Oil Free Coast. Tankers & Pipelines: Preserving and Protecting our Coast

You’re invited to a panel discussion about tankers and pipelines and how we can preserve and protect our beautiful coast.

This will be a unique opportunity to talk with First Nations and environmental groups about what oil tankers on our coast will mean to us all.  There will be ten environmental groups with information tables as well as the panel, so people will have an opportunity to look at information from many sources. 

We hope people will come, learn, talk and discuss this important issue. 

It’s a free event and everyone is welcome.

Speakers:

- Art Sterritt, Executive Director, Coastal First Nations

- Rex Weyler, Tanker Free BC, Author, Co-founder of Greenpeace

- Nathan Cullen: former NDP Environment & Natural Resources Critic, Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP, NDP Leadership Candidate

Moderator:

Leslie Kemp, Coordinator Sustainable Communities Program, Langara College

Music:

Ta’Kaiya Blaney, Tla’Amin Environmental Singer Songwriter

Program:

1 pm     Doors Open: Information tables (environmental groups), Tea/coffee/juice

1:30      Performance by Ta’Kaiya Blaney, Tla’Amin

2-4       Panel discussion:

First Nations Blessing, Audrey Fisher, Squamish Elder

Presentations by Art Sterritt, Nathan Cullen and Rex Weyler

Questions and discussion with audience (3-4)

4-5       Information tables (environmental groups), refreshments, informal discussion

Sponsors:

Coastal First Nations

Nathan Cullen, Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP, NDP Leadership Candidate

Information:      oilfreecoast@smartt.com 

Free childcare, refreshments, wheelchair accessible, ASL Sign Language Interpreters