Ep. 003: Movement Against Building More BC Pipelines

EnvironmentMining and oilVancouver and British Columbia
Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Eoin Madden, Wilderness Committee

Eoin Madden of the Wilderness Committee is a passionate climate change campaigner who gave up a career as a solicitor in Ireland to come to Canada to take on the oil industry.

He argues the pipeline isn’t the issue, rather what it’s a part of; carbon. Madden says, “for me, pipelines are an excuse to have a conversation about the biggest challenge facing humanity and that’s climate change.”

Pipelines aren’t the issue, rather what it’s a part of pipelines are an excuse to have a conversation about the biggest challenge facing humanity – and that’s climate change.

 
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