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I spent over 36 hours suspended from a Vancouver bridge to stop a tar sands tanker
For over 36 hours, six other climbers and I hung from the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver), putting our bodies in the way of a massive tar sands oil tanker and preventing it from passing through.
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PRESS RELEASE: Peaceful Greenpeace Canada blockade of oil tanker ends
4 July 2018 (UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES/VANCOUVER) — The Greenpeace Canada aerial bridge blockade in the path of the Trans Mountain tar sands oil tanker, Serene…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada blockade reaches 30-hour mark as tanker pulls away from terminal
The protest against the TMX pipeline and planned sevenfold increase of tanker traffic, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s planned $4.5B buyout of the project, is entering its second…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial bridge blockade in path of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic
The message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—and pipeline companies and banks watching the TMX battle—is clear: ‘Not in our name, not with our money will any new pipeline be built.’…
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LIVE : Climbers block oil tanker from Vancouver bridge
Early this morning, seven climbers including Indigenous leaders and Greenpeace activists repelled from the Iron Workers’ Memorial Bridge in Vancouver, forming an aerial blockade in the path of oil tanker…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial blockade of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic
HAPPENING NOW: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial blockade of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic 3 July 2018 (VANCOUVER / UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY) — Greenpeace Canada has just launched an aerial blockade of…
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PRESS RELEASE: Over 1,000 people attend emergency rally against Kinder Morgan in Montreal
Over 1,000 people attend emergency rally against Kinder Morgan in Montreal urging Trudeau to make a decision in line with the Paris Agreement Access photos at www.act.gp/2LCla4f 27 May 2018…
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Breaking: Greenpeace USA & Mosquito Fleet activists block barge from entering Kinder Morgan’s Seattle facility
15 May 2018 (SEATTLE / VANCOUVER) — Today, Greenpeace USA and Mosquito Fleet activists blocked an oil barge from entering Kinder Morgan’s Seattle facility by locking themselves to the pier.…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace activists drop banner, occupy Canadian High Commission in U.K.
British and Canadian activists, including the B.C. woman who scaled the EU’s tallest building in 2013 to protest Arctic oil drilling, are on the scene. Photos are available at the link below.…
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Whether by land or by sea resistance to tar sands pipeline continues to grow.
As three tar sands pipelines (Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain, Enbridge Line 3, and TransCanada Keystone XL) try to press forward the resistance to them is rising up, growing and taking action by land and by sea.
