WEBVTT

00:00:06.502 --> 00:00:12.046
Stop the Flows
Dispatch No.1

00:00:13.633 --> 00:00:19.947
Oil Getaway

00:00:21.615 --> 00:00:24.693
The oil industry is a dirty business.

00:00:29.664 --> 00:00:31.971
The governor of Montana is expected
to detour the damaged

00:00:32.006 --> 00:00:34.105
to areas today of that oil spill.

00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:37.217
One of the great western rivers
now stained in oil.

00:00:37.252 --> 00:00:41.821
A Calhoun county river rushing with a sheen
of oil tonight.

00:00:41.856 --> 00:00:43.933
People still haven´t forgotten the disastrous

00:00:43.968 --> 00:00:49.376
BP oil spill of the gulf coast
of the US in 2010.

00:00:50.363 --> 00:00:54.271
But tanker accidents and pipeline
raptures happen frequently

00:00:54.306 --> 00:00:58.823
and spill thousands of liters of oil
to densely populated areas,

00:00:58.858 --> 00:01:01.045
rivers and natural environments.

00:01:09.501 --> 00:01:11.875
So it´s no wonder why people are
coming together

00:01:11.910 --> 00:01:17.685
to opose megaprojects that will bring oil
and gas infrastructure to their communities.

00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:20.164
Others see a position to these oil
freeways

00:01:20.199 --> 00:01:24.364
as a way to show us solidarity with
communities fighting industrial expansion.

00:01:24.399 --> 00:01:27.176
The main reason we oppose these projects

00:01:27.211 --> 00:01:31.139
is because this is the dirtiest project
on the planet - the tar sands.

00:01:31.174 --> 00:01:33.942
And we are standing in solidarity with people

00:01:33.977 --> 00:01:39.292
affected and impacted currently by
tar sands developments.

00:01:39.327 --> 00:01:42.280
And we understand that the volumes

00:01:42.315 --> 00:01:46.623
proposed to be transported through
our territories either by pipelines

00:01:46.658 --> 00:01:52.896
or also pipelines on rail, that would
facilitate the expansion of the tar sands.

00:01:52.931 --> 00:01:55.058
The building of oil and gas infrastructure

00:01:55.179 --> 00:01:57.184
also has global implications.

00:01:57.219 --> 00:02:01.611
Climate scientists warn of the ecological
catastrophy that planet faces

00:02:01.646 --> 00:02:04.593
if greenhouse gas emisions are not
stopped.

00:02:07.144 --> 00:02:10.487
In the face of overwhelming scientific
evidence, governments

00:02:10.521 --> 00:02:12.720
and corporations continue to fight wars

00:02:12.755 --> 00:02:16.989
and destroy lands, to extract and
burn hydrocarbons.

00:02:17.024 --> 00:02:19.741
All the while big environmental groups
cut deals with industry

00:02:19.776 --> 00:02:22.980
and claim false victories
in the name of the Earth.

00:02:23.703 --> 00:02:26.411
It is increasingly clear that the only
hope for our planet

00:02:26.446 --> 00:02:29.759
is for uncompromising resistance
movements to organize

00:02:29.794 --> 00:02:33.850
outside of mainstream environmentalism
and fight to win.

00:02:35.031 --> 00:02:37.786
In august of 2011 over a thousand people

00:02:37.821 --> 00:02:40.018
including some high profile celebrities

00:02:40.053 --> 00:02:44.179
voluntarily handed themselves over to
the cops in Washington D.C.

00:02:44.214 --> 00:02:48.457
to try to stop the proposed
Keystone XL pipeline.

00:02:48.492 --> 00:02:51.371
Around the same time the US State Departement
issued a statement

00:02:51.406 --> 00:02:55.773
saying, that the proposed project will have
no significant impact

00:02:55.808 --> 00:02:56.912
on the environment.

00:02:56.947 --> 00:03:00.903
Hinting that the US government
is ready to rubber stamp Keystone XL.

00:03:00.938 --> 00:03:03.255
This was a wakeup call for activists.

00:03:03.290 --> 00:03:06.532
That it will take more than
non-violent civil disobedience

00:03:06.567 --> 00:03:08.429
to stop new pipelines.

00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:10.875
If approved, the Keystone XL

00:03:10.910 --> 00:03:13.854
would bring millions of barrels of
tar sands oil from Canada

00:03:13.889 --> 00:03:15.693
through the US.

00:03:16.824 --> 00:03:20.696
And some 840 000 gallons of oil
continues to flow

00:03:20.731 --> 00:03:22.834
down the Kalamazoo River.

00:03:22.869 --> 00:03:27.789
Last year, Enbridge had a spill in the
Kalamazoo and it was a disaster.

00:03:27.824 --> 00:03:30.033
A river that the community had spent

00:03:30.068 --> 00:03:34.828
decades cleaning up and making into a really

00:03:34.863 --> 00:03:37.080
wonderful place for people for fishing

00:03:37.115 --> 00:03:40.209
and for leisure activities,
suddenly became unusable,

00:03:40.244 --> 00:03:43.772
because Enbridge spilled thousands
of liters of diluted bichamen

00:03:43.807 --> 00:03:48.146
into the Kalamazoo River and it´s still
not safe to eat fish from that river.

00:03:49.208 --> 00:03:52.709
Enbridge has proposed a pipeline project
called the Northern Gateway,

00:03:52.744 --> 00:03:55.774
that will begin in Alberta
and traverse through

00:03:55.809 --> 00:03:57.481
central British Columbia,

00:03:57.516 --> 00:03:59.631
bringing unrefined oil from the tar sands

00:03:59.666 --> 00:04:01.910
to the pacific coast of Canada.

00:04:01.945 --> 00:04:06.047
This pipeline is proposed to cross a number
of rivers and streams.

00:04:06.082 --> 00:04:09.543
If there were a spill or a construction
impact on water quality,

00:04:09.578 --> 00:04:12.838
the effects could be felt downstream.

00:04:12.873 --> 00:04:16.625
Especially because of the migration of fish
and wildlife.

00:04:18.293 --> 00:04:22.736
Not only does Northern Gateway
pose a threat to ecospheres in B.C.,

00:04:22.771 --> 00:04:24.664
if would also encroach on the sovereignty

00:04:24.811 --> 00:04:26.616
of indigenous peoples lands.

00:04:26.651 --> 00:04:29.842
Most of the lands the pipeline will cross
in B.C., were never surrendered

00:04:29.877 --> 00:04:31.822
or ceded to governments.

00:04:31.857 --> 00:04:35.417
This includes the lands of the Uni´sto´ten
clan of the Wet'suet'en Nation,

00:04:35.452 --> 00:04:38.372
whose territory includes
parts of the Maurice river.

00:04:38.373 --> 00:04:41.718
We have never ceded or surrendered 
our lands to anybody here.

00:04:41.753 --> 00:04:45.334
There is no treaty, there is no relationship
built with any government

00:04:45.369 --> 00:04:48.680
in the past, none of our people signed
anything to let them make

00:04:48.715 --> 00:04:50.543
decisions on our territory.

00:04:50.578 --> 00:04:51.886
This is Wetsueten land.

00:04:51.921 --> 00:04:53.618
This is not Canada, this is not B.C.

00:04:53.653 --> 00:04:57.359
What we are standing on is Unistoten
territory.

00:04:57.394 --> 00:05:01.139
And this river is probably one of the top
rivers that we can drink

00:05:01.174 --> 00:05:05.157
directly from. It is not a whole lot of these
rivers in the world left.

00:05:05.192 --> 00:05:09.192
Even though they say it´s safe,
we have been hearing all of the media,

00:05:09.227 --> 00:05:12.533
all these pipes breaking and all of the
waterways getting damaged

00:05:12.568 --> 00:05:15.326
and we are just not gonna accept 
that risk.

00:05:15.361 --> 00:05:19.951
Because we don´t want it be 25 years,
10 years down the road

00:05:19.986 --> 00:05:24.181
telling our kids: "We used to have moose here",
and "We used to fish",

00:05:24.216 --> 00:05:26.241
"and these are the species 
that we used to catch".

00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:28.342
We don´t want it to become stories
like that.

00:05:28.377 --> 00:05:32.891
We want actually to be going out there
and doing that with them.

00:05:33.779 --> 00:05:36.821
The Unistoten sent a clear message 
to the oil industry

00:05:36.856 --> 00:05:39.214
and to all levels of government:

00:05:39.249 --> 00:05:42.049
No pipelines will go through their terrritory.

00:05:42.084 --> 00:05:44.978
Pipelines are trying to go right through

00:05:45.013 --> 00:05:48.842
where the salmon spawn.
And that´s where we decided

00:05:48.877 --> 00:05:50.592
to put the action camp.

00:05:50.627 --> 00:05:55.034
And last year we put a cabin right 
smack in the way of the pipeline.

00:05:55.069 --> 00:05:58.687
Right now we are standing directly on 
a GPS point

00:05:58.722 --> 00:06:03.846
of the proposed Enbridge Inc.
Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.

00:06:03.881 --> 00:06:08.506
And this is also our place where we´re 
going to be standing off with them.

00:06:08.541 --> 00:06:10.955
The Northern Gateway is one of the many

00:06:10.990 --> 00:06:12.893
pipeline projects that would attempt 
to cut through

00:06:12.928 --> 00:06:14.821
stolen native lands.

00:06:14.856 --> 00:06:18.111
The proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline
has already been approved

00:06:18.146 --> 00:06:19.955
by the canadian government

00:06:19.990 --> 00:06:23.844
and it will bring liquified natural gas
from Summit Lake B.C. to Kitimat

00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.099
for export to the pacific coast.

00:06:26.134 --> 00:06:29.046
Pacific Trails Pipeline stays in the way
for Enbridge.

00:06:29.081 --> 00:06:33.681
Their right of way is exactly the same
follows Enbridge wants to go.

00:06:33.716 --> 00:06:36.893
And Enbridge has had huge opposition.

00:06:36.928 --> 00:06:40.240
If Pacific Trails goes in and opens up
a right of way,

00:06:40.275 --> 00:06:41.943
Enbridge can say,

00:06:41.978 --> 00:06:45.226
"Well, our impact on the land,
and the waterways is mitigated,

00:06:45.261 --> 00:06:47.756
because there is already an existing
pipeline in there."

00:06:49.669 --> 00:06:51.213
We are stopping you.

00:06:51.248 --> 00:06:53.780
And one of the things that is really,
really important about this,

00:06:53.815 --> 00:06:55.958
is that we don´t expect you to secede,

00:06:55.993 --> 00:07:00.475
whether your so called B.C. government
occupies our territories,

00:07:00.510 --> 00:07:01.961
is approving you or not.

00:07:01.996 --> 00:07:03.802
We are stopping you.

00:07:05.485 --> 00:07:08.318
In Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territory,

00:07:08.353 --> 00:07:11.489
opposition is growing to the planned 
increase in capacity

00:07:11.524 --> 00:07:14.892
of an existing pipeline owned and
operated by Kinder Morgan.

00:07:14.927 --> 00:07:17.970
Today this pipeline brings over 
300.000 barrels of oil

00:07:18.005 --> 00:07:20.304
from Alberta to Vancouver.

00:07:20.339 --> 00:07:22.865
Kinder Morgan would like to double that.

00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:25.090
This new oil surge would mean more tankers

00:07:25.125 --> 00:07:26.933
navigating in and out of the sensitive ocean

00:07:26.968 --> 00:07:29.198
ecosystems around Vancouver.

00:07:29.233 --> 00:07:32.452
Bumping the odds of oil spills
reminescent of the

00:07:32.487 --> 00:07:34.350
Exxon Valdez in Alaska.

00:07:34.385 --> 00:07:37.074
It could also mean pipeline raptures
through natural environments

00:07:37.109 --> 00:07:39.024
and residential areas.

00:07:39.059 --> 00:07:42.568
Like the 2007 pipeline rapture
in the city of Burnaby.

00:07:42.603 --> 00:07:45.655
It´s sprayed like a gaiser.

00:07:45.690 --> 00:07:49.331
Thick crude oil spurted more than
30 meters into the air

00:07:49.366 --> 00:07:50.853
from the raptured pipeline,

00:07:50.888 --> 00:07:52.915
coating everything it touched.

00:08:01.489 --> 00:08:05.518
So we are just in between the Chevron 
refinery and the storage facility

00:08:05.553 --> 00:08:08.704
that they have on the west side of
Willington Drive.

00:08:08.739 --> 00:08:11.362
As in north Burnaby, just on
the broad end..

00:08:11.397 --> 00:08:14.144
..we are just above the water right now.

00:08:14.179 --> 00:08:21.065
This is, I guess, some of the pipelines that 
run from the rafinery out to the storage area.

00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:23.273
How close to the water are we 
roughly.

00:08:24.541 --> 00:08:26.820
I am guessing about two or three hundred yards.

00:08:26.855 --> 00:08:30.555
In our next report we will look on Vancouvers 
dirty little secret.

00:08:30.590 --> 00:08:35.912
The massive conglomerate of oil infrastructure
facilities in neighbourinig Burnaby.

00:08:45.615 --> 00:08:50.743
Subtitles by Mieroslav