{"id":15633,"date":"2018-03-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15633"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:38:58","slug":"kinder-morgan-pipeline-inspires-student-to-fight-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/03\/21\/kinder-morgan-pipeline-inspires-student-to-fight-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinder Morgan pipeline inspires student to fight for change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controversy surrounding the Kinder Morgan pipeline has inspired a Camosun student to put together a campaign to educate people on the impacts of the project. The Stop Kinder Morgan Teach In, co-organized by first-year University Transfer student Andrew Swain, will be held in the Library Learning Commons multi-purpose room, on the Lansdowne campus, on Thursday, March 22 from 1:30 pm until 3:30 pm.<\/p>\n

Swain says the campaign to stop the pipeline is in full swing and he was ready to do something around the college to voice his thoughts on the matter, but he couldn\u2019t quite figure out what\u2014until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s following the old-fashioned way of trying to bring [together] community activists and members of the faculty that have something to contribute,\u201d says Swain.<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Andrew Swain has concerns about pipelines (photo by Adam Marsh\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Swain says that there are two main focus points around the pipeline issue. One is concern around spillage of bitumen, a heavy petroleum product with a high sulphur content; the other is reconciliation. Swain says indigenous reconciliation \u201cmust occur for the pipeline to be accepted\u201d and that bitumen is \u201cnot regular oil in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t flow normally,\u201d he says. \u201cIt has to be diluted with a very volatile chemical… This chemical evaporates in the air, leaving the bitumen to sink to the bottom of the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if the oil doesn\u2019t spill, the chemicals will still seep into the atmosphere, says Swain, making reference to the Kalamazoo River oil spill that occurred in July 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s turned out to be very challenging and expensive to fix just a river,\u201d he says. \u201cHow hard would it be to try and clean up the Salish Sea?\u201d<\/p>\n

Swain says the number of tankers\u2014five or six a day\u2014transporting oil is a huge issue as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pipeline\u2019s going to be pumping 24\/7, 365 days a year,\u201d he says, adding that there is nowhere for the tankers to go except through terrain like Galiano Island, which has almost shut down Vancouver Harbour in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this massive increase in bitumen, we need to stop this,\u201d says Swain. He says that the amount of energy it takes to refine bitumen is also important to note. What scares Swain the most, he says, is a tanker sinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the more systemic issue is the climate change. A lot of people want to say that\u2019s a separate topic,\u201d says Swain, \u201cbut this is it. 100 percent of this bitumen will be spilled into the air\u2026 Our real point here is that this is absolutely atrocious for the atmosphere and for any attempt at reducing our greenhouse emissions globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The controversy surrounding the Kinder Morgan pipeline has inspired a Camosun student to put together a campaign to educate people on the impacts of the project. The Stop Kinder Morgan Teach In, co-organized by first-year University Transfer student Andrew Swain, will be held in the Library Learning Commons multi-purpose room, on the Lansdowne campus, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15634,"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":[15,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-march-21-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633","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=15633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}