Media Advisory - May 20, 2014

Forum brings together frontline community members from Squamish, Hazelton and Fort Nelson

VANCOUVER - From May 21st to 23rd, the BC government and the oil and gas industry will be converging on Vancouver to hold a large LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) summit. As they try to push forward their fracking and LNG pipe dreams on empty promises of jobs and economic prosperity for BC, there is rising concern and opposition from communities across the province as the true impacts and costs of the gas boom come to light. 

On Wednesday, May 21st, the Council of Canadians and the Wilderness Committee will host a night of speakers from the frontlines of community resistance to fracking, pipelines and LNG.  

WHAT: LNG Pipedreams: Fracked Futures and Community Resistance

WHEN: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 
              * For one-on-one interviews with speakers, please arrive by 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Room 1900, Simon Fraser University (SFU) Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver 

SPEAKERS: 

• Liz Logan, Tribal Chief for Treaty 8 Tribal Association (Fort Nelson, Fort St. John) 
• Shannon McPhail, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (Hazelton, BC)  
• Damien Gillis, Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker, Fractured Land
• Joyce Williams, Skwomesh Action 
• Tracey Saxby, My Sea to Sky (Squamish) 
• Susan Spratt, Former Area Director for CAW / Unifor

EVENT SPONSORED BY: The Council of Canadians and the Wilderness Committee

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For more information or to arrange interviews:

Leila Darwish, BC-Yukon Regional Organizer, Council of Canadians
778-679-2907, ldarwish@canadians.org 
Twitter: @CouncilOfCDNs | canadians.org

Eoin Madden, Climate Campaigner, Wilderness Committee
604-353-9603, eoin@wildernesscommittee.org
Twitter: @wildernews | wildernesscommittee.org