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Rebel Youth Magazine
The movement against tar sands pipelines has been growing over the last year. Indigenous communities and activists in British Colombia have so far successfully blocked the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline that proposed to run from the Alberta tar sands to the BC coast.
Rebel Youth Magazine
The movement against tar sands pipelines has been growing over the last year. Indigenous communities and activists in British Colombia have so far successfully blocked the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline that proposed to run from the Alberta tar sands to the BC coast.
Indigenous people, workers, and community members in Ontario
and Québec are also concerned with Enbridge’s proposal to reverse the flow of line
9 and send tar sands bitumen from Sarnia all the way to Montréal.
On Saturday October 20, activists against the reversal of
line 9 protested in Toronto at 12 pm outside the metro Toronto Convention Center.
The protest was set to occur during Enbridge’s hearing about line 9 with the National
Energy Board (NEB), but the meeting was postponed.
The day before, on October 19, activists at the hearing
burst into song, chants, and played drums in order to disrupt the meeting. The noisy protest was so powerful that members
of the NEB fled the hearings. Activists at the protest against line 9 expressed
their belief that the hearings had been postponed because of the work of the
movement against the reversal of Line 9.
“Enbridge is afraid
of us,” said Vanessa Gray, one of the first speakers at the rally.
