Burnaby B.C. – The battle over the construction of the controversial Kinder Morgan backed Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline has heated up significantly in the past several weeks. In mid-March, 1st Nations communities called for mass and continued direct actions against the Texas based company and to “Protect the Inlet.” Continue reading
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Kinder Morgan Suspends Non – Essential Funding on Trans Mountain Pipeline
Calgary, April 8th 2018 – Kinder Morgan Limited has announced that they are suspending all non-essential funding related to the controversial Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline. Continue reading
Kill the Funding, Kill the Pipeline, Divest the Globe by Matt Remle
Corporations and banks will not move on from the fossil fuel era because of our compelling moral and ecological arguments about why they should. So we are learning to speak their language. Money talks. Continue reading
Treaty Alliance First Nations Warn That There Will be No New Tar Sands Pipelines
August 11, 2017, Turtle Island – While the British Columbia provincial government yesterday was prohibiting Kinder Morgan from starting work on its Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline and tanker project on public land until First Nations rights are respected, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley was on site celebrating the start of construction of Enbridge’s “Line 3” project, a tar sands pipeline also mired in Indigenous opposition – including from the 150 First Nations and Tribes who have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion. Continue reading
Paddle to Protect: 250-mile Canoe Journey to be held to Stop Tar Sands Pipeline
From August 12th- September 2nd, Indigenous youth will embark on a 250-mile long canoe journey to draw attention to the proposed Tar Sands pipeline Line 3. Continue reading