GRANDMOTHER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY TO SERVE 7 DAYS IN JAIL FOR OPPOSING TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE
Laurie Embree of 108 Mile Ranch was arrested in June and is the first of nine to face jail time as activists vow increased resistance on Burnaby Mountain
Laurie Embree of 108 Mile Ranch was arrested in June and is the first of nine to face jail time as activists vow increased resistance on Burnaby Mountain
In light of recent tensions among anti-pipeline land protectors at Camp Cloud, the City of Burnaby, and some of the residents near the Burnaby Mountain Kinder Morgan tank farm, the core group of BROKE (Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion) offers the following.
Purchase agreement indicates the deal is subject to a U.S. national security review
The federal government's plan to purchase Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure still faces a potential spoiler in the form of a U.S. national security review — setting up the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump could veto the deal.
BERLIN – Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, too many policymakers have fallen for the oil and gas industry’s rhetoric about how it can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Tall tales about “clean coal,” “oil pipelines to fund clean energy” and “gas as a bridge fuel” have coaxed governments into rubber-stamping new fossil fuel projects, even though current fossil fuel production already threatens to push temperatures well beyond the Paris agreement’s limit of well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
