No Fracking Way!
A panel of experts will talk about fracking taking place in Northern B.C,
its effects and what we can do to try to stop its devastating impact on
our water and the environment.
Wednesday March 16th, 7pm.
Vancouver Public Library Downtown
(Alma Van Dusen/Peter Kaye Rooms)
Free Admission.
Speakers:
Ben Parfitt,
resource policy analyst with the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives. Ben is the author of Fracture Lines: Will Canada’s
Water be Protected in the Rush to Develop Shale Gas?, conducted for the
Program on Water issues, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of
Toronto. He is currently preparing a major paper on this topic for CCPA.
Caleb Behn,
a law student currently working at Woodward and Company, who comes from
the West Moberly and Fort Nelson First Nations. He will be presenting
the ongoing struggle against fracking that indigenous communities are
engaged in and address the impact of resource development more broadly,
in north eastern BC. He has experience working as a lands manager for
the Saulteau First Nation at Moberly Lake and highly values the
traditional knowledge passed on to him by his grandparents.
Sponsored by the Vancouver/Burnaby Chapter of the Council of Canadians as part of World Water Day, 2011
www.vancouvercouncilofcanadians.ca
