A mysterious new force has joined the campaign against the Gateway project:  the Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels. The 'Dinos' were spotted by Wilderness Committee volunteers at the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge across the Fraser River in BC's lower mainland. The freeway that connects to the bridge goes through the center of an organic farm, and will connect to the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road, a project that would pave over hectares of rapidly diminishing farmland.

Later in the day, the Dinos visited the Wilderness Committee table at the Car Free festival on Commercial Drive in Vancouver and helped hand out campaign literature. Their key message: burning tar sands oil in your cars is cooking the planet, and new freeways are the fast track to extinction due to global warming. 

Said T-Rex, one of the dinosaurs, "Getting hit with an asteroid and going extinct was bad, but for humans to go extinct because of too many freeways would be ridiculous."

 Eric Doherty, Wilderness Committee Campaign Assistant