rainy days pushing oil

it's raining today,
perfect morning for coffee and books

but all those trees i've ever planted, and any beautiful place i've taken a picture, mountain peak, stream, glacier, forest, tree, pond... is in the rain.
In a year, or two, so many of those places may be healing from the scar of a pipeline, silently sucking bitumen west through unimaginable wilds, maybe places humans haven't really ever been (?) Tankers sliding up channels that have crippled ferries a fraction their size, 225 times a year, and the oil still sits on the beaches of alaska even if we don't really remember when or how that spill happened.

The forests of these wild oceans are the fish. N17 (nitrogen) from the salmon are particular to the universe, and the forest is built from them. We know this, in the most scientific way.
Salmon forests, the ocean and land are dancing like our lungs with this atmosphere. The difficulty of seeing ourselves as part of these systems is the grief or pain of taking life for ourselves. It's ok (necessary!) to be sad when falling a tree, taking a life, an animal, a vegetable, a fruit, for in that grief is the gratitude and joy of being alive. the thanks. humility.

the forests and oceans of north western bc don't need us. We can run a pipe full of bitumen through them  to tankers in tight waters until it all goes wrong, somehow (inevitable?) and that place of wolves and seals, urchins, cedar and salmon may begin to dysfunction and we will suffer as well.
We need the forest (in the largest sense) not the other way around.
All the forest/ocean/life needs is for us to know our place
through humility.

follow this link to youtube to watch in full screen HD or below in the foodgrows mini-screen...

http://friendsofwildsalmon.ca/

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* Note, email the people below AS WELL as filing the online form as per the Government request. This may be a make or break in one's application.

Kenneth MacDonald
VP, Law and Regulatory Affairs
Northern Gateway Pipelines Inc.
30^th Floor, 425 – 1^st Street SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3L8
Fax: 403-718-3525
kenneth.macdonald@enbridge.com

Abby Dorval
Manager, Regulatory Affairs
Northern Gateway Pipelines Inc.
30^th Floor, 425 – 1^st Street SW
Calgary, Alberta,  T2P 3L8
Fax: 403-231-7380
abby.dorval@enbridge.com

Richard Neufeld, Q.C.
Barrister & Solicitor
Fraser Milner Casgrain
15^th Floor, 850 – 2^nd Street SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 0R8
Fax: 403-268-3100
richard.neufeld@fmc-law.com