MEDIA RELEASE: Water protectors lock-down Kinder Morgan Terminal
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Water protectors lock-down Kinder Morgan Terminal
May 28, 2017
BURNABY, BC – People opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project have locked down at the gates of the company's Westridge Terminal at 7065 Bayview Drive in Burnaby, British Columbia – on the eve of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) to finance the project.
"This is just the beginning," says Audrey Siegl, a member of the Musqueam Nation who is serving as spokesperson for the citizens blocking access to the terminal, which would see a 7-fold increase in oil exports through the fragile waters of Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea if the project is allowed to proceed.
"Kinder Morgan and the Government of Canada lack a social license to proceed with this project," says Siegl. "If allowed to proceed, this expanded fossil-fuel infrastructure would infringe indigenous rights and contribute to environmental disasters – from worsening climate change to pollution of inland and coastal waterways, fisheries and communities. Kinder Morgan and Canada have failed to properly consult indigenous and non-indigenous communities. So people are beginning to take action themselves to stop the pipeline project."
The blockade of the Kinder Morgan terminal has been initiated at the conclusion of the inaugural Walk 4 the Salish Sea – a 75-kilometre walk from Mile Zero in the provincial capital of Victoria, BC to Kinder-Morgan's Westridge Terminal in Burnaby.
-30- For further information, please contact:
Audrey Siegl, member of the Musqueam Nation, 778-988-8880
Cedar George-Parker, member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, 778-628-7411Ruth Walmsley, member of Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion - BROKE, 604-298-9220