Don’t use my tax dollars for fossil fuels

Dear editor: When I moved to Canada from Texas 10 years ago, I emailed my U.S. family and friends numerous photos of the our stunningly beautiful supernatural B.C.

They received photos of our mountains, wildlife, wildflowers, lakes, forests and streams.

When I travelled elsewhere in the province, they received photos of the ocean and islands.

I was — and am — awed by this country, which values the environment as the gift, tourist attraction, and life-support system that it is.

Now, as a dual citizen, I feel compelled to beg that tax money not be invested in Kinder Morgan, putting the environment at risk from spills and contributing to climate change.

Why risk spoiling our waters and killing marine life, undermining our promises made through the Paris agreement, ignoring provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, baling out a foreign corporation, investing in the Titanic of energy sources when renewable energy investment is the way of the future and the way for a sustainable future?

What kinds of photos do we want our great-great-grandchildren to send their great-great grandchildren?

Let’s say “no” to Kinder Morgan and invest in the best future we can imagine for the asyet-unborn beneficiaries of our choices.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project is too risky for the economy, climate, coast and progress on Indigenous reconciliation. Pamela Kemp, Kelowna