Vision Vancouver posts online petition against Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion

by Stephen Hui on April 25th, 2012 at 2:09 PM

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The City of Vancouver's governing party is opposed to the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain oil pipeline, and it's seeking the help of the online masses to stop the project.

Vision Vancouver posted on Tuesday (April 24) an e-petition called "Help stop the expansion of tanker traffic in Vancouver!" Addressed to the National Energy Board, the petition states:

Texas-based Kinder Morgan wants to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline to ship more Tar Sands oil through Vancouver. The proposed expansion would increase tanker traffic fivefold, dramatically increasing the chances of a devastating oil spill. A spill in Vancouver Harbour, Burrard Inlet, or the Fraser River would devastate iconic Stanley Park and local species and breeding habitat, have a disastrous impact on our tourism industry, and threaten port jobs.
Vancouverites do not want to see our city become a huge oil port. The expansion of the pipeline and tanker traffic is at odds with our identity, our values, the economy we have and the greener future we are building. The risk of an oil spill threatens the livelihood of our city and the splendor of our surroundings. Let’s keep Vancouver green!

So far, 490 people have signed the petition, which has a goal of only 5,000, for some reason.

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Comments

17 Comments

Fillmorre

Apr 25, 2012 at 2:24pm

So you tell us there's a petition, but you don't post the link to it????

NOOB move.

So...

Apr 25, 2012 at 2:26pm

Is there a link to the petition? Where do I sign?

Emily Cat

Apr 25, 2012 at 2:58pm

Kinder Morgan Petition is here

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/700/743/331/help-stop-the-expansion-of-ta...

Astro

Apr 25, 2012 at 3:01pm

Vision Vancouver better watch out as it may be attacked by Harper and Ethical Oil the way David Suzuki is being attacked.

Angela Henderson

Apr 25, 2012 at 3:59pm

click on the hyper-link where it says e-petition

violet9ish

Apr 25, 2012 at 4:05pm

click the live link in the 2nd paragraph of the article.

NOOB.

Use your Brains

Apr 25, 2012 at 5:51pm

This looks a lot like posturing and Eco - Baloney Bravado by Mayor Moonbeam and the Double Vision folks.

For one thing, the pipeline does not touch on any Vancouver Land and Vancouver City Hall has absolutely no jurisdiction over the current or expanded pipeline.

OK, so you want to be Eco - Minded, build good student housing at UBC and SFU for say 50,000 - 75,000 students, on the Endowment Lands and right at SFU.

Think about it, if we average say, 1 gallon of gas to go to and 1 gallon of gas to go from these Universities, good student housing immediately adjacent to these campuses, would save at least 100,000 gallons / day for 150 days of the year.

15,000,000 million gallons of gas per year, in perpetuity, Now that's cooking with gas, as they say on the flat land.

That's ecology, that's energy conservation and this petition is just Eco - Baloney.