Fossil fuel of this nature is financially, ethically and environmentally unsound. Listen to the truth speakers of our First Nations people and follow their guidance.
Mr. Trudeau – I am not going to attempt to argue finances or climate science with you. If you were interested in such things you would not have decided as you did, in favour of this most ill-advised offer.
Instead, I’m going to suggest an alternative:
Until very recently, Canada enjoyed a high level of respect on the world stage because of our apparent open, friendly attitude and, for an industrialized nation, our respect for our incredibly rich, diverse environment. You predecessor, Mr. Harper damaged that reputation significantly by running rough-shod over our protections and by willfully destroying decades of research by environmentally-concerned scientists, especially marine scientist.
You were elected, in large part, because you stood in direct opposition to that attitude. You said the right things, both at home and abroad. You led us to believe that you were committed to a clean-energy future; a future that respected our Indigenous Peoples, protected our waterways and forests, plains, tundra, mountains, and oceans, a future where we were committed to long-term rewards in exchange for long-term commitments to improvement.
Unfortunately, despite your bold words in Paris and your spoken promises to Indigenous People, you are backing down.
My suggestion is that, instead, you stand firm.
Stand by your words, your promises. Help Canada regain the respect we enjoyed so recently, and be the cause for that respect to grow. Canada isn’t a huge economic force, globally, but the example we set can be. You can be an example of a bold, new breed of leader; one who is honest and honourable, one who is prepared to do the hard work of going toe-to-toe with their money-grubbing foes – foes who are prepared to throw away all of our REAL opportunity to become international leaders, for whatever personal gains they see in this sort of economic tail-chasing.
Mr. Trudeau, please, for the sake of the Global environment, for the sake of Canada’s international reputation, for the sake of our Indigenous People whom you say you hold in such high esteem, and, honestly, for the sake of your own political and personal future, please, reverse this decision.
trudeau is a social media prime minister. we need what is best for the LAND, not money or foreign relations. canada is one of the only pieces of earth still protected (somewhat)
Stephan Graf commented
2018-04-16 12:08:43 -0700
I would try to reason with you as many have but you cant expect a corporate whore that is morally bankrupt be capable of doing the right thing.
Annette Lengyel commented
2018-04-16 12:03:01 -0700
A Canadian taxpayer bailout for a rich American corporation to rape our land and coastal environment.? No. Bloody. Way. Get us out of this swamp Justin Trudeau. If you want to invest in Canadian interests, invest in an Alberta refinery. Better yet, invest in green energy to create jobs and meet or exceed carbon reduction targets. First a rigged NEB approval process now this bailout. This corruption is staggering.
Mr. Trudeau:
Why should the Canadian citizens living in Burnaby & Vancouver, along the inlets and coast line, live with the very real possibility of a spill of bitumen dilbit that a) cannot be even adequately cleaned up or b) will destroy fish and shellfish habitat forever? There is still no proof that any federal plans to improve safety issues are in anyway adequate. Why should Canadian taxpayers subsidize a company that has financial problems even now by billions of taxpayer dollars to impose the shipping of a product that still doesn’t have a large enough market to warrant this risky venture? The bitumen has to be refined to be of any use. Why isn’t it being refined in Canada – creating local jobs for years to come (not just for the time it takes to put in the pipeline)? Why aren’t high-end plastics used for machinery( eg. for auto parts or medical equipment) made here instead of China? Cheaper isn’t a substitute for reliable. Why haven’t you thought to apply a truly Canadian solution to this dispute? Produce Canadian refined oil shipped for Canadian use as well as for export in risk-free conditions. There really are no other safe, profitable, long term alternatives.
Herb S Goode commented
2018-04-16 11:42:48 -0700
Why should we bail out a billion dollar corporation when the owner has billions he could give to his company. Also they are an American company, why would Canada bail them out ? I oppose this vehemently. Why should we help them destroy our coastline,streams,rivers,lakes pristine forests or environment is too important to allow this company to destroy it. A resounding NO,NO,NO
I oppose a bailout for Kinder Morgan. The proposed pipeline expansion does not have Indigenous consent along the route. If we’re going to spend $2 billion to make work for Albertans, we should spend it getting Alberta to the top of the pack for renewable energy. Where we are expanding oil sands shouldn’t we be implementing wind and solar farms? Not only would these options be more environmentally friendly, but they would also create jobs that are safer, more stable, and more in line with reducing our carbon emissions.
There should be no bailouts for Texas tankers and a corporation that is a cancer to our planet. That being said I am 100% in favour of allocating 2 billion dollars to help Alberta transition from an petrol economy to one centered around renewable energy.
As a young university educated citizen of this country, I implore you to reconsider your position on this and future pipelines,
This is absolutely a big no from me. For shame Mr Trudeau, I thought you were an environmentalist. Guess not huh? I am a BCer born and raised..I was a teenager when your father landed in Beacon Hill Park (Victoria) in his helicopter…looking for votes. Money, money money..but its the taxpayer that always pays. When are you going to govern for the People..instead of billionaire foreign companies. This is an attack on our sovereignty as a country. Why don’t you care about us? Why are you betraying us?
Randy Robertson commented
2018-04-16 11:30:01 -0700
We will never allow a bailout, we will never allow the pipeline, we will allow you to step down you American wannabe
You were voted in by the people in BC who “BELIEVED” you when you said the “KINDERMORGANPIPELINEWOULDNOT BE BUILT!” The students you taught, saw what your REALLY all about. A GREAT experience for first time voters !!!!!!! The apple didn’t fall too far from the tree!!! You are a self serving SMOOZER!!!! As a third generation non indigenous BRITISHCOLUMBIAN I am asking you not to call
BC “YOURHOME” we don’t want you here. This is “NOTYOURHOME” and never was and never will be.
DO NOT invest my hard earned tax dollars in the extraction or promotion of “BITUMEN” OR ANYTHING TO DO WITHKINDERMORGAN!!! SHAME on you and your FASCIST ways.
Brian Dernisky
maria roberts commented
2018-04-16 11:23:34 -0700
Justin, you are your father’s son, PERIOD! Your are NOT PM Pierre Trudeau of long-time-passing 20th C.
His strengths, his attitude, his time, do not fit well on your shoulders in this the 21st C.
Please, do not embarrass yourself, your government, OURCANADA by taking a retrograde neolithic STAND alongside Kinder Morgan by announcing:
“JUSTWATCH ME!”
A tectonic shift has occurred in global consciousness on the Rights & Voice of the Indigenous, on environment protection, on commitment to renewable energy, and climate change cessation.
Really Seriously get with the CHANGE!
Talk and platitudes doesn’t cut it any more!
Marion Bergevin commented
2018-04-16 11:14:23 -0700
Dear Right Hon. P.M. Justin Trudeau,
To say that I am disappointed by your stubborn, prideful, threatening by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and yourself, to B.C. Premier John Horgan at your April 15th meeting on the Kinder Morgan pipeline, is an understatement… I’m heartbroken, disgusted, and depressed!
I had such high hopes for the post-Harper era, with a young, charismatic, father of 3 children, Prime Minister and similar, Minister of the Environment, Catherine McKenna, expressing great Climate Change initiatives in the Paris Accord! (Keeping to 2°C global warming target wasn’t enough… you pushed for 1.5°C! I was proud to be Canadian!) What happened?!
Sorry…you are sacrificing the environment and the futures of your children and the world, for short-term jobs, and a Texas company’s profits! It is a choice: drastic reductions in carbon emissions now, or a dead planet! The oil and gas infrastructure we have presently, will transition us into a Green energy future. For the Kinder Morgan pipeline to recoup the $7 billion investment, would require 50 years of use… long past earth’s expiry date!
To think that Canada, Alberta, Indigenous tribes might invest +$2 billion of taxpayers’ dollars in Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, for a Texas company’s profits, is ludicrous! Shell, Exxon, Conoco-Phillips, Statoil, etc., have all bailed on losing Alberta Tar Sands projects! There is no global market for dirty, hard to process and ship, massive waste, diluted bitumen! VLCC ships carrying 2 million barrels of oil each, out of Louisiana, make the Burnaby port expansion obsolete. China,(and SE Asia), hasn’t taken a tar sands Dilbit shipment since 2011, and with the U.S. oil export ban lifted, few international bitumen refineries, and a global glut of oil, there is no viable economic case for further investment in the tar sands!
Kinder Morgan knows it, and are playing and blackmailing us: they couldn’t even get their own investment funding for their pipeline from banks… other than stupid Canadian Scotia Bank, (to go "bank"rupt?!), and stupid and naive Canadian governments?! Our oil and gas royalties are small internationally, and it’s estimated that the $45 billion environmental cleanup of Alberta Oil Sands alone, will cost us more than all of the royalties collected there since 1970!
So we let foreign oil companies suck $$ and Canada dry for years, leave orphan wells, we’ve paid them huge oil and gas subsidies, and now we take this rotten deal, which jeopardizes 1400 B.C. waterways, the Pacific Ocean, orcas and ocean life/economy, Beautiful B.C.?! No thanks: B.C. is out!!
Please read experts like Martyn Brown, Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk (sp.?), Andrew Weaver…and make a logical rebuttal and decisions. We can have many jobs developing and investing in Green energy: solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biomass, burning garbage, R&D, etc. Follow Scandinavian, German, The Netherlands, New Zealand’s lead into a clean and healthy future.
Please P.M. Trudeau and Premiers, lead Canada and the world into an environmentally and economically sustainable future! Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline…is not part of that, for the future of our earth! Thank you!
Yours Sincerely, Marion Bergevin (Nelson, BC.)
(*Please care, share, write your own letters, as we are at a crisis/transition point… with no new oil and gas infrastructure projects now, for an environmentally viable planet!)
I can not tell you how angry I am about this decision. How dare the Prime Minister of Canada take the hard earned money of Canadians and give it to a foreign private company? When did he receive the people’s consent for this? Kinder Morgan can not raise the money it needs on the open market, so why, oh why, should Canadians have to dig deep into their pockets to support this company? Mr. Trudeau, do the right thing and admit that you made an egregious error when you gave permission for this pipe line. Governments give permits, people give permission. Bah!!! We, the people of British Columbia did not give our permission. The people of Burnaby did not give their permission. The people of Vancouver did not give their permission. This pipe line should not even have been considered, let alone been given the green light. You, Mr. Prime Minister, are trying your very best to prop up a dying industry. This money that you are proposing to give to a foreign company should, instead, be being invested in clean energy. What will you tell your children and grandchildren when they visit the province you say you have a high regard for when they go to the beach and find it a black tarry mess? Bitumen can not be cleaned up and there will inevitably be a spill.
Say NO to Kinder Morgan. Use Canadian money for Canadians. I have yet to hear anyone say how this pipeline is in the national interest, yet I hear this phrase repeated over and over again. I see that it is in the interest of Alberta. And let’s get real about that. Alberta is blaming the non building of this pipe line on the loss of jobs in the oil field. As I recall, it was a glut of oil in the world that caused many of the oil companies to pull out of Alberta. It became unprofitable for them to continue extracting tar. And Premier Notely is giving a final last gasp to the oil industry by pushing for the extraction of tar that no one, apparently, wants.
DO NOTGIVEANYMONEY OR FINANCIALASSURANCES TO KINDERMORGAN. I stand with the Indigenous peoples of this most beautiful province and contest this fiasco.
Bobby T commented
2018-04-16 11:07:03 -0700
I am staunchly opposed to the pipeline and the fossil fuels industry. Alberta should be investing more into cannabis (which I see they’re now doing) and renewable energy. The tar sands can also reclaimed by the Earth and turned back into the beautiful boreal forest that it once was. It could be made the National Boreal Forest of Canada and bring in millions of dollars a year, which would go to the government. The province could also build massive solar and wind fields to generate electricity and they could sell electricity that they don’t need to the other provinces or the US. All of these would also provide good paying jobs and would be helping the environment instead of destroying it.
Hollie Adams commented
2018-04-16 11:05:24 -0700
Justin Trudeau, why are you allowing Alberta to bully BC, dividing provinces instead of unifying them? Your father would be so ashamed of you. Remember how he kept the country together? What is your real agenda here? Where is the money coming from, and going to? Will we eventually uncover a huge money scandal? Invest in green solutions! Invest in Indigenous communities and allow them to live off the land, THEIR land, and honour the treaties that your forefathers wrote. Learn from the Natives of this land. It’s not your land. It’s not my land. It certainly isn’t the land of Texas or any other State. Give up on the Trans Mountain deal with Kinder Morgan.
Hollie Adams commented
2018-04-16 11:05:09 -0700
Justin Trudeau, why are you allowing Alberta to bully BC, dividing provinces instead of unifying them? Your father would be so ashamed of you. Remember how he kept the country together? What is your real agenda here? Where is the money coming from, and going to? Will we eventually uncover a huge money scandal? Invest in green solutions! Invest in Indigenous communities and allow them to live off the land, THEIR land, and honour the treaties that your forefathers wrote. Learn from the Natives of this land. It’s not your land. It’s not my land. It certainly isn’t the land of Texas or any other State. Give up on the Trans Mountain deal with Kinder Morgan.
David Talbot, thank you for those words! I like it !
Our Prime Minister will not have any power again he has lied and made promises with a smile and with a smile wants to go ahead with Kinder Morgan NO!
Do not support a United States company screwing Canada’s natural resources, destroying all
Do not support the greed of Texans
Do not support more TARTSANDS
NO OILSPILLS in this case tart sand
Use our money to support social services
homelessness and poverty, hospitals, education, job training, employment , EI for all the people being laid off for the big stores closed , our welfare needs a big redo to end poverty why support GREEDYTEXASCORPORATIONS??!!!!!
Dave Talbot commented
2018-04-16 10:41:27 -0700
Justin you are starting to sound like a fascist strongman. People voted for you because we already had one of those for 10 years! Your sunny days and promises sound more like traps, manipulation and lies now. Canada has much more than tar to make this country successful. We have wonderful people, including indigenous peoples who have spent hundreds of years fighting to save theirs waters and lands. We other Canadians have also much to fight for. I, like you, was a teacher, and spent much of my career trying to connect Intermediate Grade children to nature and raise hatchery salmon in my classroom, and teach recycling and respect for this little ball of a planet we all call home.
The tar sands never should have been allowed to be. It is an affront to everything I stand for and many Canadians and other people of this planet find it obscene!
Canadians have had too much to do with creating and fueling climate change. Our footprints are huge in comparison to others on this small planet. What is so sad is that now we know how rapidly we are destroying the planet and yet we continue to destroy the land and water.
The United Nations just completed an extensive study on biodiversity on the planet. The results are shocking, numbing!
Are you as our Prime Minister telling the young people of this planet that we must expand the tar sands and build new pipelines and have hundreds of huge oil tankers or we won’t survive as a country.
You need to be listening to the world’s scientists, not the oil and gas industry.
If you continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence of doom, your children and mine are going to look back and ask why you didn’t lead, why you did’t have the courage to do the right thing.
When you say it is in Canada’s best interest I cringe as a Canadian. What about the other 7 plus billion people on our small ball, shouldn’t they get a vote as well.
You are a very rich man. You are privileged. You will survive the effects of global warming, you may not even miss the millions of disappearing species. But billions of poor people who were unlucky enough to be born in Mali, or Peru, or Bangladesh don’t need the tar sands or our oil tankers, and I think that Canadians
are industrious enough and creative enough and smart enough that we don’t either!
Canada has the means to go for RENEWABLEENERGY instead NO TO THEKINDERMORGANBAILOUT!!
marilyn mcallister commented
2018-04-16 10:35:20 -0700
I am not interested in underwriting Kinder Morgan; Tax-payers bailing out corporations, I don’t think so.
How do we go through the whole reconciliation process with First Nations Peoples, and then shut them out of discussions around this pipeline? I have to say I was more than embarrassed, I was ashamed.
How do we support the move to clean energy with a pipeline that ensures expansion in the TAR-sands? And moves Tar onto the B.C. coast? When a spill happens it won’t be an “oil spill”, it will be a “TAR-spill”.
Janet Hudgins commented
2018-04-16 10:19:54 -0700
Hard to remember the last time a politician fought so hard for anything as Trudeau and Notley are in taking on this pipeline. You have to wonder who is in the lobby and what’s the threat if they fail. Be a great thing to see a premier, or a prime minister, fight this hard for equity for their constituents across the board.
Seriously!! Please do not side with Big Oil! Canadians can not want to involve themselves with American Big Oil! Please follow your election promise regarding climate change. I do not want our tax dollars supporting American Corporate Greed!
Peter Reusch commented
2018-04-16 10:15:24 -0700
Prime Minister!
My province of BC is the stepchild of all the provinces of this country. The oil industry is history, is a sunset industry and threatens the whole country’s future, especially BC’s far more important tourism industry. Please do not support a US corporation who will destroy all. Thank you!
Peter Reusch
PS: In any case, we will fight for our environment until our battle will be won.
Cheri Dodge commented
2018-04-16 10:10:17 -0700
It does not even make economic sense never mind all of the other reasons to stop the pipeline. This is a good read that perhaps Trudeau and Notley should have a look at. nationalobserver.com/2018/03/07/opinion/fatal-flaw-albertas-oil-expansion I believe most Canadians vastly oppose spending their tax dollars to bail out a US fossil fuel company. Perhaps investing that money into renewable energy subsidies would be a far better choice. Even the US has a 30% federal tax incentive for those who go solar.
It’s bad enough this government is totally in bed with fossil fuel companies, but using my hard-earned money to subsidize this industry is unconscionable. According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the $3.3 billion Canada CURRENTLY provides in subsidies to this industry could pay for educating 260,000 students, provide hospital beds for 16,000,000 days, offer job training to 330,000 workers, or put $94 in the pocket of every Canadian each year. And the government is proposing to spend even more of our money to bail out an enterprise that the FREEMARKET already thinks is a terrible deal.
The execs at Kinder Morgan must be busting their guts right now laughing at the gullibility of this government — KM conjures a harmless bogey man and the Canadian government jumps all over itself trying to appease the empty threat.
Building the pipeline isn’t going to change the fact that no one wants to pay full price for the tar sands because it’s a lower quality product than they can buy elsewhere. And encouraging further development of the tar sands is NOT going to save us from climate change hell any more than encouraging people to smoke more would cure lung cancer.
Michael Currie commented
2018-04-16 09:56:44 -0700
Prime Minister Trudeau …. Perhaps you have forgotten… It is time to keep your and our country’s promises about Climate Change and renewable energy for Canadians ….not foreign Corporations. Remember those promises…. ‘because it is … 2018’
Appalled at my Canadian Government’s actions, but extremely proud of my BC Government’s stand
Lynne Currie voter and ciyti
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Instead, I’m going to suggest an alternative:
Until very recently, Canada enjoyed a high level of respect on the world stage because of our apparent open, friendly attitude and, for an industrialized nation, our respect for our incredibly rich, diverse environment. You predecessor, Mr. Harper damaged that reputation significantly by running rough-shod over our protections and by willfully destroying decades of research by environmentally-concerned scientists, especially marine scientist.
You were elected, in large part, because you stood in direct opposition to that attitude. You said the right things, both at home and abroad. You led us to believe that you were committed to a clean-energy future; a future that respected our Indigenous Peoples, protected our waterways and forests, plains, tundra, mountains, and oceans, a future where we were committed to long-term rewards in exchange for long-term commitments to improvement.
Unfortunately, despite your bold words in Paris and your spoken promises to Indigenous People, you are backing down.
My suggestion is that, instead, you stand firm.
Stand by your words, your promises. Help Canada regain the respect we enjoyed so recently, and be the cause for that respect to grow. Canada isn’t a huge economic force, globally, but the example we set can be. You can be an example of a bold, new breed of leader; one who is honest and honourable, one who is prepared to do the hard work of going toe-to-toe with their money-grubbing foes – foes who are prepared to throw away all of our REAL opportunity to become international leaders, for whatever personal gains they see in this sort of economic tail-chasing.
Mr. Trudeau, please, for the sake of the Global environment, for the sake of Canada’s international reputation, for the sake of our Indigenous People whom you say you hold in such high esteem, and, honestly, for the sake of your own political and personal future, please, reverse this decision.
Why should the Canadian citizens living in Burnaby & Vancouver, along the inlets and coast line, live with the very real possibility of a spill of bitumen dilbit that a) cannot be even adequately cleaned up or b) will destroy fish and shellfish habitat forever? There is still no proof that any federal plans to improve safety issues are in anyway adequate. Why should Canadian taxpayers subsidize a company that has financial problems even now by billions of taxpayer dollars to impose the shipping of a product that still doesn’t have a large enough market to warrant this risky venture? The bitumen has to be refined to be of any use. Why isn’t it being refined in Canada – creating local jobs for years to come (not just for the time it takes to put in the pipeline)? Why aren’t high-end plastics used for machinery( eg. for auto parts or medical equipment) made here instead of China? Cheaper isn’t a substitute for reliable. Why haven’t you thought to apply a truly Canadian solution to this dispute? Produce Canadian refined oil shipped for Canadian use as well as for export in risk-free conditions. There really are no other safe, profitable, long term alternatives.
I oppose a bailout for Kinder Morgan. The proposed pipeline expansion does not have Indigenous consent along the route. If we’re going to spend $2 billion to make work for Albertans, we should spend it getting Alberta to the top of the pack for renewable energy. Where we are expanding oil sands shouldn’t we be implementing wind and solar farms? Not only would these options be more environmentally friendly, but they would also create jobs that are safer, more stable, and more in line with reducing our carbon emissions.
There should be no bailouts for Texas tankers and a corporation that is a cancer to our planet. That being said I am 100% in favour of allocating 2 billion dollars to help Alberta transition from an petrol economy to one centered around renewable energy.
As a young university educated citizen of this country, I implore you to reconsider your position on this and future pipelines,
BC “YOUR HOME” we don’t want you here. This is “NOT YOUR HOME” and never was and never will be.
DO NOT invest my hard earned tax dollars in the extraction or promotion of “BITUMEN” OR ANYTHING TO DO WITH KINDER MORGAN!!! SHAME on you and your FASCIST ways.
Brian Dernisky
His strengths, his attitude, his time, do not fit well on your shoulders in this the 21st C.
Please, do not embarrass yourself, your government, OUR CANADA by taking a retrograde neolithic STAND alongside Kinder Morgan by announcing:
“JUST WATCH ME!”
A tectonic shift has occurred in global consciousness on the Rights & Voice of the Indigenous, on environment protection, on commitment to renewable energy, and climate change cessation.
Really Seriously get with the CHANGE!
Talk and platitudes doesn’t cut it any more!
To say that I am disappointed by your stubborn, prideful, threatening by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and yourself, to B.C. Premier John Horgan at your April 15th meeting on the Kinder Morgan pipeline, is an understatement… I’m heartbroken, disgusted, and depressed!
I had such high hopes for the post-Harper era, with a young, charismatic, father of 3 children, Prime Minister and similar, Minister of the Environment, Catherine McKenna, expressing great Climate Change initiatives in the Paris Accord! (Keeping to 2°C global warming target wasn’t enough… you pushed for 1.5°C! I was proud to be Canadian!) What happened?!
Sorry…you are sacrificing the environment and the futures of your children and the world, for short-term jobs, and a Texas company’s profits! It is a choice: drastic reductions in carbon emissions now, or a dead planet! The oil and gas infrastructure we have presently, will transition us into a Green energy future. For the Kinder Morgan pipeline to recoup the $7 billion investment, would require 50 years of use… long past earth’s expiry date!
To think that Canada, Alberta, Indigenous tribes might invest +$2 billion of taxpayers’ dollars in Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, for a Texas company’s profits, is ludicrous! Shell, Exxon, Conoco-Phillips, Statoil, etc., have all bailed on losing Alberta Tar Sands projects! There is no global market for dirty, hard to process and ship, massive waste, diluted bitumen! VLCC ships carrying 2 million barrels of oil each, out of Louisiana, make the Burnaby port expansion obsolete. China,(and SE Asia), hasn’t taken a tar sands Dilbit shipment since 2011, and with the U.S. oil export ban lifted, few international bitumen refineries, and a global glut of oil, there is no viable economic case for further investment in the tar sands!
Kinder Morgan knows it, and are playing and blackmailing us: they couldn’t even get their own investment funding for their pipeline from banks… other than stupid Canadian Scotia Bank, (to go "bank"rupt?!), and stupid and naive Canadian governments?! Our oil and gas royalties are small internationally, and it’s estimated that the $45 billion environmental cleanup of Alberta Oil Sands alone, will cost us more than all of the royalties collected there since 1970!
So we let foreign oil companies suck $$ and Canada dry for years, leave orphan wells, we’ve paid them huge oil and gas subsidies, and now we take this rotten deal, which jeopardizes 1400 B.C. waterways, the Pacific Ocean, orcas and ocean life/economy, Beautiful B.C.?! No thanks: B.C. is out!!
Please read experts like Martyn Brown, Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk (sp.?), Andrew Weaver…and make a logical rebuttal and decisions. We can have many jobs developing and investing in Green energy: solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biomass, burning garbage, R&D, etc. Follow Scandinavian, German, The Netherlands, New Zealand’s lead into a clean and healthy future.
Please P.M. Trudeau and Premiers, lead Canada and the world into an environmentally and economically sustainable future! Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline…is not part of that, for the future of our earth! Thank you!
Yours Sincerely, Marion Bergevin (Nelson, BC.)
(*Please care, share, write your own letters, as we are at a crisis/transition point… with no new oil and gas infrastructure projects now, for an environmentally viable planet!)
Say NO to Kinder Morgan. Use Canadian money for Canadians. I have yet to hear anyone say how this pipeline is in the national interest, yet I hear this phrase repeated over and over again. I see that it is in the interest of Alberta. And let’s get real about that. Alberta is blaming the non building of this pipe line on the loss of jobs in the oil field. As I recall, it was a glut of oil in the world that caused many of the oil companies to pull out of Alberta. It became unprofitable for them to continue extracting tar. And Premier Notely is giving a final last gasp to the oil industry by pushing for the extraction of tar that no one, apparently, wants.
DO NOT GIVE ANY MONEY OR FINANCIAL ASSURANCES TO KINDER MORGAN. I stand with the Indigenous peoples of this most beautiful province and contest this fiasco.
Our Prime Minister will not have any power again he has lied and made promises with a smile and with a smile wants to go ahead with Kinder Morgan NO!
Do not support the greed of Texans
Do not support more TART SANDS
NO OIL SPILLS in this case tart sand
Use our money to support social services
homelessness and poverty, hospitals, education, job training, employment , EI for all the people being laid off for the big stores closed , our welfare needs a big redo to end poverty why support GREEDY TEXAS CORPORATIONS??!!!!!
The tar sands never should have been allowed to be. It is an affront to everything I stand for and many Canadians and other people of this planet find it obscene!
Canadians have had too much to do with creating and fueling climate change. Our footprints are huge in comparison to others on this small planet. What is so sad is that now we know how rapidly we are destroying the planet and yet we continue to destroy the land and water.
The United Nations just completed an extensive study on biodiversity on the planet. The results are shocking, numbing!
Are you as our Prime Minister telling the young people of this planet that we must expand the tar sands and build new pipelines and have hundreds of huge oil tankers or we won’t survive as a country.
You need to be listening to the world’s scientists, not the oil and gas industry.
If you continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence of doom, your children and mine are going to look back and ask why you didn’t lead, why you did’t have the courage to do the right thing.
When you say it is in Canada’s best interest I cringe as a Canadian. What about the other 7 plus billion people on our small ball, shouldn’t they get a vote as well.
You are a very rich man. You are privileged. You will survive the effects of global warming, you may not even miss the millions of disappearing species. But billions of poor people who were unlucky enough to be born in Mali, or Peru, or Bangladesh don’t need the tar sands or our oil tankers, and I think that Canadians
are industrious enough and creative enough and smart enough that we don’t either!
How do we go through the whole reconciliation process with First Nations Peoples, and then shut them out of discussions around this pipeline? I have to say I was more than embarrassed, I was ashamed.
How do we support the move to clean energy with a pipeline that ensures expansion in the TAR-sands? And moves Tar onto the B.C. coast? When a spill happens it won’t be an “oil spill”, it will be a “TAR-spill”.
My province of BC is the stepchild of all the provinces of this country. The oil industry is history, is a sunset industry and threatens the whole country’s future, especially BC’s far more important tourism industry. Please do not support a US corporation who will destroy all. Thank you!
Peter Reusch
PS: In any case, we will fight for our environment until our battle will be won.
The execs at Kinder Morgan must be busting their guts right now laughing at the gullibility of this government — KM conjures a harmless bogey man and the Canadian government jumps all over itself trying to appease the empty threat.
Building the pipeline isn’t going to change the fact that no one wants to pay full price for the tar sands because it’s a lower quality product than they can buy elsewhere. And encouraging further development of the tar sands is NOT going to save us from climate change hell any more than encouraging people to smoke more would cure lung cancer.
Appalled at my Canadian Government’s actions, but extremely proud of my BC Government’s stand
Lynne Currie voter and ciyti