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#BREAKING a new coalition is forming to demand the federal government release the true costs of the #TransMountain pipeline.
We’re #live at @UBCIC at m.facebook.com/standearth/ #StopTMX #cdnpoli #ClimateJustice
We’re #live at @UBCIC at m.facebook.com/standearth/ #StopTMX #cdnpoli #ClimateJustice
Eugene Kung from @WCELaw discusses how it is harder to get access to information about the pipeline now that it is federally owned.
How is the Canadian government less transparent than a Texas-based pipeline corporation? #TMX #cdnpoli
How is the Canadian government less transparent than a Texas-based pipeline corporation? #TMX #cdnpoli
“There is a good chance this pipeline will never be paid off” and the Canadian taxpayer will be left to deal the costs.
Sounds like a solid economic move in the middle of a #ClimateCrisis, huh? 🙃🤦♀️
Sounds like a solid economic move in the middle of a #ClimateCrisis, huh? 🙃🤦♀️
1. Had the misfortune of hearing a full-on, old-fashioned white Colonialist diatribe delivered on CKNW this morning by Bruce Allen on his not so "Reality Check" .
#racist #classist #Transmountain #cdnpoli #bcpoli #protecttheinlet
#racist #classist #Transmountain #cdnpoli #bcpoli #protecttheinlet
2. Bruce delivered all the typical supremacist big business standard lines of comradery. Bruce was speaking about the Kinder Morgan protest on Burnaby Mtn & to his audience to keep them focused on the 'right talking points'.
3. Bruce spoke about the water & land protectors in the most dehumanizing terms he’s allowed to on morning radio. He called First Nations peoples DTES homeless derelicts “unaware of what they’re protesting anyway”, merely looking for a place to squat.
1/ I’m in an intensive 50 hour wilderness first aid course this week. When I got to class today and told some of my classmates about the federal government’s purchase of the #KinderMorgan #pipeline, most of them asked “wait, so they bought it so they can block it?”
#StopKM
#StopKM
2/ It seemed intuitive to all of them that given the government knows and promotes the fact that we need to be emitting less pollution, it would be in its interest to buy a project designed to do the opposite, and then cancel it.
When I explained that no, the government has...
When I explained that no, the government has...
3/ ...bought a project deemed too risky and uncertain for #KinderMorgan’s investors in order to guarantee it is forced through against the wishes of Nations that have never given consent and through communities that have not given permission, I could see their faces drop in...
