Along the Spirit Bear coast of British Columbia, near the pipeline port of Kitimat. Photo: NRDC

By now the planned Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico is well known. Receiving less publicity is the Northern Gateway pipeline, planned by Calgary-based Enbridge Inc to transport the bituminous tar sand oil from Bruderheim in Alberta to Kitimat in British Columbia. Apart from the usual environmental concerns of constructing and maintaining large pipelines, the $5.5 billion project is opposed on the grounds of oil tanker spills in the narrow inlet from the port at Kitimat and out to sea between the coastal islands of the Spirit Bear Coast. The temperate rain forest of this coast is the home of the Spirit Bear, which has become the icon for the National Resource Defense Council’s campaign (see the Spirit Bear video). ACTION: Send a message to Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel, urging him to stop this project.