The potential Northern Gateway pipeline is a major concern for many of the people that I speak with.

Last month I sent out a number of mailings with information about oil spills and the Northen Gateway Pipeline. I have attached them to this post in case you would like to take a look at some of the information you may not have received.

My BC colleagues and I have been working hard to continually raise the issue in Parliament and with the Prime Minister.

If you would like to help, please sign on to save our coast at www.ndp.ca.

MPs to attend Enbridge pipeline hearing and tour proposed oil tanker route 

VANCOUVER — New Democrat MPs from British Columbia were joined by NDP Deputy Leader and Environment Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax) as they kicked off a tour of BC focussed on environmental issues.

Opposing the Northern Gateway Project

As your MP, I am opposing the Northern Gateway proposal to build a pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to BC’s north coast. I want to tell you why.

This pipeline would cross some 1,000 rivers and streams, including sensitive salmon spawning habitat. Even small leaks could be devastating—and could go undetected for long stretches in this rugged terrain.

This pipeline would move some 525,000 barrels of raw bitumen to the coast each day. From there, it would be loaded onto supertankers for shipment overseas.

Prepared by Parliamentary Affairs.

What is this project?

Northern Gateway would move 525,000 barrels a day of oil sands-derived crude 1,177 km across the Rocky Mountains from Bruderheim, Alberta, near Edmonton, to Kitimat on British Columbia's coast. At Kitimat, the oil would be loaded on to supertankers and shipped through the Douglas Channel to the Pacific and on to Asia, or along the West Coast to California.

As part of our ongoing campaign to oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project, please see below for a letter from the BC Caucus to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel.