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Enbridge and Shell: Flirting with Disaster

During BC oil & gas business conference, ForestEthics runs classified ads in BC papers and hosts an “unwelcome” party
by Karen Tam Wu, Senior Conservation Campaigner
September 23rd, 2011

Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel and Shell Canada President Lorraine Mitchelmore were both in Vancouver today at a business conference to promote the export of oil and gas to Asia Pacific. (The part that they won’t be telling their fellow business peeps is that their respective companies want to export products from high-risk projects in northern British Columbia that local communities have vociferously opposed.) 


We decided to do our own promotions of their destructive projects. ForestEthics placed classified ads in the Personals section of several BC news outlets, including the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, and Victoria Times Colonist with this message:



Also, this morning I met ForestEthics Outreach Coordinator Jolan Bailey and 14 awesome volunteers to host an unwelcome party for these business men and women. Conference delegates were welcomed with a banner stating “No pipeline. No tankers. No Problem”, and flyers with the classified ad. Interestingly enough, as soon as people saw the banner, they knew it was about Enbridge: a sign that the business communities on both sides of the Pacific understand the risky pipeline proposal put forth by Enbridge. A couple of businessmen in suits someone came over and whispered in Jolan’s ear: “I support what you’re doing.”

Check out some fun pics from the event:






Karen Tam Wu
Senior Conservation Campaigner
ForestEthics

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