On Saturday, October 28th, a group of protesters gathered at the Kinder Morgan barge in Burrard Inlet to protest its construction.
Kayakers paddled out to Kinder Morgan’s construction crane, forcing operations to come to a halt.
Kayaktivists moving to Kinder Morgan's construction crane. This pipeline will not be built. Get your money out now. #StopKM #cdnpoli #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/nkS9uDPbze
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2017
Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada, who wrote about the battle with the controversial pipeline and provided updates on the protest, said that the proper consultation was not done.
“Consent has not been given, the impacts are too great, and it is not in Canada’s national interest,” Hudema writes.
Hudema quotes First Nations leaders who are taking Kinder Morgan to court in order to protect their land and clean drinking water. He says the project would cross and endanger hundreds of rivers and streams, as well put the Southern Resident Killer Whale at an increased risk with the 400 supertankers the project would bring to the Burrard Inlet every year.
On our way! From land & by sea. We're sending a reminder to @JustinTrudeau & Kinder Morgan - this pipeline has no consent. #StopKM #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/zijhl4MhOg
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2017
"You can't put a price on sacred"
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2017
~Rueben George, Tsleil Wauth Nation.#stopkm #stopkmflotilla #cdnpoli #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/pe5IhJVcEr
Hudema last updated the event saying that construction had been stopped on Saturday.
#StopKMFlotilla passes #KinderMorgan no-go zone, construction has been stopped! We choose water, #NotPipelines #stopkm #cdnpoli #WaterIsLife pic.twitter.com/Me674q0DG1
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2017
These brave activists stopped Kinder Morgan's construction plans today. People power will #StopKM. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #WaterIsLife pic.twitter.com/43E4DDJkr1
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2017
The Trans Mountain Expansion is a $7.4 billion project that will parallel the 1,150 km route of the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline, which was built in 1953.
The project aims to add approximately 980 km of new pipeline and reactivate 193 km of existing pipeline.
We will stop this pipeline. Watch us @JustinTrudeau. #StopKM #StopKMFlotilla pic.twitter.com/6ZQee2J6da
— Nayeli Jimenez (@nayelijs) October 28, 2017
Kinder Morgan says that the routing of the proposed expansion will remain along the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline route where practical – 89% of the new pipeline would parallel the existing pipeline system or linear infrastructure in an attempt to minimize environmental and community impacts.
Two other major pipeline projects were scrapped this year when TransCanada announced it would not be going through with the Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects.
