One of Romilly Cavanaugh’s first jobs was an environmental engineering position at the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which carries crude and refined oil across western Canada. Elsewhere, more than 60 actions unfolded across Canada in a show of solidarity with the protests. Spearheaded by Texas-based Kinder Morgan, the C$7.4bn project proposes expanding an existing pipeline to lay nearly 1,000km of new pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver’s coastline. After Kinder Morgan launched preparatory work this month in Burnaby, near Vancouver, indigenous leaders called on people to raise their voices. Cavanaugh – who worked at Trans Mountain from 1991 to 1996 – was surprised to find herself in the spotlight.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2018 09:56 UTC