Within weeks Justin Trudeau will be making a decision on whether Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion will be approved or not. What is this pipeline?
Upon completion, the Trans Mountain pipeline system would transport more than 890,000 barrels a day of primarily diluted bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to B.C.’s west coast. Most of this heavy oil is destined for Westridge dock in Burnaby, where it would be loaded onto oil tankers that would navigate past Vancouver, the Gulf Islands and Victoria before reaching open ocean.
The expansion would increase oil tanker traffic from around 60 per year to more than 400 per year.
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In a few weeks, Prime Minister Trudeau will make a choice; deny climate change or act on it. His choice comes in the form of an 890,000 barrel per day pipeline called Kinder Morgan. Larger than the Keystone XL pipeline, it will have the same climate impact as adding over 30 million new cars to Canada’s roads. Approving this pipeline would be an act of climate denial.
Events (all on November 21st, 2016)
Alberta:
British Columbia:
Vancouver (Crab Park)
Manitoba:
New Brunswick:
Nova Scotia:
Ontario:
Guelph (University of Guelph, UC)
Prince Edward Island:
Quebec:
Saskatchewan:
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Update: Added a bunch of new events.