Pipeline protests planned in Centretown, across Canada
Posted Jun 4, 2018 10:30:00 AM.
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The federal government's decision to buy Kinder Morgan Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline is the focus of 100 protests planned today across the country.
Demonstrations will target the local constituency offices of the prime minister, Ottawa Centre MP and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, as well as more than 90 other MPs.
“Folks are going to be wearing red to symbolize our outrage on the topic of this pipeline and the buyout of it,” said Jaqueline Lee-Tam, the organizer of one of the protests planned in Vancouver.
The federal government announced last week that it would spend $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and all of Kinder Morgan Canada's core assets, in order to ensure the pipeline expansion project goes ahead by this summer.
A demonstration outside McKenna's Catherine Street constituency office in Centretown scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., as protesters demand the federal government cancel its plans to buy the pipeline with taxpayers' money.
