no pipeline, no tankers, no problem 2

Rotterdam oil spill: Hundreds of birds hit after Dutch leak

The Bow Jubail ruptured its hull, pouring 220 tonnes of oil into the harbour on Saturday and officials immediately tried to contain the spill.

Rescue workers have been overwhelmed by the number of contaminated birds.

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"I haven't yet seen a swan untouched by the oil. It's a real catastrophe," adviser Claude Velter told local TV.

Harbour master René de Vries told Dutch TV he could not remember a spill on such a scale in the past decade. "Rotterdam was a clean harbour until Saturday and we want to keep it that way."

Booms were deployed in an effort to contain the spill, but by Sunday it had spread along two key waterways near Rotterdam, the Nieuwe Maas and Nieuwe Waterweg.

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The Tŝilhqot’in Nation welcomes today’s B.C. Supreme Court decision to grant an interlocutory injunction against an exploration permit issued by British Columbia to Taseko Mines Ltd. (TML) for an extensive drilling program in the Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake) area. TML had planned to start the drilling work as early as next week.

The injunction prohibits TML from carrying out the drilling program until the B.C. Supreme Court has ruled on the Tŝilhqot’in Nation’s legal challenge to the drilling permit issued in July of 2017, based on breaches of the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate the Tŝilhqot’in. That case was argued in B.C. Supreme Court last week, June 25-29.

Taseko’s proposed drilling program is for the stated purpose of supporting construction of the New Prosperity Mine, despite the fact that the Federal Government rejected New Prosperity over four years ago, and the proposed mine cannot be built as matters stand. Two independent federal panels have confirmed the unique and special significance of Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake), Yanah Biny (Little Fish Lake) and Nabas (the surrounding area) to the Tŝilhqot’in people as a valued hunting, trapping and gathering grounds. This area is also significant as a place for ceremony, spiritual practices and community gatherings, as an actively used cultural school, and as “home” to the many Tŝilhqot’in members born and raised there.

The drilling permit in question was approved on the final day of the outgoing Liberal Government. The Tŝilhqot’in Nation calls on the current BC Government to step up and honour its commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by protecting this critical cultural space from further threat in the name of a mining project that has been rejected twice for its unacceptable environmental and cultural impacts.

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Kinder Morgan privately eyes Trans Mountain protesters

On a sunny Friday morning in late May, protesters trickled in one by one to mingle at the Watch House campground, not far from the gates to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, just east of Vancouver. So did two men hired by Kinder Morgan to report back on their activities.

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Forsythe chatted with some of the other people who had shown up that day, and took particular care to identify the group’s leaders, who were wearing high-visibility vests. Throughout the day he took photographs of numerous people on site, which he later annotated.

"I was talking to 2 girls, one was from Toronto & was friend of girl by name of ATASHA (?) She advised she was previously arrested. Both appear to be East Indian decent (sic.)," said one section of the notes taken by Forsythe. "(An organizer) advised we would be getting started soon with the 'training.'"

Forsythe and Shendruk​ are private investigators. The information they collected was used to convince B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck that protesters were “making every effort to calculate and orchestrate” their protest to maximize disruption of Kinder Morgan’s construction activities. Affleck tightened the terms of an earlier injunction, removing a 10-minute grace period between when police would read a warning for those blocking access to disperse and when arrests would be made.

The earlier injunction created a five-metre exclusion zone around Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Mountain tank farm and Westridge Marine Terminal. The injunction can now also be applied to Kinder Morgan operations anywhere in the province.

The two affidavits included Forsythe's 23 pages of notes and Shendruk's five pages about the protesters' operations as well as 30 surreptiously-snapped photographs. They shined some light on the little-understood but growing role of private investigators in Canada’s policing of protest.

“The fascinating thing is that we know very little, certainly in Canada, about the role of private eyes and private investigators and even the security branches of the energy companies in terms of their role in collecting intelligence and surveillance information on protesters,” said Jeffrey Monaghan. He is an associate professor at Carleton University's Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice who co-authored the book Policing Indigenous Movements, published in May.

Monaghan and co-author Andrew Crosby made extensive use of access to information legislation to illustrate how the federal government and its law enforcement and security services have coordinated with resource companies to deal with opposition to Enbridge’s failed Northern Gateway project, the Idle No More movement and two other Indigenous-led protest movements.

“What we do know is that over the past few years the federal government has made a fairly substantive effort to try to integrate these private companies, especially the resource companies and their security wings, into the national security bureaucracy,” he added in a telephone interview.

This includes an RCMP web portal specifically for companies who operate what the government considers critical infrastructure (including pipelines) to upload information about protests as part of a ‘suspicious incidents reporting’ framework.

Stand with Youth: Cancel the Kinder Morgan Buyout

17+ current and former members of the Prime Minister's Youth Council are calling on Justin Trudeau to: Cancel the Kinder Morgan Buyout. 

"We call on you to cancel the buyout of the Trans Mountain pipeline project on the grounds that this project violates Indigenous rights, poses the threat of irreversible damage to British Columbia’s coast and brings the world many steps too close to global climate catastrophe. Climate leaders do not finance or support fossil fuel production, and must instead pave the way to a just transition out of the fossil fuel era."

Send your message now: Cancel the Kinder Morgan Buyout, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!

City of Burnaby issues eviction notice to protesters at Kinder Morgan terminal

The City of Burnaby is evicting protesters from a make-shift camp set up outside one of Kinder Morgan's terminals, citing fire safety and public health concerns.

City manager Lambert Chu says the city is worried about how the footprint of the site, dubbed Camp Cloud, has grown to include a two-level wood structure, additional tents and even shower facilities.

"We've been trying to work with the camp occupants and seek compliance with no success and that's why we had to take the step of issuing the eviction notice," Chu said.

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In videos posted to Facebook, Kwitsel Tatel identifies herself as the camp's court monitor.

She says there are no public safety issues related to the camp, which formed in order to educate the public about water protection.

"We're asking now for clean water to be protected for all living things, for all people for all time," she says in the video.

In March, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that both Camp Cloud and the Watch House could remain in place in response to a court injunction filed by Kinder Morgan.

Tatel says the eviction notice violates both that court order and Indigenous rights on the land.

Pipeline protesters defy eviction order, say they'll meet with officials

Protesters at an anti-pipeline camp in Burnaby, B.C., say they will meet with officials to discuss safety measures, but they will not comply with a city-issued evacuation order.

The City of Burnaby says there are safety concerns surrounding "Camp Cloud," including a two-storey wooden watch house and a fire that protesters describe as sacred and ceremonial.

Protest organizer Kwitsel Tatel says the participants will not leave, nor will they extinguish their fire.

Tatel suggests the structures around the camp’s sacred fire could be modified, if only to refocus the attention away from the physical camp and back to the anti-pipeline protest.

She adds that snuffing out the fire would constitute a breaking of both B.C. Supreme Court and Coast Salish law.

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"The executive assistant to (Burnaby Mayor) Derek Corrigan came many times with orders instead of questions and concerns. I'm respectfully announcing that is not good faith discussion or negotiation," Tatel said Saturday.

She added that they spoke with the City of Burnaby fire department overnight about the sacred fire, and that a load of timber would be dropped off by the department.

Tatel said she will request federal intervention if need be, citing the protesters' charter right to peaceful demonstration.

"I'm asking for (federal Justice Minister) Jody Wilson-Raybould to step up and assist, to pull her goons and her dogs," said Tatel

She and several other camp residents said they saw between 30 and 60 "paramilitary" individuals in and around "Camp Cloud" and the woods around the Kinder Morgan tanker terminal late Friday night, and said additional audio and video surveillance near the entrance to the terminal had recently been installed.

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Today, as Canada takes possession of the controversial and ill-fated Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project, Indigenous leaders renew vows to enact their rights as proper title holders by protecting their territories against this project and its devastating risks and impacts.  

While misleading information about Indigenous support for the pipeline has been widely circulated, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) emphasizes that the standard for Indigenous approval must be our free, prior and informed consent – not merely consultation – as articulated by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Canada has officially endorsed and committed to adopt without qualification. Indigenous Nations will not allow Canada to override Indigenous Title and jurisdiction.   

According to the latest statistics from news outlets, out of 106 Indigenous Nations and groups identified along the pipeline route in BC alone, 64 have not signed agreements and an additional 14 have active court challenges underway. Further, this pipeline and tanker project will affect lands, rights, and resources that should have been historically protected for Indigenous Nations by colonial and Canadian governments but were not. Along the proposed route, there are at least 400 unresolved specific claims – a vast number of historical losses yet to be redressed by the federal government. This does not include specific claims that could arise as a direct result of the pipeline expansion.    

“This ill-conceived and dangerous project, now owned by the Canadian government, will never happen,” stated UBCIC President Grand Chief Stewart Phillip. “Canada is foolishly forfeiting billions of dollars – this is not an infrastructure investment but a massively expensive experiment in trying to re-enact a colonial status quo. Canada can rest assured that the collective response by our Nations will continue to be strong, widespread, and unwavering. We’ve said no from the start. We still say no.”   

“The UBCIC will not falter whatsoever in our efforts to safeguard our lands, coasts, waters, and fisheries, which have sustained our people for centuries,” said UBCIC Vice-President Chief Bob Chamberlin. “We will defend the ecological security of our territories. The fact that Canada failed to secure a purchaser for the pipeline by the proposed deadline demonstrates that this was, is, and will continue to be an irresponsible expenditure of Canadians’ tax dollars.”  

“This pipeline purchase is the Doctrine of Discovery in action,” said UBCIC Secretary-Treasurer Chief Judy Wilson. “It speaks louder than all the rhetoric in the world: Canada thinks that, when it comes down to it, they hold the final say in what happens with our lands. But we are sovereign Nations and we have never ceded, surrendered, or relinquished Title. We hold the sacred responsibility to protect these lands and we will do so.”

In solidarity, Sarah Beuhler and the Coast Protectors team PS If you are in Vancouver this week, join us at the park near Science World for training sessions in civil disobedience: Wednesday and Saturday. 

Coast Protectors is hosted by UBCIC Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs - 312 Main St, Suite 401, Vancouver, BC

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Laurie Embree, the first Protector to risk jail time to stop Kinder Morgan's pipeline and tanker project, was just jailed for seven days for stopping Kinder Morgan Canada's pipeline and tanker project.

Embree addressed the court before sentencing, saying in her statement, “I truly believe that when we have laws that support injustices, it is the duty of all good men and women to stand up and challenge those laws.”

“This law sir, that you have created, and that I, and many others are peacefully challenging, is unjust.” (Read her full statement here)

During the hearing, the Crown accused Protectors of “widespread organized lawlessness” and argued that stronger sentencing is needed for deterrence, up to 14 days in custody.

The courtroom erupted as supporters questioned the BC government's punishment for citizens standing for climate justice and Indigenous rights, while barely punishing Kinder Morgan with a $920 fine for 4 counts of breaching of the Water Sustainability Act last year.

Eight other arrestees appeared today for their first hearing, including Order of Canada recipient Jean Swanson and former President of the BC Teachers Federation Susan Lambert. They also face a maximum of seven days in custody and $5,000 in fines and will be sentenced on August 15 in BC Supreme Court. RSVP to support them in court.

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..posted this piece re: south africa in the autonomy thread and this part applies here. it's worth noting the similarities with the bc extraction/site c struggles.

Working Class Movement Must Be Independent

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7. Mining Industry and Mining-Affected Communities

1. The right of communities to continuous free, prior and informed consent and the right to say no to mining, and any aspects of the development of a mine throughout its life must be respected.
2. Communities must be provided with a variety of development options, unlike the current situation where the government colluding with mine bosses only offers mining as a development option.
3. Mining is destructive of the environment, of self-sustaining small agriculture, of rural communities and is not environmentally, socially or economically sustainable and compromises community and worker health and safety, given that minerals are finite and therefore mining as route for development should always be the last option, and not the first.
4. Communities must have access to all relevant documents of mine developments affecting and impacting on them must be respected. This includes access to Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Management Plans, Social and Labour Plans, Disaster Management Plans, Annual Reports, Tax Documents, Revenue Flow Accounts, Export Figures, diagrams and maps of underground tunnels etc.
5. Communities that have to make way for mining need to be compensated in terms of harvests lost not only for one season’s crops, but for harvests forfeited across the life of mine.
6. Mine affected and impacted communities demand that minerals be processed and turned into manufactured goods locally rather than minerals being exported in raw form.
7. Women mineworkers want the workplace, mine safety gear and clothing as well as technology to be reengineered to make mining safe for women workers. Women workers also want their deployment to be properly thought through with their safety from predatory male behaviour to be guaranteed. Women in the mining workspace should not be particularized. It was further demanded that women should have equal rights to mining jobs rather than there being a minimum quota for women workers as per the current mining charter.

The community struggle against capitalist mining is a class struggle. The government and mine bosses use tribalism and patriarchy to divide and control workers and communities the commission calls for the diminution of the role of chiefs in community consultations and negotiations around mining. A revolutionary society is one of equals without elites, bosses, chiefs or patriarchs.

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So, to stimulate discussion about where we are heading with the west-to-east energy trade that is actually happening (as opposed to the dramatically expanded east-to-west trade that might one day happen), consider the following.

Alberta’s oilsands industry is the top consumer of natural gas in Canada, accounting for one-quarter of the natural gas used. Much of that gas is burned to generate steam that is pumped below ground to “liberate” the thick oil. As oilsands operations expand, more natural gas must be consumed. It is to the industry’s benefit to see lots and lots of natural gas produced from whatever quarter, and of even greater benefit if increased gas production results in a glut of marketable gas, which keeps prices low.

In the 10 years ending in 2017, Alberta-bound shipments of natural gas from northeast B.C. increased by more than 230 per cent. In fact, virtually all the sizeable increase in B.C.’s overall gas production went to its neighbour to the east. Some of that gas was used in Alberta; the majority then moved farther east to markets in central Canada and the United States.

Contrary to B.C. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall’s embarrassing assertions that continued natural gas drilling and fracking is necessary so that British Columbians can bask in the warmth of their gas fireplaces, and those lucky enough to afford it can cook salmon on their gas barbecues, the overwhelming amount of natural gas drilled and fracked from the ground in northeast B.C. goes to others. It is not used in this province.

If the pilot lights ever wink out in the fireplaces in British Columbians’ homes, it won’t be because of B.C.’s own natural gas consumption, but rather the province’s subsidies to encourage gas production. (The biggest subsidy is the extremely generous breaks on gas royalty payments that the B.C. government grants natural gas producers.)

Those subsidies are a powerful inducement to the industry, particularly in the Montney Basin, the southernmost of the two big natural plays in the province, where there’s plenty of natural gas. But there is also plenty of something else, which is the only thing that is really driving industry profits these days.

Gas liquids: The big cash prize

Within the Montney Basin, which includes areas near Fort St. John, Dawson Creek and Chetwynd, the favoured drilling sites are those containing large amounts of naturally occurring “wet” gas liquids, as opposed to “dry” conventional natural gas or methane. The most important of those liquids are pentane and condensate, which are used to dilute bitumen or heavy oil, thus allowing it to flow through pipelines. Hence the name “dilbit.”

Kinder Morgan just told its shareholders how it persuaded the Trudeau government to pay billions for a pipeline no one else wanted to buy

The Trudeau government made financial overtures to Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan more than a month before the pipeline operator issued an ultimatum that drove Ottawa to offer billions to take over the troubled Trans Mountain project, according to a new document released by the company this week.

These previously secret overtures began even though the government had made it clear, during its early negotiations with the Texas multinational, that it didn't want to buy the pipeline and oil tanker expansion project, says the document, a proxy for shareholders that was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

But a timeline included in the proxy shows how the company systematically rejected the government's negotiating position, driving Ottawa to eventually agree at the end of May to buy the rights to the Trans Mountain expansion project and an existing 65-year old pipeline system for $4.5 billion.

If built, Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion would increase the capacity of heavy oil and other petroleum product shipments from Alberta to Burnaby in metro Vancouver.

The proxy document highlights how far the federal government was willing to go to stop the company from abandoning its plans, starting with a trip to Houston early in 2018.

At the time, former natural resources minister Jim Carr and his chief of staff Zoë Caron travelled to the Texas city on March 6, 2018 and offered a “resolution” to concerns that the company and its shareholders were about to lose billions of dollars if they continued spending money on the project without guarantees they could complete or even operate it under tough provincial regulations.

At that point, the company had already spent about $1.1 billion on the expansion, and was expecting to lose all of that money until the government came through with its $4.5 billion offer to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, some related assets and the rights to build the expansion.

An international news agency, Reuters, has described the government offer as a "billion-dollar bailout" for the Texas company....

Photo Essay: Getting Arrested at a Kinder Morgan Protest

Ruth Campbell, a 66-year-old Vancouver resident and former lawyer for the Attorney General of B.C., became the most recent person in a series of arrests at Kinder Morgan’s oil terminal in Burnaby on Aug. 1.

Campbell was arrested alongside Noaa Edwards, and faces up to seven days in jail for blocking access to the Westridge Marine Terminal and halting construction.

The following words are by Ruth Campbell as she recounts her experience in the Protect the Inlet’s organized protest.

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I’ve been attending the Kinder Morgan protests as a supporter at the Burnaby terminals regularly. My opposition against the pipeline developed from my fascination with the southern resident killer whales. These animals are on the verge of extinction and the pipeline will create additional stresses on the struggling population. I cannot except that in a society as rich as Canada, we can’t do anything to protect them.

Additionally, as I learned about the violations of Indigenous land rights, my opposition against the pipeline grew.

Early last week, I was informed about the arrest and sentencing of Laurie Embree, the 70-year-old B.C. woman sentenced to seven days in jail for blocking the gates to Kinder Morgan’s oil terminal in Burnaby. This news saddened me. I was inspired to take action. I couldn’t let one person, a 70-year-old woman, stand for all of us. I had to stand with her.

The large number of police officers at this particular rally surprised me. Roughly 20 officers arrived shortly after we assembled the blockade. I didn’t expect any violence and there wasn’t any. But the mere presence of police and what they represent, the power of the state, made me feel very much a part of the opposition. For me, it was difficult because of my background in the judicial system. Until this moment I was a concerned citizen showing support. Now, I was on the verge of being arrested. The feeling was frightening....

Five Kinder Morgan executives can cash out millions in stock options and bonuses

Five oilpatch executives from Kinder Morgan would be able to cash out more than 300,000 shares — worth millions of dollars — if shareholders of the Texas multinational energy company vote to approve a multibillion dollar sale of assets to the Canadian government, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been told.

The executives are entitled to these stock options based on their existing employee plans with Kinder Morgan and would be allowed to cash out the assets early because they are all leaving the parent company to join a subsidiary that is being purchased by the government.

The early settling of their stock options won't be the only benefit that executives are getting out of the deal. Three of the top executives at Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, David Safari and Scott Stoness, will also be entitled to a combined $3.9 million in bonuses if they remain in their jobs for the next two years.

Kinder Morgan submitted the new document in advance of an Aug. 30 vote by its shareholders in Calgary about whether to accept the transaction.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced on May 29 that it was purchasing the assets, including an existing west coast oil pipeline for $4.5 billion, so that it can proceed with construction of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion project.

The document says the five executives — Anderson, Safari, Stoness, Hugh Harden, and Norm Rinne — will all remain with the company and assets that are being sold to the government. This means that taxpayers will soon be responsible for their pay, including performance bonuses.

Trudeau has said the project is critical to Canada’s economy, supporting jobs as well as national efforts to address climate change. The new details released by the company show how the oilpatch executives would personally benefit from the transaction....

MC Canada staffer sentenced to seven days in jail

Steve Heinrichs was found guilty of criminal and civil contempt of court in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver on Aug. 8, 2018, and was sentenced to seven days in provincial jail. He was immediately taken into custody and transferred to the North Fraser Institute in Coquitlam to serve his sentence.

The day before, Heinrichs, the director of Indigenous-Settler Relations for Mennonite Church Canada, pleaded not guilty to the charge that was laid as a result of his solidarity action on April 20 in Burnaby with the Tsleil-Waututh land defenders who are resisting the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. (That action, he wrote in his “Burnaby Mountain Prayer Witness” (link is external) document, “effectively blocked construction at the site for the day,” which led to his arrest.) He read a statement in court, explaining the motivations for his action, and how, in his mind, it was not in contempt of court or “the rule of law,” but in defence of fundamental Indigenous human rights.

“I chose to act because at the centre of the Christian faith lies the conviction that the Creator suffers with the oppressed; that God takes sides with the victims over against the dominant powers; and that the people who see the issues of our day most clearly are those pushed to the socio-political margins,” he told the judge.

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Several fellow Mennonites appeared in court to support Heinrichs, among them Willard Metzger, executive director of MC Canada; MC B.C. executive minister Garry Janzen; and Henry Krause, chair of MC B.C. Service, Peace and Justice Committee, who also took part in the April 20 protest and who counselled Heinrichs to “be numbered amongst those arrested” on April 20, according to Heinrichs in his “Prayer Witness” document.

In a statement to Canadian Mennonite, Metzger said that while the MC Canada Joint Council was not aware of Heinrichs’s plan to join the protest prior to the event, he did approve of Heinrichs’ participation based on the following:

• It was an ecumenical invitation to participate in a prayer action of protest.
• It was a strong invitation from an Indigenous community.
• It was an invitation to be in support of a regional church.

Tug carrying up to 22,000 litres of fuel capsizes in Fraser River off Vancouver

The smell of diesel filled the air as crews worked to recover a capsized tugboat that spilled as much as 22,000 litres of the fuel in the Fraser River between Vancouver and Richmond on Tuesday.

Canadian Coast Guard spokesman Dan Bate said it’s unknown what caused the George H. Ledcor tug to capsize early Tuesday, just east of Vancouver International Airport.

There were four people aboard the vessel and all were rescued by the crew on a nearby tug, Bate said.

The capsized vessel is part of a gravel tug-and-tow operation, but it was not towing a barge at the time. The vessel was about three-quarters submerged and had been secured to pilings, Bate said.

While the tug’s fuel capacity is 22,000 litres, he said crews are still assessing the total volume of the fuel spill.

It’s unclear what the impact of the spill will be on the ecosystem, which is at the north arm of the salmon-bearing Fraser River.

“Right now it’s too early to see what that looks like, obviously it will depend on the quantities and actions that are taken,” Bate said....

Police arrest anti-pipeline protesters, dismantle encampment near Kinder Morgan facility in B.C.

The RCMP removed and arrested anti-pipeline activists near Vancouver on Thursday to allow city workers to begin dismantling a protest camp outside Kinder Morgan’s facility, but a nearby encampment remains in place and more rallies and protests are expected next week.

The site being taken down – known as Camp Cloud and located on the side of a Burnaby street – is close to where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends on the B.C. coast. It has become a flashpoint for debate over the expansion project, which would more than triple the amount of bitumen and other oil products moving from near Edmonton to Burnaby for shipping overseas by tanker.

The RCMP moved onto the site early Thursday morning, removing 11 people, five of whom were arrested and released. The police and city action followed a court order obtained by the City of Burnaby from the B.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 10.

The RCMP restricted public and media access to the camp on Thursday, citing public-safety concerns....

August is Bold Action Month..

…to Stop Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Project

August is crucial in the fight for a livable climate, clean water and the survival of the Southern Resident Killer Whales.

Justin Trudeau promises that construction of his pipeline and tanker project will intensify this month in Burnaby.

We’re stopping this pipeline. Join us.

Find a date to take Bold Action against construction or witness in support and rally with other Protectors.

Together, we’ll make sure this pipeline will never be built – sign up now.

Day 1 August Week of Action to Stop the Buyout

On Monday August 20th, join Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Only a few weeks remain before Kinder Morgan shareholders vote on the deal to sell the disastrous pipeline and tanker project to Canada. Take Bold Action or witness in support:

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Nanaimo Action at Trudeau’s Cabinet Meeting: Stop The Pipeline!

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers will be meeting in Nanaimo on August 22.

Join us for a big, loud rally outside the meeting to tell Trudeau and his ministers that building the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project during the climate crisis is unacceptable.

EXACT LOCATION TBA: The federal government knows how deeply unpopular it is on the west coast, so it hasn’t revealed where in Nanaimo this meeting will be held. These details likely won’t be announced until just beforehand — watch for details coming soon.