Fight Climate Change and Save the Salish Sea (date correction)

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November 29 at 7 PM - 9 PM

Library Square Public House
300 West Georgia Street at Homer, Vancouver

Over a dozen new or expanded oil, coal or LNG facilities have been proposed or approved on the shores of the Salish Sea. If all the proposals in the region were approved, the Pacific Northwest would become one of the largest fossil fuel exporters in the world. Whether Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker project, coal terminals, or LNG facilities, these projects threaten our region in two ways. Directly by human health and ecosystem impacts, threats of accidents, leaks and spills, and increased shipping traffic; and indirectly through the rising tide of climate change that is already reshaping our region, with much more to come. 

These proposals will continue to proliferate as long as money can be made. It’s up to us to stop this and, importantly, it can be done. Thousands are standing up to Kinder Morgan, and BC has fought off Enbridge, coal mines and LNG proposals already. In the US, activists in one Washington State county are helping hold back projects with carbon pollution equaling twice the amount of what the entire state produces annually. 

Georgia Strait Alliance and Stand are hosting a special panel discussion about what we can do to stop all of these projects and we’d like you to be there.

We’ll be talking about what they did in Whatcom County, and how we can build grassroots resistance in communities on this side of the border. About how, together, we can ensure that fossil fuel companies meet a wall of opposition up and down the West Coast, and put in place a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure in the Salish Sea. 

Join us in the Alma Van Dusen and Peter Kaye rooms!