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stop Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
From left: Jim Firth, Dorothy Buckland, Brent O’Malley, Sheree Johnson, Susan Swift, Leah Walker, Janice Martin, David Adams (front) Laura Robertson, photo
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It took less than a week for Bowen Islanders to rally around the remaining vegetables in the field of Primrose Farm and turn it into more than 70 litres of soup for the Bowen Island Food Bank. David Adams says his mother-in-law, Barbara Adams, knew that Clemencia Braraton had vegetables to spare in her garden, and urged him to get to work. “She told me I make great soup,” he said. That was Monday. On Tuesday, David and Barbara went to Primrose Farm and collected leeks, parsley, bay leaves, garlic and “lots” of beets. The next step was to call the Ruddy Potato and ask for donations of some of the missing ingredients. “Next thing I knew we had another 200 lbs in produce,” says
Adams. After a positive response from volunteer chefs willing to help make the soup, Adams asked Alderwood farms for the use of their kitchen, and they responded with an immediate yes. Copper Kettle Sauces offered up any of their on-hand herbs to help with the soup making process. On Sunday, the group delivered the 70 litres of soup to the food bank’s freezer. This all came as a pleasant surprise to Sue Clarke, who oversees the operation of the food bank. “People and organizations have done this kind of thing before, but I had no idea it was in the works,” says Clarke, who adds that food bank usage seems to increase every year. Susan Swift, who helped make the soup, says she hopes that the tradition of making soup for the food bank continues. “Really, though, I don’t think we need to wait until the next holiday season to make this happen again,” she says.
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On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the stamp of approval to Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans-Mountain pipeline project calling it safe, necessary for creating middle-class jobs and ensuring Canada is economically strong enough to transition to a carbon-free economy. “We also know this transition requires investment and that this will not happen overnight to fund this change to a carbon-free world,” he said. “We said that major pipelines could only get built if we had a price on carbon and strong environmental protections in place. We said that Indigenous peoples must be respected and be a part of the process and we said we would only build projects that could be built and run safely.” This decision amounted to the last regulatory hurdle before Kinder Morgan can build the pipeline, which will triple the amount of bitumen destined for the Westridge terminal and increase five-fold the number of Aframax Tankers departing from Burrard Inlet. It just so happened that this announcement was made almost two years to the day following Bowen Islander Alejandro Frid’s arrest while protesting this plan on Burnaby Mountain. “Right from the time of the federal election, it was clear to me that the Liberals were talking out both sides of their mouth,” says Frid. “They had a lot of nice platitudes about climate change but at the same time, Justin Trudeau made it clear that he thought we needed more oil coming out of the ground and pipelines.” Frid says that the one thing he can give the Liberals credit for, are their plans to eliminate coal-fired power plants in Canada. “This is the one thing that is consistent with their statements on climate change,” says Frid, a conservation biologist. “But in building more pipelines, they are committing us to decades of tar sands exploitation. They are not investing in re-training oil and gas workers, they are just not showing leadership on this at all.” Frid says that he is prepared to get arrested to stop this pipeline yet again. continued page 3
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