Fwd: [StopThePave] Actions this Saturday and March 30

[Eric Doherty]

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Subject:	[StopThePave] Actions this Saturday and March 30
Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:59:41 -0700
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Greetings from your friends at Stop the Pave!

With everything from port expansion to coal exports to jet fuel pipelines stirring controversy in the region these days, we'd like to alert you to a couple of upcoming action opportunities:

1. Saturday March 16: Action for Better Transit Not Freeway Expansion

Join the Council of Canadians Delta/Richmond Chapter in calling for improved transit instead of building a multi-billion dollar replacement for the Massey Tunnel and expanding freeways. We will picket and leaflet the Ministry of Highways’ Delta open house on Saturday March 16 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn 1665 56th Street, Delta, B.C. (Access via 601 bus from Bridgeport Station on the Canada Line) http://tinyurl.com/cqsz35b

"We need to make transit an accessible and convenient mode of commuting instead of spending our public money replacing the tunnel." said Cathy Wilander spokesperson for the Delta/Richmond chapter of the Council of Canadians. "We have to get people out of their cars. This is particularly relevant to our community as global warming from carbon emissions is here and our community, a flood plain, is particularity vulnerable to rising sea levels.”

Improving transit is one of the most important ways to reduce emissions, and to give commuters a way to avoid congestion. Numerous studies and long experience shows that highway expansion just creates new bottle necks, wider traffic jams, and increased carbon emissions.

A new tunnel or bridge would allow Port Metro Vancouver to move much larger ships, including oil tankers and coal ships to expanded facilities, up the Fraser River. Oil spills and coal dust pollution are a serious threat to the ecological health of the River and the salmon that depend on it.

Media release: http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/16739
Invite your friends on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/434254403322845/

2. Saturday March 30: Global Day of Action against Chevron and the Pacific Trail Pipeline

American oil giant Chevron wants to build a destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate catastrophe cliff edge.

Read the call out from Rising Tide Vancouver Coast Salish Territories http://risingtide.resist.ca/?p=347
Find out about a local action in Vancouver on March 30 https://www.facebook.com/events/550192548348590/

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