KM: Young Albertans disrupt Morneau's meeting

KM: Young Albertans disrupt Morneau's meeting

Postby Oscar » Thu May 31, 2018 6:01 am

Young Albertans disrupt Morneau's meeting with business leaders to oppose pipeline purchase

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May 30, 2018 Media Release

(PHOTO: Alberta Pipeline Purchase Protest)

Calgary AB (Treaty 7 Territory) – Members of Climate Justice Edmonton and the Council of Canadians disrupted a $200-a-plate luncheon between Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Calgary business leaders on Tuesday to call out the government's decision to purchase the Trans Mountain Pipeline System and Expansion Project (TMEP).

“The only guarantee for this project is that it will ultimately fail,” said Climate Justice Edmonton’s Anna Gerrard. “This 4.5 billion dollar purchase is a misuse of public funds and political power, one that we cannot afford in 2018. TMEP was approved through a rigged review process and will continue to lack the consent of impacted communities, regardless of this undemocratic expenditure.”

Minister Morneau stated Monday that using public money to buy the TMEP project was in the national interest, yet it was deemed too risky for Kinder Morgan's own shareholders. Many alternate investments, including clean drinking water on reserves, healthcare, or clean energy could all create more jobs while ensuring long-term value for the public.

“This purchase does nothing to curb the Indigenous-led resistance this pipeline faces in the courts and the streets,” said Bronwen Tucker of Climate Justice Edmonton and the Council of Canadians. “TMEP directly defies the Canadian government’s commitments to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the Paris Agreement.”

“We remain committed to stopping this project that violates the rights of Indigenous peoples, defies climate science, and puts our waterways at risk,” added Gerrard. “Regardless of who owns the pipeline, we will continue to stand with frontline communities to ensure that this project will NEVER be built.” -30-

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Re: KM: Young Albertans disrupt Morneau's meeting

Postby Oscar » Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:48 pm

Kinder Morgan whistleblower disrupts Trudeau at FCM meeting in Halifax

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June 1, 2018 Media Release

PM meets resistance to pipeline bail out from coast to coast

K’JIPUKTUK (Halifax) – A piercing whistle interrupted Justin Trudeau’s speech at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in Halifax on Friday.

“Justin Trudeau has made me an unwilling shareholder in the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, currently owned by Kinder Morgan,” says whistleblower and Council of Canadians organizer Robin Tress. “So I am blowing the whistle on this terrible investment and on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for brokering this bad deal.”

Resistance against Kinder Morgan is holding strong in BC and spreading across the country. The Indigenous-led legal challenges to federal and National Energy Board approvals are ongoing.

The Trudeau government announced this week it will spend $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs from Alberta to B.C. The government is purchasing the proposed twinning of the pipeline to carry diluted bitumen for export in coastal waters, but the construction costs aren’t even included in the purchase price.

Polls show that the majority of people in Canada are against using public money for the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Building the new pipeline would violate Indigenous rights, is inconsistent with the Paris Climate Agreement, and threatens waterways and the West Coast with a major diluted bitumen spill.

Economist Robyn Allen, who has investigated the Kinder Morgan pipeline, suggests that costs could surge to more than $15 billion for taxpayers. “Buying this pipeline will mean that government will waste billions of dollars it could have otherwise spent on providing clean drinking water on reserves, improving health care and education, taking real climate action, and so much more,” says Tress. - 30-

Contact: Robin Tress, Council of Canadians, 902-223-8526

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