Christmas will be come and gone by the time I do my next show so MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

For the last two shows, I have been discussing Nathan Cullen's campaign to Take Back Our Coast. He is looking to get 100,000 signatures. You can sign up on the website by the same name and have your name sent to the present government which is trying to push through a pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat and supertankers from Kitimat to China. Raw bitument would be in the pipeline and on the supertankers.

Problem; raw bitumen can't be cleaned up because it sinks. The supertankers are supposed to wend a precise and delicate path between many, many islands on the west coast then up a narrow channel to Kitimat. High winds and big waves are part of this environment. These oiltankers take 3 kilometers to make a turn.

Didn't we just have a Russian oiltanker out of control last week on this same coast. It is a message people. What about the Exxon Valdez. Is that even cleaned up yet? Pay attention.

Doesn't it strike you as rather insane in today's world that people who haven't even visited this area or know anything about it can make such dangerous decisions? It is 2014 not 1984. Let's not let it happen just because the governments thinks bullying is okay. Which brings up the other parts of the Take Back Our Coast campaign. Real and honest consultation with all participants of the region and value-added development rather than always shipping away our raw materials. Why not start creating jobs here in Canada with our natural resources instead of shipping away the jobs and the raw materials? And the ultimate irony?-we import lots of oil for our own use!

Use your name and send in your vote on a petition. You can thru Avaaz, Leadnow and the Dogwood Initiative. You will be glad you did. There are many other kinds of development we as a society can develop. We don't have to endanger our most precious home environment to do it. That is insanity. Let's not let it happen. The time is right, do it now!  Merry Christmas.