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This week (November 30th, 2017), there is protest in Vancouver against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project.
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This rally takes place on ancestral & unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territories.
Ian Anderson, President of Kinder Morgan Canada, will be in town doing press & propaganda with Rachel Notley. We're gathering to show Ian that Trans Mountain will never be built!
Kinder Morgan does not have consent from the majority of the nations whose territories the pipeline aims to cross. KM has already violated its environmental conditions by polluting rivers with plastic and interfering with salmon. We need to show up loud and clear to tell Anderson to pack up and go home.
Another protest against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project is happening next week in Vancouver.
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It’s time to take a stand. Kinder Morgan has started construction to expand their tar sands tanker terminal. If they complete it, it could put the entire Salish Sea at risk, sending hundreds of tankers loaded with dangerous tar sands oil through the Burrard Inlet endangering the water, salmon, people and the climate, all without the consent of Indigenous peoples.
That’s why on October 28th, we’re organizing a flotilla on Burrard Inlet to disrupt Kinder Morgan’s construction plans. And we need your help, on the land and sea. That morning, dozens of kayaks and canoes will create a wall of resistance at Kinder Morgan’s export terminal. Will you join us?
None of these pipelines have the consent of all the Indigenous nations whose lands and territories they would cross.
I'm standing on Secwepemc Nation territory. For the next three days I will join with Secwepemc members to build the first of 10 tiny homes that they will put on their traditional territory directly in the path of the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.
In June, members of the Secwepemc nation hosted the Secwepemcul'ecw Assembly to reaffirm their rights and decision-making authority over Secwepemcul'ecw lands and waters and to issue the Secwepemc People's Declaration on Protecting Our Water and Land against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline.
The declaration states in no uncertain terms that the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline expansion does not have Secwepemc consent:
"We the Secwepemc have never provided and will never provide our collective free, prior and informed consent — the minimal international standard — to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project. We explicitly and irrevocably refuse its passage through our territory."
Secwepemc Nation ups fight against Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline
Water is Life. This simple and indisputable refrain echoed by Water Protectors at Standing Rock helped transform a local Indigenous resistance movement into a global flashpoint for Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
Now, the spirit of Standing Rock is moving northward.
This week, members of our Secwepemc Nation (called Shuswap in English) are building a symbol of our resistance to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline.
This destructive pipeline aims to cross 518 kilometres of unceded Secwepemc territory, a territory that stretches from the Columbia River valley along the Rocky Mountains and Jasper National Park, west to the Fraser River, on its route from the Alberta tarsands to the Salish Sea. But we will not let that happen.
We the Secwepemc, as the sovereign decision-makers of our territory, vow to stand against this pipeline because we know the dangers it brings. So this week we will place the first of a series of hand-built tiny house directly in the pipeline’s path.
The house may be tiny, but it has a giant meaning.
It symbolizes the home that this land is to our Secwepemc families — what we are fighting to protect and what Kinder Morgan, enabled by the Trudeau government, would destroy with the Trans Mountain Expansion.
Justin Trudeau Saturday reiterated his commitment to making sure Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline actually gets built, despite the election of an NDP-Green government in British Columbia opposed to its construction.
“When asked how far he would be willing to go in the face of potential opposition from B.C., Trudeau said he continues to think getting the pipeline expansion project, also known as TMX, built is in the best interests of all Canadians.“
Remember that 15,000 jobs figure that Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley have been promoting if Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline is built? Its fiction; based entirely on data manipulation.
Robyn Allan: The search for Trans Mountain’s mythical 15,000 construction jobs
Senior executives at the lender told aboriginal leaders it is considering backing out of its $145-million commitment to the project
Desjardins Group is considering backing out of its $145-million commitment to Kinder Morgan Inc.'s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, two people present at a meeting with the financial institution told Reuters.
At the meeting last Thursday, Desjardins senior executives told aboriginal leaders the lender will consider their request to pull its financing for the $7.4-billion project, said Eugene Kung, a lawyer for the west coast Tsleil-Waututh Nation, who was at the event.
Desjardins is a minor lender for the project, but a potential pull back would go beyond an announcement in July when it temporarily suspended lending for future oil pipelines. Desjardins, the largest association of credit unions in North America, said it may make the decision permanent this month, citing concerns about the impact pipelines may have on the environment.