A local group determined to stop the Energy East pipeline is hosting a ski/snowshoe/stride event Saturday to demonstrate what it calls "the threat that TransCanada’s proposed diluted bitumen pipeline poses to the waterfront beaches of North Bay."
It is asking others to join the demonstration at Kinsman Beach at 1:30 on Saturday. The group will move south along the shoreline tracing the path that an oil spill into any of the waterways that feed Duchesnay Falls will follow.
Catherine Murton Stoehr is a member of the organizing committee.
“If we have learned anything from recent world events it’s that what seemed unimaginable yesterday can become reality overnight.”
Mike Ivany, one of the originators of the “Ski the Spill” event added, “The North Bay community cannot sit by while corporations and political maneuvers imperil the waters that are so precious to us. We have to tell TransCanada and the Canadian government that we will not let them threaten Lake Nipissing.”
Organizers are asking participants to wear black, carry black balloons, and pull black streamers.
To emphasize their point, Theia GeoAnalytics principle consultant Steve Courtney has posted a video model of the spill path to You Tube.
