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It IS NOT too late to stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX)! You can help us strike a key blow against this calamitous project – every dollar helps.
WE NEED YOUR HELP with fundraising to cover the costs of legal action to protect species at risk and challenge the injunction that is protecting Trans Mountain from concerned citizens engaging in peaceful action to protect the planet. We recognize that this past year has been financially hard for many people, so if you aren’t in a position to donate, please share this Fundrazr and help us get the word out. Whether you donate or share, your generosity is greatly appreciated, and we’re glad that you’re joining our effort to protect endangered species and set aside TMX’s injunction. We will send a powerful message to the federal government: this pipeline has no place in Canada’s future.
Why now ? The landscape of Canada’s climate change policy has shifted. In November 2020, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) released a report that confirmed what we already know: in a future where Canada meets its target of net zero emissions by 2050, there is no role for the TMX expansion. Also in November 2020, the federal government introduced Bill C-12, an act with the objective of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. One of the first acts of President Biden was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Meanwhile, the Kenney-Trudeau supported project continues to violate agreements in place to protect streams, fish and woodland animals along the route. Government has been very slow to respond so this legal action is needed now.
Why is this different from previous legal challenges
? It gives us a chance to be heard. The legal
challenges to the approval of the TMX extension have been exhausted.
However, the test for an injunction looks at the justification for a
project and the harm that will result. In light of the recent
developments – Canada’s net zero policy, the CER 2020 report, and
the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline –are all developments
since the injunction was imposed.
While these legal challenges alone are unlikely to stop TMX, it will show the Trudeau government that Canadians continue to strongly oppose it, especially in BC and it will contribute to the growing pressure to cancel the project. We are approaching a late summer or fall election and the challenge will help attract more negative press about TMX as we work to make it a key issue that stands in the way of Trudeau's re-election campaign! Highlights:
- We know that TMX will accelerate climate change, and make it impossible for Canada to meet our 2015 Paris climate commitments.
- TMX expansion isn’t necessary. On Nov.24, 2020, the Canada Energy Regulator (formerly NEB) released a new report on the future of Canada’s energy sector showing that if Canada responds to the climate emergency by strengthening our climate policies to cut more greenhouse gas emissions, we would no longer need the TMX expansion. After the plummet in the demand for oil since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that there is a future for Canada that doesn’t include the expansion of the oilsands – Canada just has to commit to it. https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/canada-energy-future/2020/canada-energy-futures-2020.pdf https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/reassessment-need-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-project?fbclid=IwAR3HtK5KsGtBWr6KjAXrUiL5PxZK-sKus6O6yO8A10exEG3mbe3FfAxAbx4
- Kenney-Truedeau's claims about the economic and employment benefits are a fiction that the planet and future generations cannot tolerate. Just more hot air as described in the June 1, 2021 report by earth scientist David Hughes. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/canada%E2%80%99s-energy-sector
- TMX violates Indigenous rights. Canada is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The UN Declaration sets out an explicit requirement to obtain free, prior and informed consent. It affirms the rights of Indigenous peoples to make their own decisions about their lives, territories and futures, and to decide according to their own laws, customs and traditions whether a project should proceed, be modified or be rejected. https://quakerservice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Interpretation-implementation-of-FPIC-statement-Feb-2019.pdf
The Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Expansion (TMX) has no place in Canada’s future – and together we can still stop it!
Thank you for your support!
PPST
About us:
WHO IS "PROTECT THE PLANET STOP TMX"? On Aug. 3, 2020, land & water protectors deployed an aerial camp high in the trees in Burnaby, to prevent TMX from clearing trees scheduled to be cut between Aug.1-Sept.15 along the pipeline route. For the past 10 months, 'Protect the Planet Stop TMX' has continued to be successful in protecting trees and fragile salmon-bearing streams from pipeline construction. https://stoptmx.ca https://www.facebook.com/StopTMX
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