Kinder Morgan Surveyor Office Blocked by ‘Pipeline’, Canada

Octo­ber 7th, 2014

Activists installed a “pipeline” ear­ly this mor­ing in front of the down­town offices of McEl­han­ney map­ping. The adhoc group says the com­pa­ny was taget­ed for its part in sur­vey­ing for the con­tro­ver­sial Kinder Mor­gan pipeline expan­sion plan on Burn­a­by Moun­tain.

The group erect­ed a pvc pipeline, com­plete with drip­ping ‘bitu­men’ and notices to “Get off Burn­a­by Moun­tain.”

From the group’s release:

“Ear­ly this morn­ing the entrance to McElhanney’s down­town Van­cou­ver office was block­ad­ed. The doors were locked, a “bitu­men pipeline” blocked the stairs and posters were past­ed. The action is in response to McElhanney’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in sur­vey­ing for the Kinder Mor­gan pipeline expan­sion project in Burn­a­by .

 

“The pro­pos­al aims to increase the num­ber of bar­rels of Alber­ta bitu­men deliv­ered to Burn­a­by and the Sal­ish Sea from 300,000 bar­rels a day to 890,000 a day. This would result in an astro­nom­i­cal and dan­ger­ous increase in tanker traf­fic through the Bur­rard Inlet. The expan­sion cross­es the unced­ed ter­ri­to­ry of many Indige­nous nations and is evi­dence of con­tin­ued oppres­sive col­o­niza­tion and ram­pant cap­i­tal­ist greed.  Resis­tance to this project is strong and unwa­ver­ing!

“The Secwepemc Women War­rior Soci­ety has been vocal­ly opposed to the projects’ intru­sion through the heart of their ter­ri­to­ry, the Tsleil-Wau­tuth Nation has launched a legal bat­tle as well as cre­at­ed a treaty with sur­round­ing nations vow­ing to pro­tect the Sal­ish Sea, even local may­ors are stand­ing up in oppo­si­tion. Despite the resound­ing no from affect­ed com­mu­ni­ties, Kinder Mor­gan is con­tin­u­ing with the project and hir­ing com­pa­nies to do inva­sive stud­ies that are against Coast Sal­ish law and even “Cana­di­an” colo­nial bylaws. No means no and the peo­ple, led by Indige­nous resis­tance are not back­ing down to cor­po­ra­tions!

“This dis­rup­tion has been brought to you by a group of friends who refuse to accept, and are com­mit­ted to resist­ing, the con­tin­ued col­o­niza­tion of indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries by cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ment.  We oppose the oppres­sive nature of the oil and gas indus­try in our fight for cli­mate and social jus­tice. We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with front­line com­mu­ni­ties who are fight­ing destruc­tive and oppres­sive resource extrac­tion projects.”

The office entrance has now been blocked off by Van­cou­ver police.