CHN PRESS RELEASE: ACCUMULATING IMPACTS: HAIDA HAVE GOOD REASON TO OPPOSE LNG & ENB MEGAPROJECTS

The Council of the Haida Nation have made available a press release detailing the strategies LNG and Pipeline companies use to pursue ‘social license.’  On their own position, the CHN states:

“There are many good reasons to oppose these projects and few to support them. The perceived

benefits in no way trump what we know we will lose. Our Nation has done its due diligence; we have spoken

to BC and Canada, we have looked at the environmental, social and legal impacts of these projects and are not

convinced that shipping LNG or oil from the west coast is a good idea. These projects will further pollute the

Earth and no good will come of them.”

To view the full press release, please see: CHN_LNG_ENB_Final

Council of the Haida Nation: AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE RELIANT ON SALMON

Please read this open letter from the Council to the Haida Nation regarding the efforts companies like Enbridge are making to buy people off from First Nations communities in order to push their pipeline through.

Download:  AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE RELIANT ON SALMON

CoASt T-Shirts Now Available Online

Haida Gwaii CoASt is now trying out an online store to sell our t-shirt designs.  Check out our new site at spreadshirt.ca:

 

haidagwaiicoast.spreadshirt.ca

As always, our t-shirts raise funds for CoASt anti-tanker activities, like our upcoming anti-tanker design competition.

Our first design is the Hull and Bones design donated by Gwaai Edenshaw.

If you order one, please let us know your feedback.  Haaw’a!

Nations United Against Enbridge T-shirt Campaign Launched at All Native Basketball Tournament

The Haida delegation at this year’s All Native Basketball Tournament brought T-Shirts with them promoting unity amongst First Nations on the coast. Members of Haida Gwaii CoASt screen printed the Tees in Masset to get a strong message out that we don’t want the pollution of our waters brought on by supertankers.

Watch for more T-Shirt and sticker campaigns in the upcoming months.  Let’s get the word out that we don’t need tarsands bitumen travelling through our waters. We want healthy salmon, killerwhales and people!

Think Tankers: Riki Ott Speaks About the Exxon Valdez Spill in Haida Gwaii

Want to know more about what happened in Alaska when the Exxon Valdez Spilled a supertanker of oil?  How about what’s going on now?  Come and see Riki Ott speak in Masset and Charlotte about her own experiences with clean-up and as an “incidental activist.”  This event is supported by CoASt and the TBuck Suzuki Foundation.

 

Queen Charlotte

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 7:00 pm
Queen B’s Cafe, 3208 Wharf Street

Masset

Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:00 pm
The Haven, Harrison Ave (above Green Gaia)

Download the poster HG Think Tankers.

Van Observer Writers Publishing eBook on Coastal Pipeline Proposals

Need some straight facts to back up your opposition to Enbridge and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposals?  Vancouver Observer journalist Carrie Saxifrage will be editing an eBook that will offer just that.  Providing an alternative to Enbridge and KMP’s highly funded PR campaigns, the eBook will explore the long-term effects of oil spills like the Exxon Valdez and their possible impacts up and down the coast as well as revealing the many half-truths and snow jobs the two companies are selling to the public.

The new eBook, featuring a foreword by former Greenpeace International campaign director Tzeporah Berman, will be put together through an online campaign you can donate to at indigogo.com.  To learn about the project, get involved, or donate, go to:

http://igg.me/p/127271