Defend Our Climate, Defend Our Communities Actions
There are numerous coal, fracking and tar sands development projects being pushed by government and industry in Canada including 6 pipelines: Energy East, Line 9, and the Great Lakes pipelines cross most of Canada's population's drinking water on their way to the East Coast; Kinder Morgan and Enbridge Northern Gateway will dramatically increase oil tanker traffic on British Columbia's coast, and Keystone XL runs from Saskatchewan through the heartland of the US. Not only do they carry heavy highly corrosive bitumen mixed with toxic chemicals that will have devastating health and environmental impacts in the event of a spill, they are projects that lock us into a fossil fuel dependent, dead-end economy while enabling tar sands growth that will destabilize our planet's climate.