The pipeline operator is working overtime to turn its Northern Gateway initiative into some abstract debate on resource wealth and opportunity (for some). It even produces animated video that greets viewers with totally misleading images. Here's what Enbridge, Alberta, and Ottawa don't want you thinking about.
*This is not an Enbridge animation from Shortt and Epic Productions on Vimeo.
Update - a week+ later. Now we're learning that veteran Conservative ministers are sensing that Harper is losing control of bitumen trafficking in British Columbia. They see Harper, in a "best case" scenario, left clinging to some bare minority should he lose BC in trying to sacrifice her to Alberta and Big Oil.
As a proud denizen of the coast I can tell you that most of us were less influenced by what Harper might do to us for opposing than what failing to stand up for British Columbia could mean to our grandkids. We began with the premise that this has to be stopped. What remains to be seen is how disastrously we can clog up Harper's penal/criminal justice system and for how many generations that will transform this province into electoral scorched earth for the Cons.
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We the people of BC would give up our lives and are intending to do so to save BC. BC is that important to us, if it means I get shot by a Chinese or American veteran soldier protecting this land, I am prepared to do so. The more of us they kill the harder it will be for them to continue this outrage against the planet and her indigenous peoples.
The fight has not yet begun in earnest, when they approve the Enbridge Red Chinese Northern Gateway plan all hell will break loose. I intend to be on the front lines of the battle to save our planet from this rich mans madness.
Mogs, do us both a huge favour and step it down a few notches. The way to stop this is through mass, non-violent civil disobedience. We stand together. They have to cart us off to jail by the hundreds, eventually by thousands. We simply overwhelm their capacity to arrest and incarcerate us. And with every previously law-abiding son, father, and grandmother slung into jail, their grandkids, their children, and their brothers and sisters will join ranks to take their place. That's the way we stop this.
Extremism will only be exploited by Harper, Redford and Enbridge.
Personally M of S I'd rather die tryin than have to explain myself as an old man who sat around and whined about what is going on and did nothing...
Fight your pacifist way and I coming from a long line of military families on both sides will fight mine and you can't judge me for that. Pacifism has gotten us enslaved and well I'm darned tired of it are you not?
And hell no I won't rot in jail, if you haven't already seen the lessons of Guantanamo and the problems a fellow like Julian Assange is having, it may be too late and have fun in jail, I won't judge you and ask for the same respect in return. My life is almost over anyway and I want to help my home planet Earth the best I can, after all she has provided for me wonderfully, can you say that?. We need to make more noise than just these blogs to get peoples attention.
Sorry to say this, Mogs, but your approach plays straight into their hand. It allows them to brand the opposition as radical, extremist, violent - a threat to society - and that wins them a good deal of popular support.
You underestimate their abilities, resources and ruthlessness, Mogs. There's already a task force operating comprising Alberta police forces, the RCMP and our national spy service, CSIS, that is working to identify radicals and it would not surprise me that comments like yours come to their attention.
All you can achieve is to set back the rest of us.
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