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Stop the Flows
Dispatch No.1

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Oil Getaway

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The oil industry is a dirty business.

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The governor of Montana is expected
to detour the damaged

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to areas today of that oil spill.

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One of the great western rivers
now stained in oil.

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A Calhoun county river rushing with a sheen
of oil tonight.

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People still haven´t forgotten the disastrous

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BP oil spill of the gulf coast
of the US in 2010.

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But tanker accidents and pipeline
raptures happen frequently

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and spill thousands of liters of oil
to densely populated areas,

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rivers and natural environments.

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So it´s no wonder why people are
coming together

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to opose megaprojects that will bring oil
and gas infrastructure to their communities.

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Others see a position to these oil
freeways

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as a way to show us solidarity with
communities fighting industrial expansion.

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The main reason we oppose these projects

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is because this is the dirtiest project
on the planet - the tar sands.

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And we are standing in solidarity with people

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affected and impacted currently by
tar sands developments.

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And we understand that the volumes

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proposed to be transported through
our territories either by pipelines

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or also pipelines on rail, that would
facilitate the expansion of the tar sands.

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The building of oil and gas infrastructure

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also has global implications.

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Climate scientists warn of the ecological
catastrophy that planet faces

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if greenhouse gas emisions are not
stopped.

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In the face of overwhelming scientific
evidence, governments

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and corporations continue to fight wars

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and destroy lands, to extract and
burn hydrocarbons.

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All the while big environmental groups
cut deals with industry

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and claim false victories
in the name of the Earth.

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It is increasingly clear that the only
hope for our planet

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is for uncompromising resistance
movements to organize

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outside of mainstream environmentalism
and fight to win.

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In august of 2011 over a thousand people

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including some high profile celebrities

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voluntarily handed themselves over to
the cops in Washington D.C.

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to try to stop the proposed
Keystone XL pipeline.

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Around the same time the US State Departement
issued a statement

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saying, that the proposed project will have
no significant impact

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on the environment.

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Hinting that the US government
is ready to rubber stamp Keystone XL.

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This was a wakeup call for activists.

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That it will take more than
non-violent civil disobedience

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to stop new pipelines.

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If approved, the Keystone XL

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would bring millions of barrels of
tar sands oil from Canada

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through the US.

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And some 840 000 gallons of oil
continues to flow

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down the Kalamazoo River.

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Last year, Enbridge had a spill in the
Kalamazoo and it was a disaster.

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A river that the community had spent

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decades cleaning up and making into a really

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wonderful place for people for fishing

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and for leisure activities,
suddenly became unusable,

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because Enbridge spilled thousands
of liters of diluted bichamen

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into the Kalamazoo River and it´s still
not safe to eat fish from that river.

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Enbridge has proposed a pipeline project
called the Northern Gateway,

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that will begin in Alberta
and traverse through

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central British Columbia,

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bringing unrefined oil from the tar sands

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to the pacific coast of Canada.

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This pipeline is proposed to cross a number
of rivers and streams.

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If there were a spill or a construction
impact on water quality,

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the effects could be felt downstream.

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Especially because of the migration of fish
and wildlife.

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Not only does Northern Gateway
pose a threat to ecospheres in B.C.,

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if would also encroach on the sovereignty

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of indigenous peoples lands.

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Most of the lands the pipeline will cross
in B.C., were never surrendered

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or ceded to governments.

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This includes the lands of the Uni´sto´ten
clan of the Wet'suet'en Nation,

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whose territory includes
parts of the Maurice river.

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We have never ceded or surrendered 
our lands to anybody here.

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There is no treaty, there is no relationship
built with any government

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in the past, none of our people signed
anything to let them make

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decisions on our territory.

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This is Wetsueten land.

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This is not Canada, this is not B.C.

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What we are standing on is Unistoten
territory.

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And this river is probably one of the top
rivers that we can drink

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directly from. It is not a whole lot of these
rivers in the world left.

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Even though they say it´s safe,
we have been hearing all of the media,

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all these pipes breaking and all of the
waterways getting damaged

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and we are just not gonna accept 
that risk.

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Because we don´t want it be 25 years,
10 years down the road

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telling our kids: "We used to have moose here",
and "We used to fish",

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"and these are the species 
that we used to catch".

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We don´t want it to become stories
like that.

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We want actually to be going out there
and doing that with them.

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The Unistoten sent a clear message 
to the oil industry

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and to all levels of government:

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No pipelines will go through their terrritory.

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Pipelines are trying to go right through

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where the salmon spawn.
And that´s where we decided

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to put the action camp.

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And last year we put a cabin right 
smack in the way of the pipeline.

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Right now we are standing directly on 
a GPS point

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of the proposed Enbridge Inc.
Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.

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And this is also our place where we´re 
going to be standing off with them.

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The Northern Gateway is one of the many

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pipeline projects that would attempt 
to cut through

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stolen native lands.

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The proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline
has already been approved

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by the canadian government

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and it will bring liquified natural gas
from Summit Lake B.C. to Kitimat

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for export to the pacific coast.

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Pacific Trails Pipeline stays in the way
for Enbridge.

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Their right of way is exactly the same
follows Enbridge wants to go.

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And Enbridge has had huge opposition.

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If Pacific Trails goes in and opens up
a right of way,

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Enbridge can say,

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"Well, our impact on the land,
and the waterways is mitigated,

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because there is already an existing
pipeline in there."

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We are stopping you.

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And one of the things that is really,
really important about this,

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is that we don´t expect you to secede,

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whether your so called B.C. government
occupies our territories,

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is approving you or not.

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We are stopping you.

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In Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territory,

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opposition is growing to the planned 
increase in capacity

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of an existing pipeline owned and
operated by Kinder Morgan.

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Today this pipeline brings over 
300.000 barrels of oil

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from Alberta to Vancouver.

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Kinder Morgan would like to double that.

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This new oil surge would mean more tankers

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navigating in and out of the sensitive ocean

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ecosystems around Vancouver.

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Bumping the odds of oil spills
reminescent of the

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Exxon Valdez in Alaska.

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It could also mean pipeline raptures
through natural environments

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and residential areas.

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Like the 2007 pipeline rapture
in the city of Burnaby.

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It´s sprayed like a gaiser.

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Thick crude oil spurted more than
30 meters into the air

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from the raptured pipeline,

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coating everything it touched.

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So we are just in between the Chevron 
refinery and the storage facility

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that they have on the west side of
Willington Drive.

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As in north Burnaby, just on
the broad end..

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..we are just above the water right now.

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This is, I guess, some of the pipelines that 
run from the rafinery out to the storage area.

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How close to the water are we 
roughly.

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I am guessing about two or three hundred yards.

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In our next report we will look on Vancouvers 
dirty little secret.

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The massive conglomerate of oil infrastructure
facilities in neighbourinig Burnaby.

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Subtitles by Mieroslav