Over Labour Day weekend in Vancouver members of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations launched a protest flotilla against the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s oil pipeline. It transports crude from the Alberta tar sands to Vancouver.
CBC:
Protesters from the Tsleil Waututh and Squamish First Nations travelled along a ceremonial route from Ambleside Park, just west of Lions Gate Bridge, before heading through Burrard Inlet and then east towards Cates Park in Deep Cove.
Others from Vancouver Island and Washington were expected to join the paddle, which culminated with both First Nations signing a joint declaration against the pipeline project deliver oil to tankers on B.C.’s coast.
Texas-based Kinder-Morgan is proposing a $4 billion expansion of the Trans-Mountain pipeline.
CBC:
The Trans Mountain line stretches 1,150 kilometres between Edmonton and terminals in the Vancouver area and Washington State. It carries heavy and light crude oil, . . . → Read More: Drive-by Planet: First Nations protest Kinder-Morgan pipeline: Naomi Klein at Salish Festival - Syndicated from http://www.drivebyplanet.com/