Trudeau: Shut Down the TMX Pipeline Now!
People & Planet Before Pipelines & Profit!
BANNER DROP & OUTREACH ACTION
Wednesday, July 17
5pm
Meet at 22nd Street Skytrain Station in New Westminster
For more info:
604-518-7361 or climateconvergence604@gmail.com
More than ever before we must fight back. Our fight against TMX is not over, we must unite and raise our voices loud and clear: Trudeau, shut down the TMX pipeline now!
For the past two months, oil tankers carrying toxic bitumen (an especially flammable and toxic type of oil) from the TMX pipeline have been leaving from Westridge Terminal in Burnaby. TMX is a climate disaster already, and the beginning of oil shipments is a ticking time bomb for further climate destruction.
The Trudeau Liberal government bought the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the expansion project in 2018. At that time, TMX had a price tag of $4.5 billion and a completion date of the end of 2019. The final price tag for TMX, which is being funded by taxpayers in Canada, is more than 500% over-budget at $34 billion. This is huge and unjust burden on tax-payers in Canada, and any potential future Indigenous owners.
TMX in operation means:
- Triple the amount of bitumen (a low-grade crude oil) running though crucial salmon and wildlife habitats, as well as precious forest and farmland
- Increased risks of catastrophic oil spills and devastating fires, especially at the Sumas and Burnaby Mountain tank farms
- Seven times the number of oil tankers in Burrard inlet, further threatening Salish Sea life, including the already endangered southern resident Orcas
Stop TMX!
We demand People & Planet Before Pipelines & Profit!
System Change, Not Climate Change!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Qayqayt, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.