Im swelling

Im swelling, in my heart and in my loins.
Moontime has come and danced itself upon me in little spots.
My sister made me scrambeled eggs this morning and brought it to me in bed, just before I had written her off as just another self asorbed 19-year-old.We had a fight last night because I asked her to replace the gluten free bread and organic eggs I keep buying and she keeps eating. I really dont mind but its a lesson in integrity I feel I must impart as the wider older sister. Haha, I didnt say wiser, I said wider.

I went to an event last night at the Rio Theater at Commercial and Broadway.
Something historic has been taking place in BC that I wasnt aware of.

When you drive over the Second Narrows or the Lions Gate bridge, have you noticed the large oil tankers coming and going through the Burrard inlet? 

A large company called Kinder Morgan is planning on turning Burrard inlet into the tar sands shipping port. Kinder Morgan, owned by Richard Kinder and Bill Morgan - ex-Enron billionaires who swindled $11 billion dollars from their shareholders and never faced jail time. Kinder-Morgan purchased BC s Terasen Pipelines which is  now Kinder-Morgan Canada, has plans to turn Vancouver into their shipping port  to supply China & the Pacific region with BC tar sands crude oil. The expansion of the tar sands is a massive threat to the global climate, Canadian coastal water and the indegenious people living around these toxic extraction sites. The people of BC have NOT been consulted about Kinder Morgans plans for our inlet. Under Canadian and international laws, First Nations  have the right to free, prior and informed consent  in regards to projects proposed in their traditional territories. Already 61 First Nations chiefs have signed a declaration based in tradtional laws opposing any oil sands  infrastructure that threatens the Fraser River or coastal waters.

In October 2011, the Txleil-Waututh Nation (Burrard Band) clearly stated their opposition to increased tanker traffic, saying it was a risk too great to accept. The event last night which gathered people from all walks of life included First Nations chiefs, BC residents, Greenpeace, Wilderness Committee, celebrities, children, David Suzuki and many occupy participants. This diverse group was all held together by one common thread, water. If our water is poisioned, then what?

You can help. As a resident of BC and Canada, say NO, the tar sands stop here!
Please check out the Wildrenes Committee website WildernessCommitee.org/tankers and watch the Live video stream from last night events or Twitter.com/BurrardInletOil

The Atahabasca Oil Sands in Alberta - a large leak in a pipe caused oil to seep out over the land for for an entire day before technicians turned the pressure off. The surrounding area suffered greatly and thousands of local animals died in the spill, locals suffered sickness from the fumes and the damage it caused the surounding areas and water is irreparable. Locals, who once used the water for drinking and surrounding plants for medicine have reported the water as contaminated, the plants have become rare and the cariboo has been reported to be carrying dangerous tumors. The government denied this spill ever happened. They want to build a pipeline just like this one, in BC next.

The future of our children are bound up in common struggle.- Naomi Klein

Thousands of acres of land once populated by dense forest and wildlife is left barren at a tar sands mine.

Oil sands

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    

Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. The sands contain naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, water, and a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen (or colloquially "tar" due to its similar appearance, odour, and colour). Oil sands are found in large amounts in many countries throughout the world, but are found in extremely large quantities in Canada and Venezuela.
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The crude bitumen contained in the Canadian oil sands is described by Canadian authorities as "petroleum that exists in the semi-solid or solid phase in natural deposits. Bitumen is a thick, sticky form of crude oil, so heavy and viscous (thick) that it will not flow unless heated or diluted with lighter hydrocarbons. At room temperature, it is much like cold molasses".^[2] Venezuelan authorities often refer to similar types of crude oil as extra-heavy oil, because Venezuelan reservoirs are warmer and the oil is somewhat less viscous, allowing it to flow more easily.

Oil sands reserves have only recently been considered to be part of the world's oil reserves, as higher oil prices and new technology enable them to be profitably extracted and upgraded to usable products. They are often referred to as unconventional oil or crude bitumen, in order to distinguish the bitumen extracted from oil sands from the free-flowing hydrocarbon mixtures known as crude oil traditionally produced from oil wells.

Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and refining. This process generates two to four times the amount of greenhouse gases per barrel of final product as the "production" of conventional oil.^[3] If combustion of the final products is included, the so-called "Well to Wheels" approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45% more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.^[4]