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Trudeau Buys Kinder Morgan Pipeline As First Nations Water Advisories Increase

June 2, 2018 By Emma Lui, Rabble.ca , ,
Yesterday morning the Trudeau government confirmed that it would pay $4.5 billion to buy the Kinder Morgan pipeline. The pipeline project is estimated to cost up to $7.4 billion. This decision was made as the total number of drinking water advisories (DWAs) on First Nations reserves significantly increased this month. There were a total of 124 DWAs at the beginning of May, and now the number has spiked to 174 advisories in the last couple of weeks. The Trudeau government had committed to ending DWAs by 2021. But there hasn't been a significant decrease in the total number of drinking water advisories and the numbers in fact increased this month. In December, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated the cost of ending boil water advisories by 2020 to be $3.2 billion.

Climate Justice And The Kinder Morgan Pipeline: Is This The Next Standing Rock?

May 23, 2018 Theo LeQuesne, Climatejusticeproject.org , , , ,
May 2018. “Standing Rock is everywhere now.” We heard this refrain time and again in the days and weeks that followed the violent defeat and eviction of Standing Rock’s Water Protectors at the Oceti Sakowin camp on the banks of the Cannon Ball River in February last year. And it is true – despite their ultimate defeat, Standing Rock’s Water Protectors have inspired or reinvigorated uprisings against the colonial and extractivist fossil fuel industry (and its enablers in government) across North America. Standing Rock’s legacy lives in the imaginaries of the thousands of people who stood together against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the hundreds of thousands who supported them.

“We Are Going To Not Allow Kinder Morgan To Finish This Pipeline”

May 23, 2018 Andy Rowell, Priceofoil.org , , ,
As the clock ticks down until the May 31 deadline over the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project, which will triple the amount of tar sands being transported from Alberta to the British Columbian coast, the campaign against its expansion is spreading abroad. Yesterday in Seattle, over 200 km south of where the pipeline hits the coast, hundreds of “kayactivists” took to the water to protest against the pipeline. They were part of a demonstration by the US environmental group, Mosquito Fleet, Greenpeace US and Sierra Club that organised a rally in the city against Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion.

Grandfather Scales Tree, Erects Mid-Air Camp To Stop Kinder Morgan Clear-Cutting

May 21, 2018 Staff, Risingtidenorthamerica.org , , ,
Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver) – Early this morning Terry Christenson, a 70-year old Grandfather of two, and former Juno nominee, scaled a tree on the inside of Kinder Morgan’s fence (Westridge terminal side) and erected a mid-air camp suspended from its trunk. Terry constructed the high-flying structure to stop Kinder Morgan’s proposed tree clearing which is being done to enable the company’s drilling through Burnaby Mountain. This pipeline does not have consent of the Indigenous Nations it would pass through. It would endanger the livelihoods and economies of all those that depend on an oil free coast and I for one won’t stand by and let it happen,” said Terry Christenson. “I’m taking this action to protect my grandchildren’s future. I care about this land, this coast and I won’t let it be destroyed all so a Texas oil company can increase its profit share.”

Trudeau Will Have Hell To Pay If He Approves Kinder Morgan

November 25, 2016 Rafe Mair, www.commonsensecanadian , , ,
By Rafe Mair for The Common Sense Canadian. Canada - None should be in the slightest surprised at the anti-British Columbia stance of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. As Talleyrand famously noted when, after the fall of Napoleon the Bourbons were restored, “they learned nothing and forgot nothing”. Thus it is with the Liberals who, once safely back in power, turn their attention to repaying supporters, namely Ontario financiers and the oil industry, often the same people. This ancient Liberal policy never fails. This time Justin Trudeau has overstepped the mark and as Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson warns, if he approves the Kinder Morgan pipeline, “…you’ll see protests like you’ve never seen before …” His Worship is right. British Columbians know that the standard Ottawa patter that something is “in the interests of Canada” is ill-concealed code for “in the interests of Bay Street and whatever they’ve invested in or covet.”

Kinder Morgan’s Request To Police Backfires

February 7, 2016 Domenic Poli, www.gazettenet.com , , ,
By Domenic Poli for the Gazette. Kinder Morgan wants state authority to enter onto more than 400 private properties to conduct surveys for the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project. Deerfield residents who choose to grant Kinder Morgan access to their private property do so at their own risk, according to the Select Board. Cristobal Bonifaz, an attorney working for Deerfield in its opposition to the pipeline, helped draft the nine-page document and said Thursday the risk in this case refers to any consequence of surveyors “fiddling around” on one’s land. Bonifaz said Deerfield is prepared to supersede any state authority and have police officers arrest anyone who enters onto private property as part of the pipeline project.

Feds Block Citizen Web Portal As Key Deadline Looms

January 4, 2016 Mary Serreze, www.masslive.com , , ,
By Mary Serreze for Mass Live - Foes of interstate gas pipeline expansion in New England cried foul Sunday night as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's e-filing system remained shut down, three days before a key deadline passes for citizen participation in the matter of Kinder Morgan's proposed 415-mile Northeast Energy Direct. Individuals, towns and businesses hoping to apply as "intervenors" in the pipeline case have until 5 p.m. on Jan. 6 to file motions with the federal regulators. But they have been blocked in their efforts since Dec. 31, and were previously blocked from the FERC web portal over the long Christmas weekend.

Rising Tide Disrupts Kinder Morgan’s Dinner

January 26, 2015 Rising Tide - Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, www.facebook.com , , , ,
A group of demonstrators interrupted Kinder Morgan employees during their dinner at local seafood restaurant Fishworks to show them the real impacts the Trans Mountain expansion project will have on the province. “Every branch of Kinder Morgan needs to take responsibility for the company’s involvement in oil and gas expansion. The momentum built on Burnaby Mountain isn’t slowing down, and we want to make it clear that Kinder Morgan is involved not just in pipeline construction, but in other facets of fossil fuel transportation as well,” said Tamo Campos. The company plans to twin its existing Trans Mountain pipeline and triple its capacity, aiming to send 890,000 barrels of diluted bitumen to the coast every day. Drilling to determine whether the new pipeline would be built through Burnaby Mountain was met with strong resistance from both First Nations and settlers all over the Lower Mainland.

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