{"id":23232,"date":"2019-06-18T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=23232"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:29:49","slug":"statement-the-trans-mountain-expansion-will-not-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/23232\/statement-the-trans-mountain-expansion-will-not-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: The Trans Mountain Expansion Will Not Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>June 18, 2019 (Vancouver) &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0In response to the federal Cabinet approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Greenpeace Canada Climate &amp; Energy campaigner Mike Hudema said:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor the Trudeau government to approve this pipeline after declaring a climate emergency makes about as much sense as pouring gasoline on a burning fire. The climate crisis demands an all-hands-on-deck response to meet the demands of science and justice, not another multi-billion dollar subsidy to the oil industry to make the problem worse. The billions it will cost to push this pipeline would be better spent implementing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greennewdealcanada.ca\/\">Green New Deal<\/a>\u00a0to create jobs and put people to work so we can solve the climate emergency our government just declared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0-End-<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nLoujain Kurdi, Communications Officer,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:loujain.kurdi@greenpeace.org,\">loujain.kurdi@greenpeace.org,<\/a>\u00a0514-577-6657<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2019 (Vancouver) &#8211;\u00a0In response to the federal Cabinet approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Greenpeace Canada Climate &amp; Energy campaigner Mike Hudema said: \u201cFor the Trudeau government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":23236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,25,32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-23232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-energysolutions","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23241,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions\/23241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=23232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}