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Vancouver Pipedreams Project kayakers sound alarm about Enbridge oil pipeline
Aug 28, 2010, Georgia Straight (Read article on originating site site)
By Stephen Thomson, August 26, 2010
From left, the Pipedreams Project members are Ryan Vandecasteyen, Faroe Des Roches and Curtis White.
Three Vancouver kayakers who are troubled by a proposed Enbridge oil pipeline are set to embark on a roughly 900-kilometre paddling voyage along the B.C. coast.
The Pipedreams Project trip kicks off September 1 and is expected to last until sometime in October.
Ryan Vandecasteyen, one of the paddlers, expressed alarm about the planned oil pipeline link between northern Alberta and Kitimat, B.C.
Vandecasteyen claimed tanker traffic drawn to B.C. waters by Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project would heighten the risk of a spill.
Vandecasteyen will be joined on the journey by fellow avid kayakers Faroe Des Roches and Curtis White. The group also plans to create a film.
“We’re doing it to raise awareness about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, to try and just create a venue for people to create discussion around the risks that are being posed by this proposed pipeline,” he told the Straight by phone.
Enbridge has maintained the pipeline project is subject to public scrutiny and will meet tough standards for environmental safety.