KITIMAT (NEWS1130) - A team of kayakers who are dead set against a proposed oil pipeline will be travelling across the length of the B.C. coast to get their message across. They'll be setting out on their journey on Wednesday.
The four Vancouver paddlers call the 900-kilometre trip through unpredictable weather and rough water the Pipe Dreams Project.
Ryan Vandecasteyen says they'll start in Kitimat, and weather permitting, they'll end up in Vancouver three months later. "We're gonna be, probably, facing some big weather along the way. We're stocked full of supplies. We've sort of planned it out so that we can have lots of bad weather days just sitting on the beach, waiting for storms to blow through."
Enbridge Canada is proposing a twin pipeline to carry oil from Edmonton to Kitimat. Enbridge is the same company whose underground pipeline in Michigan spilled about 19,500 barrels of oil into the Kalamazoo River.
Vandecasteyen says the pipeline is still in the proposal stage, so he's trying to raise awareness now.