A broad-based grassroots citizens’ mobilization of students, First Nations and environmental activists made their way through Ladner Friday afternoon in a walk against tar sands, Kinder Morgan and fossil fuel expansion.
The Walk 4 the Salish Sea left Victoria Thursday for a four-day walk, which ended Sunday at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaaby for a day of protest to the recent federal government approval for the Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline.
After arriving at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal from Victoria, the group walked along Highway 17 onto Salish Sea Drive and then onto Arthur Drive. The group completed Friday’s portion of the walk at the Ladner United Church where they were offered a meal and a place to stay Friday evening before they began the journey into Richmond and Vancouver Saturday.
The Walk 4 the Salish Sea group is calling for an immediate transition to a post-carbon economy in which the rights and sovereignty of indigenous communities are properly respected.
“We support every effort of indigenous communities to make sure this pipeline expansion and the proposed 40 per cent tar sands expansion fueling this project never happens,” said lead Walk organizer Bobby Arbess in a media release.
“Now that both levels of government have again betrayed First Nations and undermined Canada’s commitments in Paris, people are preparing to ramp up the campaign against this project and to peacefully protect the coast and prevent runaway climate change.”
