No Line 9 Rally on Wednesday, Monthly Meeting on Thursday
Transition KW
Greetings Transitioners,
In addition to our own events, like the monthly meeting this Thursday night, we want to let all Transitioners know that we will be supporting the No Line 9 folks on Wednesday night as they rally at Regional Council. The No Line 9 folks will presenting our declaration and petition to the council and pushing for a resolution from the region to oppose line 9. Come out and show your opposition to the Line 9 pipeline reversal and help push council to come out against the project. Wednesday, September 18, 6-8pm, 150 Frederick Street (Regional Admin building). For more information on the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline reversal plan, check out noline9wr.ca, noline9.ca, and Enbridge.
Monthly Meeting - THIS Thursday, September 19, 7pm. LSPIRG Office, located on the 3rd floor of a house at 165 Albert, Waterloo. Not an accessible space, unfortunately.
Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-Up - September 21, 12 noon. Waterloo Park. The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a national program, providing all Canadians with the opportunity to make a difference in their local communities.The clean-up of the area around Silver Lake at Waterloo Park is hosted by the Laurier Naturalists. Transition Families will meet to play at the park afterwards. For information and to register, see: http://www.shorelinecleanup.ca/en/cleanup/event/fall2013/silver-lake-waterloo-park
Tools for Change Movie Night - September 25, 7pm. REEP House for Sustainable Living, 20 Mill Street, Kitchener. Cost is free, but please register in advance, as space is limited: http://tfcmovienight.eventbrite.ca/. We’ll be watching Gasland - “Gasland is an urgent, cautionary and sometimes darkly comic look at the largest domestic natural gas drilling campaign in history, which is currently sweeping the U.S. and promising landowners a quick payoff. Part verité road trip, part exposé, part mystery and part showdown, Gasland follows director Fox on a 24-state investigation of the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing. What he uncovers is mind-boggling.....”
Tree Planting with the City of Waterloo - October 5, 10.30 am. This event is full - thanks everyone for your interest!
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Sylvie Spraakman
Facilitator, TransitionKW
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Community Notes
1. Summer in the Garden Workshop Series: Seed Saving Workshop: Bob Wildfong of Seeds of Diversity Canada, will facilitate this seed saving workshop; he will discuss the importance of seed saving and teach people traditional methods of seed saving. There will also be a portion of workshop that is hands on and held in the Salvation Army Garden.
When: September 18, 7-9pm
Where: Salvation Army Community Church, 75 Tillsley Drive, Kitchener
Please RSVP to meg...@theworkingcentre.org
Cost: $5 per person
2. Waterloo Region Line 9 Proposal: Line 9 is a 38-year-old pipeline that has been transporting light crude oil between Montreal, Quebec, and Sarnia, Ontario. The pipeline runs through hundreds of communities, the territories of many Indigenous nations, and dozens of watersheds, including the Grand River. Enbridge Inc. has applied to reverse the flow of the pipeline and send diluted bitumen (dilbit), a form of heavy crude from the tar sands, through Line 9. This will threaten life around and downstream from the pipeline.
Line 9 was not built to withstand the transport of diluted bitumen, a toxic compound that poses a particularly dire threat to communities and ecosystems. In 2010, a break in the nearly identical Enbridge pipeline in Kalamazoo, MI, caused the largest inland oil spill in American history, which the company is still struggling to clean up three years later. When Enbridge proposed essentially the same project as the Line 9 reversal in 2008, under the name Trailbreaker, it was successfully opposed based on safety concerns. Just because Enbridge is currently seeking approval for the project piece by piece—the reversal of the first half last year, and the second half plus the transport of bitumen this year—there is no reason for us to accept it now. The threats remain just as serious.
To get involved with this issue: Contact waterlooregio...@gmail.com
Website and petition: http://noline9wr.ca/
Rally against Line 9 at Regional Council Meeting: Wednesday September 18, 6pm, 150 Frederick Street. https://www.facebook.com/events/299911386814056/
3. Doors Open Waterloo Region - Doors Open Waterloo Region, Saturday, September 21, most sites open 10-5. FREE heritage and architecture tour. Discover the secret places of Waterloo Region! Free admission, children's activities, music, drama presentations, walking tours and other special events (check our website). Pick up our 2013 map & guide at libraries, museums and tourism offices across Waterloo Region from July to September, or in The Waterloo Region Record on Saturday, September 14.
www.regionofwaterloo.ca/doorsopen 519-747-5139, door...@regionofwaterloo.ca Twitter: @DoorsOpenWR; Find us on Facebook!
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Volunteer Corner
Repair Cafe: We have the opportunity to host a repair cafe at the KWArtzLab space in Kitchener. Anyone can bring in something broken from their home and have it looked at by some pro “fixers”. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in coordinating logistics and advertising for this event. Contact us :resilientc...@transitionkw.ca!
Casual: Right now we are looking for very low commitment volunteers who can be our “ambassadors”. These volunteers would help us connect with organizations that we don’t know yet (in the social justice, community or environmental fields), or would help us learn about events throughout the community and contribute to our community calendar. If you could contribute a few hours per year (that’s right - nothing more than making a few phone calls or sending out a few emails every year), and are connected with other organizations that can make us better, then please contact us a resilientc...@transitionkw.ca.