{"id":306,"date":"2018-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/uncategorized\/306\/breaking-greenpeace-usa-mosquito-fleet-activists-block-barge-from-entering-kinder-morgans-seattle-facility\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:29:09","slug":"breaking-greenpeace-usa-mosquito-fleet-activists-block-barge-from-entering-kinder-morgans-seattle-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/306\/breaking-greenpeace-usa-mosquito-fleet-activists-block-barge-from-entering-kinder-morgans-seattle-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Greenpeace USA & Mosquito Fleet activists block barge from entering Kinder Morgan’s Seattle facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 May 2018 (SEATTLE \/ VANCOUVER) \u2014 Today, Greenpeace USA and Mosquito Fleet activists blocked<\/a> an oil barge from entering Kinder Morgan’s Seattle facility by locking themselves to the pier.<\/p>\n

Local kayaktivists supporting the blockade from beside the facility have deployed 32-foot by 74-foot water banner that reads \u201cNOT THEN\u201d with a Shell Oil logo, and \u201cNOT NOW,\u201d with the Trans Mountain logo \u2014 highlighting that Kinder Morgan now faces the same resistance that helped defeat oil giant Shell\u2019s Arctic drilling plans almost exactly three years ago<\/a> by challenging Shell\u2019s use of the port of Seattle to host its Arctic drilling vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinder Morgan\u2019s Trans Mountain pipeline tramples Indigenous rights, threatens communities and their access to clean water, and the increased tanker traffic from the pipeline could decimate marine wildlife including the 76 remaining Southern Resident orcas,\u201d said Greenpeace USA activist and Seattle resident Samantha Suarez. \u201cTaking action today is my responsibility so that the next generations know what an orca looks like. We have to stand up to these companies and say enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Against a backdrop of mounting resistance, today\u2019s activity comes just two weeks before Kinder Morgan is set to determine whether or not it will abandon its controversial Trans Mountain expansion project.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s action shows that the resistance to Kinder Morgan\u2019s tar sands tanker superhighway continues right down the coastline. From Vancouver and Seattle in Coast Salish territories to San Francisco, we stand united in our love for this coast and our commitment to protect it from the dangers Kinder Morgan would bring. If Justin Trudeau breaks his promises and uses our tax dollars to bail out a Texas company\u2019s failing pipeline and tanker project, he\u2019ll be investing in a pipeline that will never get built and is facing an international movement of resistance on both side of the border,\u201d said Mike Hudema, Climate and Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Canada, from Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Seattle kayaktivists also took to the water in March<\/a>, just days after Washington Governor Jay Inslee<\/a> announced his support for the B.C. government in its opposition to Kinder Morgan\u2019s new pipeline. If Kinder Morgan\u2019s project were to go ahead, the waters of the Salish Sea just off B.C. and Washington would see a seven-fold increase in tar sands tanker traffic, creating an oil tanker superhighway down the West Coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking action today to protect our waters, our communities, and our climate from Kinder Morgan,\u201d said Mosquito Fleet kayaktivist and local resident Kara Sweidel. \u201cThis is just the beginning. As long as they pursue this pipeline, Kinder Morgan has nowhere to hide. We\u2019re here to show investors and policymakers alike that this project is toxic, and it will be met with increasing resistance on both sides of the colonial border.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinder Morgan and other pipeline companies like TransCanada and Energy Transfer Partners continue to face protests, legal challenges from impacted communities and Indigenous Peoples, negative international press, and delays. More than 200 people<\/a> have been arrested resisting Kinder Morgan in the past two months. In April, Greenpeace UK confronted Prime Minister Trudeau with a protest<\/a> outside the Canadian High Commission in London. Days later, HSBC, Europe\u2019s biggest bank, announced it would stop funding new tar sands projects.<\/p>\n

This Sunday, May 20th, hundreds of people from across Washington and Oregon are expected to hold a mass day of action, in Seattle,<\/a> to protest the pipeline, including a local rally and a kayaktivist flotilla surrounding Kinder Morgan\u2019s facility.<\/p>\n

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Photos will be here, when available:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greenpeaceusa09\/albums\/72157696831390185<\/a> https:\/\/media.greenpeace.org\/collection\/27MZIFJX50GBI<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow live updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenpeaceusa<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa<\/a><\/p>\n

For interviews with the activists:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cassady Craighill, Greenpeace USA, 828-817-3328<\/p>\n

For additional updates and requests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesse Firempong, Greenpeace Canada, 778-996-6549, jesse.firempong@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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