Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
spans about 1,500light years and lies about 3.5 million light years away toward the constellation of Sagittarius.
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team
(AURA / STScI), Y. Momany (U. Padua) et al., ESA, NASA
via NASA’s excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day site
Gorgeous Anniversary Bouquet!
Happy 25th Anniversary to us!
Within weeks Justin Trudeau will be making a decision on whether Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion will be approved or not. What is this pipeline?
Upon completion, the Trans Mountain pipeline system would transport more than 890,000 barrels a day of primarily diluted bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to B.C.’s west coast. Most of this heavy oil is destined for Westridge dock in Burnaby, where it would be loaded onto oil tankers that would navigate past Vancouver, the Gulf Islands and Victoria before reaching open ocean.
The expansion would increase oil tanker traffic from around 60 per year to more than 400 per year.
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In a few weeks, Prime Minister Trudeau will make a choice; deny climate change or act on it. His choice comes in the form of an 890,000 barrel per day pipeline called Kinder Morgan. Larger than the Keystone XL pipeline, it will have the same climate impact as adding over 30 million new cars to Canada’s roads. Approving this pipeline would be an act of climate denial.
Events (all on November 21st, 2016)
Alberta:
British Columbia:
Vancouver (Crab Park)
Manitoba:
New Brunswick:
Nova Scotia:
Ontario:
Guelph (University of Guelph, UC)
Prince Edward Island:
Quebec:
Saskatchewan:
Please share this post and the individual events widely. If I’ve missed any events, let me know!
Update: Added a bunch of new events.
Over 1000 people in Toronto, Canada braved the rain to protest Donald Trump. November 19th, 2016.
Photoset #1.
Thousands of protestors in Vancouver came out today against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. November 19th, 2016.
If the Canadian Government approves this pipeline its going to get really ugly.
Go Canada!
Canadians care. I certainly hope our governments take a lesson from what’s just happened below the 49th. Listen to the citizens.
Literary
France, probably Paris or possibly the Loire region, ca. 1460
MS M.381 fol. 33vMorgan Library
medieval artist
separate!
Sorting Station
