Clayoquot Action Campaigns Director Will Be Arrested Today Demonstrating Opposition to Kinder Morgan
Clayoquot Supporters Say Pipeline Expansion Threatens West Coast Wilderness, Rainforest.
Burnaby, BC – Imagine an oil spill staining the sands of Long Beach or despoiling the pristine waters of Clayoquot Sound.
The impact of the Kinder Morgan pipeline reaches far beyond Burnaby Mountain and representatives of Clayoquot Action have travelled from Tofino to make sure their message is heard.
Clayoquot Action campaigns director Bonny Glambeck will be arrested midday today on Burnaby Mountain for peacefully protesting Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion.
“The expansion of the pipeline would dramatically increase tanker traffic on the west coast placing Clayoquot Sound’s iconic rainforest and surf beaches at risk,” says Glambeck. “I am crossing the line today to send a message to Kinder Morgan—that this pipeline will not be built. It won’t be built because the people of this province realize we need to chart a different course—away from fossil fuels, toward a low-carbon future”.
Long-time Tofino resident Glambeck, an organiser of the 1993 Clayoquot mass protests, stressed the importance of protests remaining peaceful. “The reason the Clayoquot protests were so effective is that they were peaceful, in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King”, she said.
The Clayoquot Summer 1993 protests lasted three months. Ten thousand people attended the Peace Camp, with nearly a thousand choosing to be arrested.
Bonny Glambeck, Campaigns Director 250-534-9453
Dan Lewis, Executive Director 250-726-8136