First published on Ecorport
While the United States was dragged into the internal conflict of XL Keystone, five more pipelines were proposed in Canada. Two of them can go to British Columbia. Faced with the objections of local communities and the first countries along the route, the provincial authorities made a plan to place pipes through public parks. This requires a rule, which the Government tried to do it very quietly, but the wildlife had discovered. (You can read more about this This And This. This was a press release that was released that day. I have illustrated photos from some parks that may be affected. 166,000 people request to abolish the BC park amendment law.
Victoria – a large proposal of 166,000 characteristics calling for abolition of the park amendment law, allowing industrial research at provincial parks, has been transferred to the provincial authorities by supporters of the park. head.
The petition is said to be one of the largest environmental petitions, if not the biggest ever to be submitted to the province.
Like 166,000 people who signed this petition, I was horrified that the BC Government would sell our parks for industrial benefits like petitioning petroleum companies. The BC government knows this cunning law will make Morgan and other pipes more easily built. That is why we need to fight again.
The Park Amendment Act, adopted on March 24, allows industrial research clearly at parks, previously banned. The law facilitates the removal of park land for a range of industrial activities, including timber development and exploitation.
Minister Polak admitted that in the record, there was no consultation because the government has granted a license without any legal basis, Peter Wood of the Canadian Park and Wild Area said. Instead of maintaining its own law, the Government has gone and changed it according to the needs of the industry.
More than 30 parks have been given the boundaries for industrial purposes by the BC government for industrial purposes. Kinder Morgan, a huge pipeline company, has a license to use the park to conduct invasive research in five in five protected areas in BC.
Al Martin, director of the strategic initiative at the BC Wildlife Federation, said that research in parks should check the benefits of maintaining these natural assets, not valid immediately Instant of handling them.
The BC government has participated in controversial laws with just four days of debate, a total of more than eight hours. More importantly, there is no community consultation before introducing the law.
BC BC Park is created to protect special places; Gwen Barlee, policy director of the Wildlife Commission, said that not divided by oil pipes and wood exploitation roads, Mr. Gwen Barlee, policy director of the wildlife committee said. The Park Amendment Act launches the door for industrial development in our protected areas and is simply unacceptable for the majority of British Columbia.
Bob PearT, CEO of Sierra Club BC, said that the public reaction to this obnoxious law shows that everyone inside and outside BC cares about our world famous park system like our world famous. how. The British British Columbia will not stand still while the government shed tears what lost more than a hundred years to build. The government needs to listen and protect our parks from industrial development.
The following groups have helped the organization and promote the petition:
- BC Wildlife Federation,
- Canada Wildlife Association and Association,
- Forest ethics,
- Friends of Strathcona Park,
- Sierra BC Club,
- Wildlife committee,
- Wildsight
- Yukstone conservation initiative to Yukon.
The petition can be found at http://action.sumofus.org/a/bc- Park-open-oil-gas-mining/.