At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar
sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.
Not exact matches
A quiet application to the National Energy Board (NEB) may soon vastly expand oil
tanker traffic through the waters of Burrard Inlet, making Vancouver the major conduit of oils
sands crude and bitumen to China.
Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar
sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil
tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.
In December 2013, the Associated Press reported that a planned pipeline transporting Alberta oil
sands to Vancouver, British Columbia would increase local
tanker traffic «nearly sevenfold.»
Lummi Nation Member and commercial fisherman, on increased oil
tanker ship
traffic that will come with a proposed tar
sands pipeline in the Pacific Northwest.