Several protesters including an 11-year-old girl have been taken into custody Sunday at a work site related to a proposed pipeline expansion near Vancouver. The RCMP have arrested dozens of people in the past week as officers enforce a court injunction ordering protesters to clear the way for Kinder Morgan workers. Civil disobedience continued Saturday on Burnaby Mountain, where 16 more protesters have been arrested after crossing the police line as activists rally against a proposed oil pipeline…
…“The new NEB Act is as requested by the oil industry,” Quarmby said. “The process is a sham. There’s no meaningful environmental regulation and there’s no respect for the First Nations peoples. We have a process that does not allow consideration of climate change in the evaluation of a major fossil fuel project at a time when climate change is the biggest problem facing humanity. That’s unethical.”
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Tiffany Crawford – Vancouver Sun – Canadian Press – November 23, 2014.
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