The Enpipe Line:
70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal

The launch:
The Enpipe Line launched outside Enbridge's Burrard Street tar sands pipeline office in Vancouver, B.C. March 23, 2012. Protest poems performed by Poet Laureate Fred Wah and poets Elaine Woo, Stephen Collis, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Reg Johanson, Marilyn Belak and Mercedes Eng. Speech from Jessie Schwarz. MC-ed by Ray Hsu. This is the sound of our resistance.

About the book: 
The Enpipe Line goes dream vs. dream with Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines. If built, these 1,170 kilometre pipelines will carry tars sands oil and its poisonous by-products across more than 700 streams and rivers between Alberta and the BC port of Kitimat. In Kitimat, crude oil would be pumped into supertankers for export, threatening the fragile coastal ecosystem with a major spill. Originally conceived as a 1,170 kilometre-long collaborative line of poetry to match the length of the proposed pipelines, The Enpipe Line has grown to over 70,000 kilometres. Its community of poets comes from all ages and walks of life: woodworkers, painters, environmental campaigners, single parents, professors, children. This book, like the pipeline it opposes, outlines a dream. But, unlike Enbridge’s proposal, The Enpipe Line represents the shared desire of living community: that the Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal never see the light of day. 
http://creekstonepress.com/index.php/publications/article/the_enpipe_line/

Proceeds from the sale of the book go into a pipeline resistance legal defence fund.

The Enpipe Line is available at: 
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Enpipe-Line-Kilometers-Poetry-Written-Jen-Currin/9780978319564-item.html

Many thanks to Susan Steudel for the recording.

The Enpipe Line launch YVR 03-23-2012

Scan

An audio tour of Burrard Inlet used in creative workshops that informed the Oilywood project.

Christine Leclerc