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Skeena Watershed

Presentation

Gave presentation

Even though no official meeting allowed giver presentation as had come from Kispiox and wished to drive back after meeting

A Watershed perspective

 

Shannon McPhail executive director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition gave the talk

See their sacred headwaters page for into

See also Sacred headwaters (Klabona) Keepers http://sacredheadwaters.com/home

On the Web --

Council agenda package included One Sky publication comparing Royal Dutch Shell involvement with Klappan  to their disastrous involvement in Nigeria – the 20 page PDF document available on WWW (and since in color better than in Council package)

One Sky: Nigeria of the North? PDF 668K

There is even a video on YouTube  here

 

From Their Slide show

While not against development per se – group questioned the benefit to ‘locals’

Take the ‘produced waters’ that will be pumped out – Reinjected(?) Perhaps not – as legislation not yet enacted – and may be ‘grandfathered’

 

 

 

Thousands of wells/ pumps needed

So that will have an extensive footprint on the land

 

 

 

Regulator is funded by industry – so ‘public interest’ may well be lost

See the Web links above for more detail

Created by LG on28/3/2008

Last updated on Friday, March 28, 2008