Sunday 6 March 2011

Link for Bill C-606

http://joycemurray.ca/support-c606/

Just wanted to post a link to the page for a petition supporting Bill C-606.  This is a private member's bill which restricts tanker traffic on the north coast.   Read up on it; it bans crude oil tanker traffic in Queen Charlotte Sound, The Dixon Entrance, and Hecate Strait.  This is important because it would mean that the supertankers slated to bring oil from the Northern Gateway Pipeline that Enbridge wants to build to Kitimat from the Oil Sands canèt actually get to Kitimat, effectively ending the project before it can get started.

Realistically, this thing isn't going to pass in the legislature, but we can all give it some street cred on it's way in by signing it.  It's a lot harder to ignore something if it's got a lot of signatures on it.  Even if it does pass in the legislature, it will probably get killed in the senate, just like the climate change accountability act.  What a piece of dirty business that was!

Pass this on!  The more people we can cram on it the better.  Find new ways to get it exposed, email it around.  Even people from other provinces can sign it. Talk to your MP, tell him or her what you think about this thing. Talk to your MLA too, the provincial government has as big a stake in the future of our coast or bigger than the feds anyway.

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