A protest was held on Thursday for six hours at the Port of Vancouver in Washington State by community members trying to block a rail line that is transporting pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
But there were no delays to Trans Mountain's operations as a result of the demonstration yesterday, the company said, as the scheduled rail delivery had already left before the demonstrators arrived.
“Trans Mountain poses a grave threat, not only to communities throughout the Salish Sea and interior Canada," said activist Nick Haas, in a news release, "but to the very stability of our global climate. We’re taking action today to keep tar sands in the ground.”
The protest, organized by Portland Rising Tide and Mosquito Fleet, included concerned Oregonians and Washingtonians.
“We are standing in solidarity with the Indigenous tribes whose unceded territory is directly threatened by this pipeline route. We refuse to stand idly by and watch this machinery of destruction roll through our community unchallenged,” said activist Madeline Cowen.
