The Prime Minister does not have an original idea when it comes to the Kinder Morgan. The idea to Buy the Kinder Morgan Pipeline by the government and to have all Canadians involved in the purchase was an original idea put together by
MYSELF some years ago and I do not recall giving permission to anyone else to
go ahead with this venture. Contact me at – [email protected]

The Prime Minister does not have an original idea when it comes to the Kinder Morgan. The idea to Buy the Kinder Morgan Pipeline by the government and to have all Canadians involved in the purchase was an original idea put together by
MYSELF some years ago and I do not recall giving permission to anyone else to
go ahead with this venture. Contact me at – [email protected]

Wow Doreen R sure has a weird interpretation of history. I think this site should be monitored for homophobic content and by the way, Margaret has bipolar and has become a advocate for those suffering with mental health issues. And what does any of this have to do with the pipeline issue.

Sign now and stand with 17+ current and former members of the Prime Minister's Youth Council: "Cancel the #KinderMorgan Buyout, Prime Minister Justin #Trudeau!" #stopkm #protecttheinlet #climatechange #climateaction #noconsent https://www.coastprotectors.ca/youth_council_to_trudeau_cancel_the_km_buyout?recruiter_id=61456

It is a suprise to me that we live in a democracy where a PM candidate can lie on multiple issues and can not be forced to justify the lies. There is video evidence. A PM who ignores his own ministerial panels KM questions then calls the process consultation. He has caused so much damage in such a short period of time. Time is running out for the youth of the world.

Rhonda Jackson, what are you on about?

Proud of these people for having the courage to put partisanship aside and see the forest for the trees. Prime Mnister Trudeau and members supporting the Trans Mountain Pipeline buyout need to listen more closely to those citizens opposed. The short term gain versus the inseparable damage to the problem Vince and coast line the PM supposedly holds so near to his heart. The majority of First Nation bands in the geographic vicinity of this pipeline have opposed it for practical health reasons as well as cultural. The PM has cried along side First Nations elders across this county promising real progressive change, were those real tears or the ones connected with a certain reptile common in places like Florida.

Can’t sign the solidarity agreement with the team but I am commited nonetheless.

This Living Salish Sea- film trailer: https://vimeo.com/230837393
Please watch and share the trailer and the full length 88 minute documentary.
Thank you,
Sarama

I stand together in solidarity with all those who are working for social justice and a healthy environment that sustains us. I’ve spent five years of my life making a film called This Living Salish Sea, about the issues of climate change, fossil fuels, the Tar Sands and Kinder Morgan’s endangerment to the Salish Sea. Please watch and share my film by going to the film website and clicking the link to watch the full 88 minute documentary: www.livingsalishsea.ca

“Lie: The Ocean Protection Plan will protect against oil spills on the coast; The Feds say that “their” science says diluted bitumen floats (so no need to worry). It didn’t in the 2010 Michigan spill. Eight years later, bitumen is still being scraped off the bottom of the Kalamazoo River. And, even if it did float, at best 10-20% of the spill will be recovered. The rest of it will end up on the riverbed or ocean floor or wash up as tar-balls on our beaches. The bottom line is that all of the $1.5 Billion of vaguely defined Oceans Protection Plan won’t make dilbit float.” https://commonground.ca/tell-me-lies-lies-crude-little-lies/ AND https://commonground.ca/how-trudeaus-lies-differ-from-trumps-lies/ ….
VARIOUS environmental groups have been vocal in stating that when released into gritty B.C. coastal waters, diluted bitumen (dilbit) sinks to the bottom within a few hours.
Ironically, their concern about dilbit’s apparent irretrievability from life and ecosystem sustaining waters may (as ludicrous as this may sound) inadvertently reactively become its appeal to some readers typically apathetic towards our natural environment: The dilbit spill will not be an eyesore after it sinks—i.e. out of sight, out of mind.
Why worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance, especially when there are various social issues and contemptable politicians over which to dispute?
I see it as analogous to a cafeteria lineup consisting of diversely societally represented people, all adamantly arguing over which identifiable traditionally marginalized person should be at the front and, conversely, at the back of the line; and, furthermore, to whom amongst them should go the last piece of quality pie—all the while the interstellar spaceship on which they’re all permanently confined is burning and toxifying at locations rarely investigated.
Could it be somewhat similar to the ostrich syndrome seemingly prevalent in human nature that allows the immense amount of plastic waste, such as disposable straws, getting dumped out of sight thus out of mind before eventually finding its way into our life-filled oceans?
In his May 15 essay published Canada-wide, Black Press chairman David Black wrote that, “There is no way to prevent [its sinking] and no way to retrieve the dilbit, so the ocean and fishery would be ruined for generations”; but then the same apathetic nature may elicit further lame shortsightedness—e.g. ‘I don’t eat fish, nor desire to visit the beach, let alone swim in the open wild waters’.
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“Lie: The project will generate 15,000 good, middle-class jobs: Wish that it were so! Unfortunately, Kinder Morgan’s own figures show only 52 long-term jobs in BC associated with the TMX project—running the expanded Burnaby tank farm, the terminal and maintaining the pipeline. There are more employees in an average tourist hotel. All others—digging and laying the pipeline, feeding and housing the workers—would be temporary workers during the 2-year construction period. And there are dozens of hungry pipe-laying crews in Texas and Oklahoma all geared to fill those construction jobs.” https://commonground.ca/tell-me-lies-lies-crude-little-lies/ AND https://commonground.ca/how-trudeaus-lies-differ-from-trumps-lies/ ….
WHAT really bewilders and angers me about Alberta’s and Ottawa’s aggressive insistence on the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s pipeline is the obfuscation of the real, serious threat to B.C.’s natural environment for the sake of jobs and the economy when almost all of the jobs are temporary and the economy would do far better by we processing our own oil.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/romilly-cavanaugh/kinder-morgan-pipeline-bc-alberta-neb_a_23401126/
At the very least, we should process enough of our own crude to supply the expensive gas-consumption requirements of Canadians—even if it means paying a little more for Canadian wages—instead of exporting the bulk raw resource then importing the finished product. A similar question could be asked in regards to our raw-log softwood exports abroad.
After thirty years of consuming mainstream news media, I’ve yet to come across a seriously thorough debate on why Canada’s various governments consistently refuse to alter this practice, which undoubtedly is/was the most profitable for the huge Texas-based corporation, Kinder Morgan. And I’m not talking about open and closed on the same sole day, with the topic discussion parameters constrained to the point the outcome seemed predetermined.
https://commonground.ca/blackmail-and-bailouts-in-the-kinder-morgan-pipeline-saga/
If the Americans can extract and process their own oil—as well as our crude and logs—then we should be equally as patriotic thus Canada First, even if it means paying slightly higher for Canadian wages than those in the U.S.

Hi from the South! Im guessing its far more effective to have Canadian citizens sign this, but as a PNW dweller in Washington State who is gravely concerned about the impacts of this pipeline on the Salish Sea, I would love to be able to add my name!

As the pro-pipeline media campaign gets underway in British Columbia, I have come to the conclusion that many Canadians WANT to believe the rosie picture that our federal government, the Alberta government and the oil and gas industry want us to believe. Many Canadians live a very privileged life and have high expectations of our governments to continue to provide them with that life. They are not bad people. But their hopes for a continued good life appears to be depriving them of the desire to research facts for themselves and appears to be depriving them of the ability to think critically and to imagine that governments and industry can and will lie to us in order to keep THEIR privileged positions. Everyone wants things to stay the same. But like our beautiful youth, I am willing to make sacrifices in order to bring about positive changes that will make a better life for everyone, now, and for future generations. I can and will phase out the use of fossil fuels in my own life. We all can. The refusal to do so is selfish and short-sited. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is just ignorance.

When the Canadian government bows to rich lobbyists and leaves the country and constituents in the dust we realize that we, too, made the wrong decision. We were so hopeful when we get rid of the right-wing, neoliberal, Conservative administration only to find a year later that we had been taken in again with broken promises, and a party that was in business for itself. Canadians have to work much harder at their politics, to scrutinize those vying for power and perhaps demand they be forced out when it’s clear they are not working for us, as is the case now.

The Trans Mountain pipeline twinning is a planet Earth destructive project designed to increase the oil output from the Canada tar sands. It would mean the death of the Salish Sea which is a global hot-spot for ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Atmospheric CO2 is at a 3 to 5 million year high (WMO 2018). To avoid total climate and oceans Earth catastrophe all authoritative sources of climate change mitigation agree that global emissions must be declining now (from 2020 at the very latest). The UN Secretary-General António Guterres if has correctly stated and global climate change is an existential threat to most of life and particularly to humanity (May 2018). Mainly due to deforestation and forest degradation the world has already entered the Sixth mass extinction event of life on Earth (Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines, G. Ceballosa, 2017. Global climate change will further accelerate this annihilation of life on land and in the oceans. Increasing the output and distribution of oil from large unconventional oil deposits will result in the greatest evil ever and is the worst ever crime of all time. The Canada government must not buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and must stop all subsidies to the tar sands industry.

The Koch Brothers are the largest tar sands lease holders. They stand to make over $100 Billion if more pipelines are built. Guess who approved 3 new pipelines? Yes Justin Trudeau. There is not known science that proves you can clean a bitumen spill in ocean waters. But this is what Justin Trudeau told Autumn Peltier. Quote: Twelve-year-old Autumn Peltier broke down in tears as she presented a gift to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of a copper bowl containing a red cloth, some tobacco and a copper cup. She offered the gifts on stage at the Special Chiefs Assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations on traditional Algonquin territory in Gatineau, Que. on Tuesday. Moments later in a televised interview, Peltier said she made it clear to the prime minister that he had let her down. “I said, ‘I’m very unhappy with the choices you’ve made.’ And he said, ‘I understand that.’ And then I started crying, and all I got to say after that was, ‘The pipelines,’” Peltier told Jorge Barrera, a reporter from the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. “And he said ‘I will protect the water,’ and then I went to go sit back down.” https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/12/07/news/i-will-protect-water-trudeau-tells-tearful-12-year-old-girl

Justin Trudeau: please honour your commitment to implement UNDRIP, central to which is the free, prior informed consent indigenous people to all development projects that affect them. You don’t have it in this case. The world is watching!

JT, you are a liar, a weak leader, and I cannot believe that I once voted for you and your party. You presented yourself as a progressive climate hero, as someone who will put the environment first, and as someone who will work together with the First Nations. Well, what you are doing now is the opposite. I am a mother of a five-year old. I will do anything to stand up against the expansion of the KM pipeline. I will do it for my son, for his children, for the future of this world. Now is the time to act and make smart decisions, invest in clean energy, support real change. As other countries around the world (Ne Zealand, Germany, Ireland…) plan the exit from fossil fuels, you want Canada and Canadian taxpayers to invest further in fossil fuels. This, JT, is really poor leadership! I hope one day soon even you and your friends will wake up and realize that your decision was wrong and that we can do better. How can you sleep at night?

Greetings JT, I need to know why you lied to #FN and the #BC about your commitment to #climatechange? Unleashing a carbon bomb in an already fragile environmental area Northern Alberta just proves that you have no intention of reconciliation with #FN and honouring #UNDRIP This #tarsands project further puts #FN communities at risk with their health and food supply. #WaterIsLife Furthermore, putting #BC coastal communities at great risk of a bitumen spill, endangering an already endangered species; killer whales. Plus, all the other marine life. #AB has completely mismanaged their resource sector; from A-Z. Now #BC & #FN are expected to be their sacrificial lamb?!?!? Really!! You sir will go down on the wrong side of history; on so many levels! Every commitment you made in order to get elected has be an enormous lie!!! Legalization of weed! Oh boy; Your big accomplishment! It is unfortunate that you are a complete fraudster. It is also unfortunate that you and your party will go down in the history books as the party that destroyed the west coast, poisoned #FN communities health and water and destroyed our way of life. Nice legacy for your children. #StopTMX

Regards, Jane LeBreton

Mr Prime Minister,
You know very well how the majority of Canadians feel about the ecological health of our country. You know that we want to get out of our dependence on fossil fuels. You know we want preserve the bountiful waters of our lakes, rivers, and streams. You know that we are alarmed and saddened at the decreasing numbers of birds, insects, fish, and creatures of our wilderness areas. You knew these things when you campaigned to become the Prime Minister of Canada. You lead us to believe that you shared our concerns and promised to lead the country into a sunny new future. You would undo the damage done by design and by neglect by Mr. Harper and the Conservative Government. You mislead us. You took advantage of our insights, our awareness, and our belief in your decency.
We voted for you in good faith and with a grateful optimism that at last steps would be taken to avoid the untold damage that global warming, chemical pollution, and
indiscriminate exploitation of our natural resources.
The clock is ticking and some of us have been aware of it for more than 60 years. We do not have time for you to play footsie with the corporate world. It is already too late to avoid great damage to our way of life. What follows that could be extinction.

I often wonder whether that unfortunate aspect of human nature that permits us our collective tunnel vision regarding natural environment degradation, will be our eventual undoing?
Maybe due to Earth’s large size, there seems to be a general oblivious mentality as though even the largest contamination event can somehow be safely absorbed into the environment—air, sea, and land.
For example, it’s largely believed that when released into gritty B.C. coastal waters, diluted bitumen (dilbit) will likely sink to the bottom, as with the 2010 Michigan spill in which dilbit is still being scraped off of the Kalamazoo River floor.
I wonder, could that sinking characteristic perhaps appeal to some people who are usually apathetic towards the natural environment deep below the water surface: i.e. it will no longer be an eyesore after it sinks—i.e. out of sight, out of mind?
It may be the same mentality that allows the immense amount of plastic waste, such as disposable straws, to eventually find its way into our life-filled oceans, where there are few, if any, caring souls to see it.
After all, why worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance, especially when there are various undesirable politicians and significant social issues over which to dispute—distractions our mainstream media seem only too willing to provide us?
Besides, what back and brain busting, home-mortgaged labourer sustains the energy to worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance?
I see it somewhat analogous to a cafeteria lineup consisting of diversely societally represented people, all adamantly arguing over which identifiable traditionally marginalized person should be at the front and, conversely, at the back of the line; and, furthermore, to whom amongst them should go the last piece of quality pie—all the while the interstellar spaceship on which they’re all permanently confined is burning and toxifying at locations rarely investigated.
As a species, we really can be so heavily preoccupied with our own individual admittedly overwhelming little worlds, that we’ll miss the biggest of pictures.

Mr. Trudeau, I am member of Canada’s oldest cohort. I can remember when the fossil fuel industry was picking up steam and promising us a miraculous future. I can also remember the 1960’s when the young organization Pollution Probe was warning of the probable environmental and and pollution consequences of unchecked fossil fuel use. I have lived through the restriction of government power and efficacy as corporations grew, leaving Canadians increasingly out of the decision making loop. It is within my lifetime that our species has chosen to put the health of our planet and all its living things at risk, misunderstanding and/or ignoring the growing threat. You have an opportunity to push for a healthier and safer way of life. Please let the Trans Mountain Pipeline die a natural death and invest Canadians’ tax dollars instead in a way that will bless coming generations rather than burden them. You spoke like a hero in your campaign. Now you have the chance to act like one. Please, do.

Young people are speaking up at public gatherings and what many of them are saying is that they cast their votes for the Liberal Party of Canada because they believed what Justin Trudeau was promising in the campaign. Many voted for the first time because they beleived that positive change was eminent. Well, that didn’t last long. Many feel that they had been had and feel that they have been slapped down by the current prime minister. They gave him their votes based on his promises and his convincing assertions that he was about doing things differently. Betrayal and deceit were not characteristics in a leader that they were looking for. They opened their hearts to a man they thought they could trust. In return they recieved a man “cellophane wrapped in frozen superficiality”.

It is time to stop the blind support of the dying oil industry. The speed that the world is and needs to convert to a carbon free energy is accelerating. Look at other leading countries like Ireland, or even another country with the same climate issues as we have of Denmark or Sweden. The oil industry has been for years in decline when it comes to jobs, or revenue to governments. While the green tech industries are steadily creating jobs. Right now there are more people employed in green tech in Alberta than there is employed in the oil sands.

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“Put bluntly, the business case for the Trans Mountain expansion project is predicated on a world of unchecked global warming. In approving infrastructure that promises to increase Canada’s bitumen exports for decades to come, the federal government is not reconciling the environment and economy but, rather, placing a bet against the success of the Paris climate agreement.” (Kathryn Harrison, Globe & Mail, Nov 30, 2016)

Climate leaders don’t build pipelines.

It is clear that protection and enhancement of Pacific coast wild stock fisheries, marine ecology and respect for first nations guaranteed rights are in our national interest too a greater degree than subsidizing and exporting a declining demand for dilbit fossil fuels through a risk filled pipeline.

Prove you aren’t in the pocket of the oil & gas industry – go back to your campaign promise or you will forever be branded a LIAR. You’re currently behaving like Harper and Gord Downie must be turning in his grave. If you like to surf in Tofino so much, why endanger it – oh right only money matters to you. Go ahead…prove me wrong.

A 4.5 Billion dollar commitment to the development of alternative fuel sources would go a very long way , would be a job creator, would be good for the environment — I have difficulty finding a viable downside to the elimination of fossil fuels! The issue is that the government MUST demonstrate a political will that will support the elimination of fossil fuels and that commitment has not been forthcoming. Yes the transition from fossil fuels will be difficult but it is not a impossible goal.