{"id":54765,"date":"2020-08-21T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54765"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:46:44","slug":"canadas-trans-mountain-pipeline-inches-forward-but-opposition-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54765","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the village of tiny houses, erected in the path of a long-distance oil pipeline that runs from Alberta to the Pacific\u00a0Coast.<\/p>\n

The attackers punched and kicked a man, shouting profanity and racial slurs. One of them stole a truck and used it to mow down a display of red dresses, hung as a memorial to\u00a0missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls<\/a>, who are disproportionally affected by violence. The driver then crashed the truck into one of the\u00a0houses.<\/p>\n

The small houses were built by Secwepemc and Ktunaxa people, who built them to assert their rights over unceded Indigenous land, through which an expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline is slated to carry diluted tar sands oil. Members of the village believe the attack was related to their opposition to the\u00a0pipeline.<\/p>\n

Confrontation between the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and a variety of Indigenous and environmental groups is heating up, precisely because the new pipeline is now moving forward with construction after years of legal\u00a0battles.<\/p>\n

The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau purchased the Trans Mountain system from Kinder Morgan in 2018 in order to keep the expansion alive. Texas-based Kinder Morgan was about to scrap the project, but Canada\u00a0bought<\/a>\u00a0it for C$4.5 billion and vowed to see a second, \u201ctwin,\u201d pipeline built alongside the existing line. The expansion would triple the system\u2019s capacity to 890,000 barrels of oil per day, allowing Alberta\u2019s tar sands to expand to overseas markets.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[103,106,5317,6010,657,8054],"class_list":["post-54765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-desmog-blog","tag-nick-cunningham","tag-protests","tag-transmountain-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54766,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions\/54766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}