Fundraising Appeal for the Secwepemc’ulecw Assembly

All settler comrades, friends and allies,
Elders and women from the Secwepemc nation are hosting a nation-wide
Secwepemc’ulecw Assembly on the land in June. The goals of the Assembly
are to discuss and take action under Secwepemc law against colonial
corporate development impacting Secwepemc’ulecw without Collective
Consent.

Regina Evraz plant to supply pipe for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

CTV News Regina, May 2, 2017

Kinder Morgan has announced a deal that would see Regina’s Evraz steel mill supply more than 75 per cent of the pipe needed to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline between Alberta and B.C.

Squamish Nation files new lawsuit against Kinder Morgan pipeline

Protests against Kinder Morgan exploratory drilling on Burnaby Mountain, 2014.

Province’s environmental approval challenged

by Brent Richter / North Shore News, May 1, 2017

The Squamish Nation has launched another lawsuit in an effort to stop Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, this time targeting the provincial government.

The petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court on April 20 asks for a judicial review of the province’s decision to grant the pipeline an environmental certificate, alleging the province failed in its constitutional duty to consult with the First Nation.

Chilliwack First Nations bands reject Kinder Morgan cash

Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe members vote ‘no’ to mutual benefits agreement for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

by Paul Henderson, The Chilliwack Progress, April 28, 2017

The vote was close and turnout was low but years of consultation has culminated in a group of local Sto:lo bands rejecting a mutual benefits agreement as part of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion granted environmental certificate by B.C. government

A ship receives its load of oil from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project’s Westridge loading dock in Burnaby, British Columbia, Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

Province has tacked on 37 conditions for environmental approval on top of 157 NEB conditions

By Richard Zussman, CBC News, January 11, 2017

The B.C. government has given the green light to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Environment Minister Mary Polak and Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman have issued the environmental assessment approval for the interprovincial twinning of the pipeline between Edmonton, Alberta and Burnaby, B.C.

Trudeau cabinet approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 pipelines, rejects Northern Gateway

Projects will pump nearly a million more barrels of oil a day from Alberta’s oilsands to global markets

By John Paul Tasker, CBC News, November 29, 2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet colleagues signed off on two major pipelines today, projects that will pump nearly a million more barrels of oil a day from Alberta’s oilsands to global markets, if they are constructed.

Standing Rock pipeline protest leader draws a crowd in Vancouver

Tara Houska. Photo: CBC News

Tara Houska shared tactics used in North Dakota where she’s been living at the Standing Rock protest camp

CBC News, November 18, 2016

Hundreds of pipeline opponents packed a meeting in Vancouver Thursday night to hear from a leader of the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota.

Nearly 500 people have been arrested in North Dakota at the ongoing protests against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, and the encampments show no sign of breaking up for the winter.

T’kemlups Indian Band reaches $3-million pipeline deal with Kinder Morgan

By Cam Fortems, Kamloops This Week, October 13, 2016

Following in the steps of neighbouring bands, municipalities and Thompson Rivers University, the Tk’emlups Indian Band (TIB) has inked a deal that will give it millions of dollars if Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline is approved in December.

Masked protesters allegedly steal Kinder Morgan equipment on Burnaby Mountain

A Kinder Morgan vehicle with its windows smashed, Burnaby Mountain, March 23, 2015. Photo: Metro News.

By Emily Jackson, Metro Vancouver, March 23, 2015

The battle between protesters and Kinder Morgan flared up on Monday after masked men allegedly broke into a vehicle on Burnaby Mountain to steal surveying equipment.

“I understand that a window was smashed on one of the contractors vehicles and some surveying equipment was taken by a masked man who we believe has previously interfered with the survey work we’ve been undertaking,” Trans Mountain Pipeline spokeswoman Lizette Parsons Bell said.

Lessons We Keep Learning: Reflections on the Burnaby Mountain Pipeline Opposition

Pacifists and New Age spiritualists hold a group hug against Kinder Morgan… it didn’t work.

by Megan Craig, Vancouver Media Coop, Dec 21, 2014

For many weeks local residents occupied a small piece of unceded Coast Salish Territory (the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area) in hopes of preventing the building of another oil pipeline that would connect the Alberta tar sands with tankers in Vancouver’s harbor and triple the amount of bitumen already transported. So far, there has been a broad range of people acting to oppose this project. Municipal government, left leaning academics, liberals, Indigenous warriors and elders, migrant organizers, grassroots activists, and anarchists, have all taken a stand against the pipeline.