A foreign LNG company built dozens of dams across northern British Columbia to serve its fracking operations -- and it didn’t ask permission from anyone before doing it.

Some of these illegal dams are five storeys high. A subsidiary of Petronas LNG built at least 16 of these dams to trap the millions of litres of water it will need to frack for natural gas. There may be as many as 200 unauthorized dams built by other fossil fuel corporations in the region.

Fracking involves injecting a toxic mix of chemicals, fresh water and gas into solid rock to release natural gas. It has led to earthquakes throughout the province just so corporations can ship it in liquefied form to Asia and other markets.

In short, this is a terrible idea and these illegal dams pose an enormous safety risk to local communities and First Nations.

Tell the BC Government LNG corporations are not above the law. Condemn these illegal dams.

A permit isn’t some hassle getting in between a fossil fuel corporation and its profits: it’s the law. And with the upswing in fracking-caused earthquakes, an unregulated, unauthorized dam on the doorstep of a fractured gas operation is a disaster waiting to happen. But apparently LNG and other carbon-spewing industries think they are above the law.

They are not above the law. This is nothing short of a water grab by fossil fuel companies who feel entitled to our most precious resource and aren’t worried about putting communities and First Nations territory under extreme risk to get it.

We’ve been taking on Big Carbon across Canada for years. Tens of thousands of SumOfUs members have committed to doing whatever it takes to stop Kinder Morgan, another fossil fuel corporation that thinks the rule of law doesn’t apply to it. We’ll stop that pipeline, and we will stop these illegal, reckless and dangerous LNG dams too.

Join our call to the BC Government: Stop these dangerous, unauthorized LNG dams.

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