Sentences with phrase «illegal blockade»

When faced with countless illegal blockades by protestors and legal challenges from the British Columbia NDP coalition government, Kinder Morgan has suspended the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion spending on all non-essential activities and related spending related to the project.

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And B.C. has a history of successful, though often illegal, road blockades against resource development, like the one that halted logging in Clayoquot Sound in 1993.

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al - Baker told CNBC on Tuesday that he would bring an end to the «illegal» blockade through a policy of increased flight frequencies.

If enacted and enforced, they would make military deterrence impossible, and preemptive actions, such as the blockade President Kennedy employed as a tactic during the Cuban Missile Crisis, illegal.

You predicate your question on the idea of an «illegal» blockade, but even that is open for interpretation.

The CSC itself campaigns against the «illegal 50 - year - old blockade of Cuba... and to defend the Cuban people's right to be free from foreign intervention».

The blockade ultimately ended after just two months, both because it was completely illegal and on account of bad PR — a movie director named John Langan sued the police department when he was mistakenly stopped at the border.

Roberts argued that blockades were already illegal under state law.

... In particular a blockade is illegal if: (a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other objects essential for its survival; or (b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade.