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This is a group to start sharing information, news and organizing strategies regarding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline and to stay connected within other no tar sands, no pipelines, and no tankers campaigns.
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Oil Companies continue in their efforts to get Tar Sands to the West Coast despite the major opposition to Enbridge Northern GatewaySince 2005, Kinder Morgan has been transporting tar sands crude through the Trans Mountain Pipeline, out to Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Worse in February 2012 they announced plans to twin the infrastructure boosting tar sands transport to 700,000 barrels per day.The Trans Mountain pipeline was built in the early 1950s, but has been owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Canada Inc. since 2005. It begins in Edmonton, Alberta and crosses the Rockies Mountains, 98 streams and rivers, and numerous communities before it comes out in the Burrard Inlet of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, where since 2005 the amount of oil tankers exporting the crude oil has increased from 22 to 79 tankers in 2010. Twinning the infrastructure would bring hundreds of tankers annually, increasing the risk of numerous disasters and guaranteeing an increase in spills. Since Tar Sands has started pumping through the existing pipeline, in 2005, there has been 4 spills in the Fraser Valley alone.Although set up as a multi-use pipeline for jet fuel, natural gas and oil, the pipeline has been increasingly carrying tar sands crude in the form of diluted bitumen aka dil-bit. Tar sands oil, or Dil-Bit is different from conventional oil. Dil-Bit is a mixture of unrefined tar that is often heavier than water and “diluents”, a cocktail of volatile carcinogenic solvents allows the thick bitumen to be pumped through the pipeline. Dil-Bit is heavier than water and if spilled in water would sink, making it even harder to ‘clean up’ than conventional oil.Despite the reality that doubling the existing pipeline would mean digging up lands, damning rivers and disturbing major community infrastructure, Kinder Morgan announced in February 2012 plans to expand their pipeline despite no consultation with local communities along the route.This group is just a first step to start sharing information, news and organizing strategies regarding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline and to stay connected within other no tar sands, no pipelines, and no tankers campaigns.Email: pipeup.net@gmail.com-
Visit us at http://pipe-up.net/ – https://www.facebook.com/stoptheflow – https://twitter.com/PipeUpNetwork A group to start sharing information, news and organizing strategies regarding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline…
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Visit us at http://pipe-up.net/
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