With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberal cabinet in Nanaimo, B.C. for a retreat, people are protesting the government91裸聊视频檚 proposed purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The Wilderness Committee, Rise and Resist, Coast Protectors, Protect the Inlet, Stand and Sierra Club B.C. are gathered outside Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo, where Trudeau and Liberals are meeting.
Sheila Malcolmson, NDP Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP, spoke at the protest rally, railing against federal Liberal energy policies.
91裸聊视频淭he smoke in the air is such an emblem of the climate change crisis,91裸聊视频� said Malcolmson. 91裸聊视频淭hat the federal Liberals have still failed to regulate any greenhouse gas emission reductions is all that people are talking about on the street. That the air from the forest fires is evidence that stems from climate change and it highlights a lack of action federally.91裸聊视频�
The protesters call on the government to cancel the controversial project, according to a press release.
91裸聊视频淲e are [in] Nanaimo to make sure that Prime Minister Trudeau understands that his pipeline will never be built,91裸聊视频� said Will George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation member and leader of Kwekwecnewtxw (the Watch House) on Burnaby Mountain, in the press release. 91裸聊视频淥ur resistance and resolve have only got stronger since the federal buyout announcement. Trudeau will not get away with forcing a tar sands pipeline through unceded lands.91裸聊视频�
Anti-pipeline protesters have converged on the Vancouver Island Conference Centre while Trudeau's cabinet retreat is taking place in Nanaimo this morning.
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The group also said the increased tanker traffic that the pipeline could bring could have an impact on the southern resident orca population.
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91裸聊视频淲ith fires raging across British Columbia and beyond, we91裸聊视频檙e getting a preview of what climate change will bring to this part of the world,91裸聊视频� said Torrance Coste, Wilderness Committee Vancouver Island campaigner, in the press release. 91裸聊视频淔orcing a tar sands pipeline through now without the consent of indigenous nations and local communities is completely unacceptable. The federal government needs to know that this coast won91裸聊视频檛 stand for it.91裸聊视频�
Nanaimo-Ladysmith MLA Sheila Malcolmsom is speaking out against Federal Li real energy policies at pipeline protest rally happening at Vancouver Island Conference Centre.
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