Dear Editor:
Your front page article titled “LNG Milestone Passes Haida Gwaii” paints a rosy picture of the event, making it seem like just another normal unfolding of economic progress. There is nothing normal about the shipment of massive amounts of fracked methane from the Douglas Channel out into the global commodity markets via Dixon Entrance. If we survive this and other planet killing projects, they will be remembered as a most shameful part of Canada’s history.
We strongly urge your readers to watch the movie “Yintah: Fighting to Protect their land from the fossil-fuels company” on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkph6XdzYc. Please note that the Land Defenders were found guilty a few months ago in criminal court for attempting to occupy and defend their traditional territory and they are currently awaiting sentencing.
As witnesses to this story as it unfolded, we alerted our own MLA Tamara Davidson on the proposal for a similar LNG project near the mouth of the Nass. It will mean many more LNG tankers plying Dixon Entrance passing Rose Spit. These tankers are floating climate bombs as well as holding the potential to decimate a 50 mile radius in an explosion. Tamara will be the decision maker as Minister of Environment on this Nisga’a Ksi Lisims LNG project and we need to remind her that the sacred waters surrounding Haida Gwaii are much more than transportation corridors for global profiteers.
Josette Wier and David Bowering
Port Clements, BC
