Protesters Locks Down on Kinder Morgan Facility (Canada)

13/9/14

Ris­ing Tide Coast Sal­ish Ter­rior­ies reports that pro­test­ers have used bicy­cle locks to lock them­selves to a Kinder Mor­gan facil­i­ty in Burn­a­by, in unced­ed Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries in so-called British Colum­bia.

Kinder Mor­gan has begun sur­vey­ing and cut­ting trees in con­ser­va­tion and park­land on Burn­a­by Moun­tain, unced­ed Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries. The giant US oil pipeline com­pa­ny plans to clear park­land in prepa­ra­tion for bor­ing a tun­nel through the North­ridge of Burn­a­by Moun­tain con­trary to city bylaws.

The pur­pose of the tun­nel will be to trans­port crude tar sands oil from the stor­age tanks at For­est Hill to Westridge Ter­mi­nal. Many geol­o­gists and seis­mol­o­gists are con­cerned that the North­ridge will be sub­ject to extreme shak­ing in the event of even a mod­er­ate earth­quake putting at risk the pipeline, the huge oil stor­age tanks at For­est Hill and the Afra­max tankers at Westridge ter­mi­nal. A mod­er­ate earth­quake to the huge tanks, pipeline and ter­mi­nal would make the 2007 pipeline spill at Westridge minor in com­par­i­son.

The pro­test­ers, at the time of writ­ing, were still locked to the gate.

Update: Six peo­ple were arrest­ed after thir­teen hours locked-down and sub­se­quent­ly released.

For updates on the sit­u­a­tion check @risingtide604

 

Cor­rec­tion: We mis­tak­en­ly report­ed that this was a Ris­ing Tide Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries action.