International Town Hall Meeting

An international town hall meeting, will be taking place simultaneously on either side of the Kinder Morgan tar sands tanker route through the Salish Sea on San Juan Island, WA and near Victoria, BC.

Kinder Morgan’s plan to build a new tar sands pipeline to the coast and proposals to increase coal shipments from ports on the Lower Mainland and the US could turn the Salish Sea into a major corridor for fossil fuel exports. A massive increase in tanker and coal ship traffic would drastically raise the threat of a catastrophic oil spill that would devastate the marine environment, coastal communities, and the regional economy.

The ocean, the marine life it supports, and our shared atmosphere that are all threatened by these proposals don’t recognize the Canada-US border. In our opposition to these shortsighted, climate-changing projects and our advocacy for a better, cleaner future, we must also treat the Salish Sea as a single region, and that means organizing across jurisdictional boundaries.

Join us on Wednesday, August 21 to learn more about fossil fuel export proposals that will affect the Salish Sea, what’s happening on both sides of the border to protect this region, and how you can get involved.

When: Wednesday August 21, at Noon
Where: Lime Kiln Lighthouse, San Juan Island, WA
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Presented by:
Wilderness Committee
Georgia Strait Alliance
Friends of the San Juans
www.salishseaaction.org

Contact for more info:
[email protected]
360-378-2319

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250-516-9900

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