Are they freaking kidding?
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- Published on Sunday, 20 December 2015 07:15
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You were one of the over 200,000 SumOfUs members who took a stand to protect Canada’s east coast, and called on the Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board to reject Shell’s application to drill off of the coast of Nova Scotia.
Together, we spoke out against the sheer recklessness of Shell’s plan. In the case of a spill, emergency equipment will take weeks to arrive, causing untold damage to coastal livelihoods and ecosystems.
We got together with some of our partners at Greenpeace Canada, the Clean Ocean Action Committee, and the Halifax Ecology Action Centre, and took our message straight to the CNSPOB.
As the most recent drilling permits go ahead, we will do everything we can to keep up the public pressure. You can betthe CNSOPB knows there is a large, vocal, and savvy opposition to these dangerous and short-sighted proposals.
In the next few months Shell, and the CNSOPB, want to open up more and more of the fragile coast to further drilling. And we’re not going to let them.
Now more than ever, our movement is determined to stop Shell’s plans to drill in the most precious ecosystems on earth.
Thank you for standing up to Shell,
Paul, Ledys, Rosa and the rest of us
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More information:
Environmental groups protest N.S. offshore board Shell decision, CBC News, November 25th 2015.
Nearly 250,000 sign petition against Shell's offshore plans, The Chronicle Herald, November 25th 2015.
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