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Pipeline Protesters Aren’t Hypocrites for Driving Cars | Joseph McLean

Pipeline Protesters Aren’t Hypocrites for Driving Cars | Joseph McLean.

The rallies on B.C.’s Burnaby Mountain are over. The core work is done, the crowds have dispersed. More than 100 people were arrested up there in the mud and rain, before the injunction hit the wall. Scientists and activists, first nations leaders and fresh-faced hippies. Arrested for crossing a line in the forest, a line that turned out to be wrong anyway. In the middle of all this, in the midst of the singing and shouting and media tag teams, Kinder Morgan sunk their test holes into the rock. Burnaby Mountain was stable, they announced — with absolutely no sense of irony.

Opinions run hot around these conflicts, and more is ahead of us. There are many arguments for and against civil protest, but one of the most persistent is that these people are hypocrites. That if you drive a car, take a plane, use hairspray, or otherwise consume fossil fuels in any way, you have no right to stand up.

This comparison is troubling for a number of reasons. First of all, it seeks to reduce the legitimate and complex public concern for this project. Never mind questions ofland sovereignty, spill danger, local jurisprudence, or the loss of provincial independence. Don’t worry about National Energy Board changes that exclude public input and ignore climate science. So what if Bill C-45 exempts pipelines from the water protection act. All you need to know is that protesters really don’t like oil. And yet they drive trucks and wear polyester clothing, can you believe it!

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Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line.

VANCOUVER – About a dozen more people have been arrested at a pipeline protest in a conservation area in Vancouver.

The protesters were taken away Saturday after crossing a police line on Burnaby Mountain, where crews have been conducting survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Arrests began at the site Thursday, four days after a court deadline passed for activists to leave the survey site.

Kinder Morgan, the company that’s proposing the expansion, says drilling has begun at one of two, 250-metre-deep holes and that work trucks, crews and their equipment will continue to move onto the mountain throughout the weekend.

If approved, the expanded pipeline could ship almost 900,000 barrels a day of crude from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

Opponents argue the increased quantity of oil being transported would increase the risk of a devastating spill.

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