{"id":13208,"date":"2017-01-05T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13208"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:52:09","slug":"camosun-college-student-society-signs-off-against-pipeline-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/01\/05\/camosun-college-student-society-signs-off-against-pipeline-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College Student Society signs off against pipeline expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

American energy company Kinder Morgan is planning a large expansion of its Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) has signed off against it in a letter to the federal government.<\/p>\n

CCSS external executive Rachael Grant says she is disappointed by the federal government’s decision to approve the pipeline expansion and was hoping that the Trudeau government would be committed to clean energy sources.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society external executive Rachael Grant (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe pipeline is an incredibly disappointing decision,\u201d says Grant. \u201cMostly because it goes against what was promised to the citizens of Canada. It is of great detriment to the people of BC and negatively impacts everyone. Using cleaner sources of energy was a commitment made by our federal government, and a new pipeline project is not in the best interest of future generations. This is certainly not a decision that was made with future generations in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter to the government was drafted by a coalition of student groups from across BC. It has been signed by 14 student societies, representing 220,000 post-secondary students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs student unions we represent the future workers and future citizens of the province, who have a strong interest in seeing both a world that is healthy and continues to provide for us as well as a British Columbia that is clean and a place that we want to continue living in,\u201d says Kwantlen Student Association president Alex McGowan. \u201cKinder Morgan\u2019s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion seriously jeopardizes a vision that we have for a prosperous and healthy British Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGowan feels that Trudeau\u2019s federal government isn\u2019t honouring its promises for national energy policies made during the election campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is disappointing that Justin Trudeau definitely got elected with the support of young people and, yes, he is clearly ignoring the interest of young people in making this decision,\u201d says McGowan. \u201cBritish Columbia as a province is often ignored, and here in particular the federal government is showing that they are willing to ignore British Columbia\u2019s wishes in approving this pipeline, since an overwhelming majority of British Columbians are opposed to further pipeline expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American energy company Kinder Morgan is planning a large expansion of its Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) has signed off against it in a letter to the federal government. CCSS external executive Rachael Grant says she is disappointed by the federal government’s decision to approve the pipeline expansion and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}