B.C. Central Coast Chamber of Commerce
Opposes Enbridge Pipeline Proposal
by CCCC
BC Central Coast Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) declares its opposition to the proposed ENBRIDGE NORTHERN GATEWAY TAR SANDS PIPELINE/TANKER MEGA-PROJECT:
"The Central Coast Chamber of Commerce strongly condemns and opposes the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway mega-project and associated Oil Tanker traffic along the BC Coast. We are opposed to the project due to its inevitable and horrific social, economic and environmental consequences. We issue this statement in solidarity with the recent unanimous declaration by BC's Coastal First Nations."
The resolution was first proposed at the 2009 CCCC AGM, and was discussed during three subsequent meetings. A community public meeting was held where issues regarding the project were presented and discussed. Enbridge INC were invited to send a representative to the meeting but they declined.
Sincerely,
Central Coast Chamber of Commerce
Denny Island in the Great Bear Rainforest
Press Release
June 24, 2010
Backgrounder:
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project envisions two 1170 km
pipelines between Bruderheim Alberta and Kitimat BC. One pipeline is
planned to deliver 525,000 barrels daily of tar-sands bitumen
oil-product to Kitimat, to be loaded onto several hundred per year,
giant super-tankers. The sister pipeline would deliver drilling and
pipeline fluids the other way to Alberta. This would create a veritable
super-tanker traffic jam in the narrow fiords and rock-strewn shorelines
and amongst the magnificent wilderness island archipelago that is the
BC Central Coast. A single, inevitable mistake will cause an ecological
catastrophe that will destroy one of our Earth's most magnificent
remaining wilderness areas.
The Central Coast Chamber of Commerce statement uniquely contradicts the
directive of the BC Chamber of Commerce, which states that BC Chambers
of Commerce "support off-shore oil and gas development along the BC
Coast." Additionally, several Chambers of Commerce alongside the
proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway route have made statements in support
of the pipeline.
It should be noted that this statement was worked out prior to the
current oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, although it is clear to
members that such is an inevitable, unstoppable result of such
development.
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