After the Groundswell - Vancouver

Join us for a celebration of Heiltsuk stewardship, community resilience, and surf as we revisit Groundswell and the fight that stopped the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, with updated interviews and a look towards the future of our coast.

In 2012, the risk of a catastrophic oil spill from Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline posed a threat to the Central Coast of BC, and the people and species that have called it home for millenia. When a group of surfers set sail towards a region full of life, beauty, and a rich history and presence of Indigenous stewardship, the team experienced not only waves, but also what might be lost if the pipeline proceeded.

A decade later, we revisit the ultimately-successful campaign by coastal Indigenous communities and their allies against the since-canceled Northern Gateway Pipeline. We do so with a retrospective lens: what lessons have we learned about community mobilization and taking a stand?

Chris Darimont, Science Director and Chair of Raincoast Applied Conservation Decisions Lab

Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i), Haíɫzaqv parent, poet, and land-based educator

Valeria Vergara, Senior Scientist and Director of Raincoast's Cetacean Conservation Research Program

6:30 - doors

Drinks and snacks provided

7:30 - screening begins

Host or Publisher Raincoast Conservation Foundation