No KM Bailout! Banner Drop Blitz
https://www.facebook.com/events/2006044916375151/
"NO KM BAILOUT!" BANNER DROP BLITZ
Date: Wednesday, May 30
Time: 5 pm- 7 pm
Locations:
1. Willingdon Overpass (over Highway #1) in Burnaby. This is within walking distance of the Brentwood Skytrain Station, and close to BCIT Burnaby and the Grand Villa Casino (4331 Dominion Street)
2. Hastings Pedestrian Overpass. This is three blocks East of Sperling Street at the foot of Burnaby Mountain. The closest address is the 7-11 on the corner (7009 Hastings Street)
3. Stanley Park Overpass in Vancouver. This is right before the Lion’s Gate Bridge, next to the Prospect Point parking lot.
If you need help with transporation to any of these locations, please e-mail: climateconvergence604@gmail.com so we can help you!
Everyone is welcome at any location! If you're wondering which overpass to go to, please prioritize Willingdon. It's big and we want to fill the whole thing!
Join Climate Convergence organizers as we make one last big public statement against the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project - on the evening before Kinder Morgan's May 31 announcement deadline. We plan to fill busy overpasses during rush hour with big banners, signs and people saying, "No Kinder Morgan Pipeline! No Bailout!"
While the Federal and Alberta governments are tripping over each other to promise Kinder Morgan they will spend our taxpayer dollars to guarantee the dirty Tar Sands pipeline project, they both refuse to acknowledge that the primary obstacle to its construction is the indigenous-led opposition to the pipeline.
We have remained committed for already a decade, and we will let them know that whatever happens on May 31 we will continue to educate, organize and mobilize to stop the pipeline!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
MORE INFO ON KINDER MORGAN PIPELINE:
The 6.8 billion dollar pipeline would “twin” an already existing pipeline to move heavy tar sands oil from Edmonton to Burnaby for export. This would triple the amount of oil being moved on the route to 890,000 barrels a day, while crossing approximately 900 watercourses between Edmonton and Burnaby. The pipeline would increase oil tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet from 60 to more than 400 a year. It is opposed by the vast majority of indigenous nations whose traditional territories it would cross and millions more across BC and Canada.
Photo Credit: Murray Bush
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For questions or more information:
Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver * 778-889-7664 * climateconvergence604@gmail.com * www.climateconvergence.ca
