Protect my home, the Great Bear Rainforest

My grandmother told me that when my grandfather was still alive, he loved to fish and he loved going out on the boat with his brother. She told me that one time my mother and my grandfather went blueberry picking and came back to Hartley Bay on a log. I’m not even kidding…. a log!
All of them love going salmonberry picking and they won’t be able to do that if we have to move to somewhere else to live.
Suppose an oil tanker went by Hartley Bay and hit land like the “Queen of the North” did? We wouldn’t be able to go out harvesting the food we get now. We wouldn’t even be able to swim in the ocean we love swimming in. When I’m on the ocean, I see the beautiful whales and eagles that live in this area. My brothers George and Terran even taught me how to fish and where to fish.

Every day I cry when I think of oil tankers the size of three football fields going by my home, causing giant waves and possibly killing some of the whales and mother natures’ beautiful work.
It hurts me, it really does hurt me. I hope Enbridge gets the message that we don’t need the Northern Gateway Pipeline…or their money. Because we are making it on our own already.
I would like to end this blog by saying I welcome you all to visit the Great Bear Rainforest.
You can learn more about Hartley Bay and the Great Bear by watching MTV News Impact Presents: Pipeline Wars. Aliya-Jasmine Sovani, MTV News Host & Producer, investigates the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Pipeline Wars airs on MTV on Sunday, Sept 9th, 6pm & 11pm ET.