Thousands Apply to Participate in Kinder Morgan Pipeline Hearing In Spite of Hurdles

In the short few weeks we were given to apply to submit comments to Canada's National Energy Board's (NEB) hearing on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline 2,134 people successfully applied. Looks like the intimidation tactics by the Harper Government surrounding the application process aren't paying off very well for them.

Now it's time for us to support those 2,134 applicants by urging the NEB to accept their applications and make this hearing process more inclusive. Add your name to our letter before the March 30 deadline!

Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline proposal gave us the first glimpse at how the comment application period would go now that the Harper Government has changed the NEB's rules to make it harder for us to speak out. And now Texas-based Kinder Morgan has proposed building a tar sands pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver that threatens British Columbia's pristine beauty with pipeline ruptures and another 400 oil tankers a year navigating the rough waters of the Pacific Coast. 

But before the NEB decides who gets to comment and who doesn't on this major Kinder Morgan project, ForestEthics Advocacy is going to submit an official request urging it to make this hearing more inclusive and allow for discussion on climate.

Short timelines, tedious application processes, and the threat of having our voices deemed irrelevant from the conversation are not going to silence our voices. We will not allow Harper to sacrifice our free speech for the benefit of oil companies like Kinder Morgan and Enbridge.

Join us in speaking out to the NEB before March 30. We must submit it by March 30 in order for it to have an impact on the application in mid-April. If we don't stand up for our right to be included in this public process we'll soon see ourselves battling Trans Canada's Energy East proposal under the same undemocratic laws.