Mychaylo Prystupa Kitimat and Communities Struggle

oil pipeline: Kitimat recreates the dramatic events that garnered public attention last year, culminating on April 12 when the citizens voted no to Enbridge proposal to put the oil pipeline terminus there, according to Vancouver Observer. The play shows the communities struggle through the story of two Portuguese Canadian sisters on opposing sides of the Northern Gateway debate. It a story as familiar to people in the U.S. as in Canada—a large corporation comes to a town where they want to develop or deliver resources and they promise work and money, a boom, if the citizens will let the corporation have its way. We are intensely connected and everybody is facing this or knows about boom and bust towns, said Avila in a Skype interview with the Vancouver Observer. Video by Mychaylo Prystupa Kitimat has all the elements of a great drama, including two sisters on either side of an argument and a town torn between a barrage of lobbying and advertising from a big corporation and a grassroots community response that becomes international. We are all having to think about oil and what systems we are on and how did that come to be and how can we imagine something else…for everybody. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.