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Oh, and Canada invested around $34B (yes, that's BILLIONS) in the #TransMountainPipeline for the sole purpose of pushing Albertan oil to saltwater. And Alberta can't fill it to capacity (yet, anyway). So, again: how would leaving Canada benefit AB?
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/trans-mountain-pipelines-soaring-cost-provides-more-proof-government-failure

One more question for Albertans: Who built and paid for your extremely expensive #TransMountainPipeline that delivers your tar sands bitumen to the US refineries and other markets? Canada owns that delivery system and you seem to have forgotten your commitment to your benefactors. We are now asking for your support to stand against American annexation.

The Dirty Secrets: #Whales, the #GrandCanyon and #WarCriminals

by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
November 22, 2024

"People who travel the world will tell you two things that they really love: Whales and the Grand Canyon.

"The majestic Orca whales are now at risk from the massive oil tankers departing the shores of British Columbia with thick crude oil from Alberta tar sands in Canada, bound for distant refineries and ports.

"Meanwhile, in the heart of the Southwest, the Grand Canyon, loved by the people of the world, now has a uranium mine spewing radioactive dust into the air, and endangering Havasupai's aquifer and future generations.

"Neither the Appeals Court in Canada, nor the U.S. EPA and Interior have done anything to stop these assaults on the most beloved natural wonders in the world, whales and the Grand Canyon.

"Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, remembers the long fight to halt the Trans Mountain Pipeline, now carrying crude oil from Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea, which flows off the shores of British Columbia and Washington State to the Pacific.

"George said they thought they were winning their case in Canada's Appeal Court.

"'They said you're right it's going to kill all the Orca whales, you're right -- but we're going to build it anyway,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle in November.

"The uranium mine in the Grand Canyon is now spraying radioactive dust on Havasupai's medicine plants, and into the air for the world's travelers to breathe. The uranium mine, operated by Energy Fuels of Canada, threatens the aquifer of Havasupai and future generations.

"The mine's radioactive truck transport is a deadly risk for Supai, Paiute, Dine', Hopi and Ute on the haul route. The radioactive ore is transported by truck to the Energy Fuels mill in the White Mesa Ute community in southeastern Utah.

"Interior's Deb Haaland, who is Laguna Pueblo and Norwegian, has not only failed to halt the deadly risks and destruction, but has proclaimed that the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will lead the green 'energy transition.'

"Los Alamos Labs produces nuclear weapons and is already poisoning the Pueblo homelands in northern New Mexico with radiation. A federal judge recently halted the push to produce and store more plutonium at the site, citing a risk to the environment."

#AlbertaTarSands #TarSands #LosAlamos #EnvironmentalRacism #Plutonium #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #DebHaaland #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Supai #Paiute #Dine' #Hopi #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesa #Havasupai #SalishSeaAssembly #Salish #OceansAreLife #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #TsleilWaututh #TsleilWaututhNation #CanadasAppealsCourt #TransmountainPipeline #RuebenGeorge #BritishColumbia #WashingtonState #NoUraniumMining #NoTarSands #Oiligarchy #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #ProtectHaKamwe #NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife

Rueben George "We Are People of the Water" Voices from the Salish Sea

Faced with the economic smallpox of oil pipelines, Rueben George says hold tight to your spiritual intention

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, November 20, 2024

SEATTLE -- "They never stopped fighting. Even when they cut off his grandfather's finger as a child in residential school because he couldn't speak English, even when they put them in jail for protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline, they never stopped fighting. Even when the appeals court decided that shipping the dirty tarsand oil was more important than the survival of the Orca whales, they did not surrender.

"'Even though we're almost extinct, we are still here," said Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil Waututh Nation.
'We're People of the Water. That's our First Mother,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle.

#TransmountainPipeline #SalishSeaAssembly #ResidentialSchools #ReaderSupportedNews #WaterIsLife #WaterDefenders #LandBack #DefendTheSacred
#BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism
#ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest #PetrolState #PetroState #Oiligarchy #ResidentialSchools #StolenChildren #CulturalGenocide #RuebenGeorge, #TsleilWaututhNation

Coast #Salish #FreedomFighters: From Alberta #TarSands to the #SalishSea

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews Nov. 7, 2024

SEATTLE -- "The dead birds floating in the #AlbertATarSands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased #OilTankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the #TransMountainPipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"'We are not just #activists, we are #revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years,' said #KanahusManuel, #Secwepemc and #Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

"Speaking at the State of Emergency for The Salish Sea in #SeattleWashington on Thursday, Kanahus said, 'We are the title holders to the land.'"

#LandBack #DefendTheSacred #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest

Burnaby planning disaster emergency exercise for Trans Mountain facilities
The city says the risk of a catastrophic event is low but it wants to strike a balance that acknowledges an incident could occur.
#globalnews #Environment #Disaster #Emergency #TransMountainPipeline
https://globalnews.ca/news/10737023/burnaby-trans-mountian-planning/

No, they can't. "The Trans Mountain contradiction: how can Canada lead on climate while doubling down on oil?" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/25/trans-mountain-pipeline-canada #cdnpoli #TransMountainPipeline #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #duh #FossilFuelCriminals

I just learned a bunch of compelling details about the trans mountain pipeline from this:

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/21/opinion/trans-mountain-pipeline-open-and-its-costing-me-sleep

#canada #climate #environment #alberta #transmountainpipeline

Metro Vancouver gas prices fall, could dip further as Trans Mountain pipeline flows: experts
Petroleum industry analyst Dan McTeague told Global News prices seen earlier this week of up to $2.20.9 appear to be the "high water mark."
#globalnews #Economy #GasPrices #MetroVancouver #TransMountainPipeline
https://globalnews.ca/news/10462731/gas-prices-fall-trans-mountain/