Today I attended the rally over Climate Change and protection of the Salish Sea. It took place at the Peace Arch that straddles the US Canada border. It was organized by some Tribes on the US side working with some First Nations on the Canadian side, and some environmental groups on both sides.
Joanne Charles a council member of the Semiahmoo Tribe sings a song.
While we were holding our rally a boulder fell from the basalt cliffs along the Columbia River hitting a train's engine puncturing its fuel tank and spilling 2,000 gallons of fuel just a few yards from the river.
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Unist'ot'en Camp is a bunkhouse in northern British Columbia that is being built and occupied directly in the path of the Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline (that Canada's Harper government recently approved).
A banner showing how an oil spill off of Point Roberts would spread through the Salish Sea.
Chief Bill James of the Lummi Nation spoke to the rally.
Chief Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation gave a rousing speech.
His moving words ring true.
Here is what we're fighting to save
The Salish Sea with the San Juan Islands in the distance from Chuckanut Drive at sunset. Beautiful isn't it? Chuckanut Drive happens to be the most direct route from the Canadian border to my island home.
Look more closely and you'll see those are five oil tankers anchored in Samish Bay.
Like this rally Global Warming is international. It respects no borders. That's why its so imperative that the nations of the world will have to act to address it internationally. And we will respond internationally, I am quite certain of that.
The only question that remains is when.
Night falls on the anchored tankers.