–San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping —
Chocolate and crude oil don’t mix, unless of course you bite into one of the delicious brownies for sale at our Safe Shipping booth at the San Juan County Fair, August 13-16. We will be offering 4 different flavors (including Bakken Shale Brownies with Caramel Crude) to raise funds to continue our message of Safe Shipping in the Salish Sea.
Our goal is to raise awareness of the increasing number of proposed terminal projects that will increase vessel traffic and multiply the risk of oil spills in the waterways just outside our front doors — the waters that wash up on our favorite beaches. We are especially concerned about increases in tanker traffic transporting crude oil — crude oil spills are the most damaging and most difficult to cleanup.
The specific target of our action at the County Fair is the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — poised to increase the number of tankers seven-fold per month. We islanders need to talk to Canada and let them know we won’t let that happen without them putting the safest of precautions in place.
Oil Spills Kill
Right now, Canada is not capable of effectively cleaning up an oil spill, and that is just not acceptable to us — especially when we stand to lose nearly 80% of our county’s economy should such a disaster happen. And for what? 50 permanent jobs for Canadians and hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to Kinder Morgan.
Please stop by the booth to say “Hi” (we’re neighbors to the T-shirt vendors), learn more, and sign the petition that will be attached to our comment letter to Canada’s National Energy Board regarding the Kinder Morgan project. And besides, how could you resist a chocolate brownie?
Thank you.
See you at the Fair!
San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping is a member of San Juans Alliance, a consortium of Lopez NO COALition, Orcas NO COALition, San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping & FRIENDS of the San Juans. We are a diverse group of San Juan Islands’ citizens who call these islands home. We are united in our concern about the likely adverse impacts to our economy and our environment from the transport of fossil fuels through the Salish Sea.
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