Civil disobedience promised if Northern Gateway goes ahead before court cases are finished
Posted June 18, 2014 6:56 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Some environmental groups are promising civil disobedience if Enbridge starts to build the Northern Gateway line before the court cases are finished.
John Bennett of the Sierra Club says environmentalists won’t allow a repeat of what happened in Alberta’s Oldman Dam, whereby the time the issue got to the Supreme Court, the dam was built.
“I fully expect there’ll be people… sitting down in the way of the bulldozers, making it impossible for this to go forward,” he tells us.
“We will, as we go along, be training folks,” says Mike Hudema of Greenpeace, who tells us they’ll lobby Premier Christy Clark for a referendum, but is prepared to go further.
“If it does come to that, we will support First Nations and people in British Columbia to defend the land and to defend the coast of BC and the coastal economies that depend on a clean BC coast.”
Meantime, Will Horter with the Dogwood Initiative is promising to launch a direct democracy initiative like the one that killed the HST.
“The joint review panel had 1,161 submissions… 99.8 per cent of them were opposed to the project. So they’re tone-deaf to what’s actually going on in British Columbia and [we] actually think this is going to be the biggest mistake Stephen Harper’s ever made.”
He says the federal Conservatives are about to discover most British Columbians are deeply opposed to the project.
