. So it is worse that what was once abundant.
The Grassroots Wet'suwet'en will stop all pipelines by any means necessary. In solidarity with nations also opposing pipelines in their territories, we do not take any "Not In My Back Yard" [N.I.M.B.Y. = equals weak arguments] approaches in our strong stance against poisoning waters for money and greed. We stand beside communities in all directions taking action to stop the pipelines that exist, that are proposed or approved to expand, or proposed pipelines projects awaiting approvals.
We understand that the seven proposed pipelines represents a total number of SuperTankers, meaning that the combined effort of seven pipelines means approximation of up to 1500 SuperTankers embarking and landing along the coast every year. We could say good by to biodiversity and our relationship (not ownership) with the lifeforce that is the West Coast. Please see related posts about our stance against Carbon Offsetting, Boreal Offsetting and Biological Offsetting as weak NIMBY approach and False Solutions to climate change.