Tag: oil pipeline

As environmental advocates rally against the premature operation of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, concerns mount over safety violations and the impact on vulnerable ecosystems.

"Pipelines also often cross our nation's wetlands—a risk that could be greatly magnified if the Supreme Court strips away their federal protections."

"Guaranteeing another $8.8 billion to complete the project will simply be throwing good money after bad," says a new analysis, "for a total taxpayer loss of $26.1 billion."

One campaigner called on Canada's government to instead "put all of our energy and political will into a just transition that leaves fossil fuels in the ground and supports people, communities, and workers."

“In the context of our climate emergency, when Indigenous peoples stand against pipelines, we are not only standing up to protect our land rights, we are also standing up for everyone on the planet and future generations that come after us.”

“We need to end offshore drilling, not bring it back to life with another dirty oil pipeline.”

"The annual and growing threat is not worth risking the Great Lakes, nor your reputation as a leader who takes the protection of our public trust resources seriously."

"They shouldn't be prosecuted; they should be praised. They're trying to stop the destruction of the human race."

"We were very fortunate in the fact that there's a natural containment the oil resides."

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