Enbridge backtracks on decision to seize assets from environmental group

No Enbridge, art by Andy Everson, Kwakwaka’wakw.

By Estefania Duran, Global News, October 17, 2017

Staff at the Vancouver office of an environmental group got an unexpected visit on Tuesday from sheriffs who were holding court documents authorizing them to seize the organization’s assets on behalf of Enbridge.

Karen Mahon with Stand.earth, formerly known as Forest Ethics, said the documents authorized the sheriffs to take and sell all of their assets to recover money owed to the pipeline giant.

Environmental groups plan for pipeline protest training; MP’s office target of ‘sit-in’

A group of women responded to the Enbridge decision with a peaceful sit-in at Conservative MP James Moore’s office in Port Moody, June 18, 2014.

Various organizations gear up in anticipation of actions against Northern Gateway

By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, June 18, 2014

VANCOUVER — Stanley Park could become a training ground for civil disobedience aimed at thwarting the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project as early as this summer, the head of an environmental group said Wednesday in Vancouver.

ForestEthics Advocacy believes that anyone planning to engage in non-violent civil disobedience should be educated on the process and the implications, said the group’s oilsands campaign director Ben West in an interview.

“We’re looking at doing a series of trainings over the summer … my guess is Stanley Park and other visible locations,” West said. “It would be open to the public to come and be part of them.”