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Canada: PM Trudeau Approves 2 Major Tar Sands Pipelines

HeadlineNov 30, 2016

In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has approved two major pipelines: Kinder Morgan’s $5 billion Trans Mountain pipeline and the $7.5 billion Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The Trans Mountain pipeline would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands to a port in Vancouver. The Enbridge Line 3 pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Alberta across the U.S.-Canadian border to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. Both pipelines face massive resistance from Canadian First Nations, who held a ceremony Tuesday in which more First Nations signed on to a treaty declaring they will fight all new tar sands infrastructure. One hundred twelve Canadian First Nations and some U.S. Native American tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and the White Earth Nation in Minnesota, have now signed the continent-wide “Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion.”

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