Enbridge
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- Published on Thursday, 08 May 2014 17:00
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Enbridge’s risky pipeline and tanker project could be approved within weeks -- despite powerful and growing opposition.
Why? Because Harper's stacked the deck in favour of the project by rewriting Canada's environmental laws. And because Enbridge is spending millions in an agressive PR offensive to make sure it gets its way.
Enbridge thinks it can buy off our elections and our democracy. We need to show Enbrige -- and Harper's government -- that it won't work.
That's why this Saturday, May 10th, we're coming together across Canada to speak out. Thousands of us will raise our voices and stand together against pipelines, tankers and extreme energy projects. The more that we can show our strength in numbers to Enbridge and Harper, the more chance we have of stopping these risky projects.
The Harper government and Enbridge have proven time and time again that they will do almost anything to get their way -- from changing environmental laws to trying to buy elections. Harper already slashed protections to endangered humpback whales to make it easier to ram through the Enbridge pipeline.
And the stakes just got even higher: The Obama administration has delayed the Keystone XL project again to study the environmental impacts of the project, and a BC First Nation just launched a massive legal challenge against Kinder Morgan for its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline through Vancouver. So we’ve teamed up with our allies at Leadnow.ca to make this the biggest movement against pipelines Canada has ever seen.
There is already an unbroken wall of First Nations who have vowed to block the Enbridge project, the town of Kitimat just voted against the proposal, and tens of thousands of Canadians like us have stepped up against pipelines and tankers. It’s inspiring to see the movement growing.
From calling out Enbridge for deleting islands from its public safety videos to fighting against Big Oil’s influence on our children’s education, the SumOfUs.org community exists to fight for corporate accountability and we are winning when we fight back against the petrostate. With just weeks to go before the Enbridge announcement, the best chance we have to stop this project is to come together like we never have before. Already there are 53 events happening across the country with more being announced each day.
Click here to RSVP for an event this Saturday to say no to Enbridge.
Thanks for all that you do,
Angus and the rest of us.
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More Information:
Enbridge Opponents Prepare for ‘Show-Down’ on Gateway Pipeline, Bloomberg Business News, May 7th, 2014.
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