http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/6990/0 en http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/why-activists-must-continue-block-flow-tar-sands-b/34295 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Recent blockings have had great results and needs to be repeated on a rotating affinity-based </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/blockage5_ligne9_7dec2015.jpg" alt="" title="Québec provincial police (SQ) looks into easily accessible valve at direct action activists while waiting for Enbridge representatives to arrive. Photo courtesy of Camp Ligne 9." width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/enbridge_stock_drop7dec2015.jpg" alt="" title="Enbridge stock drops 8% on day of Line 9B blockage and flow stoppage from direct action." width="450" height="581" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/enbridge_pipeline_rupture_0.jpg" alt="" title="Enbridge Pipeline 6B rupture spilled 3.5 million litres of crude in Kalamazoo river. The biggest onshore spill in US history. courtesy Desmog Canada website. Credit: Environmental Defence, Enbridge, EPA." width="450" height="255" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Last Monday, December 7, 2015 three protesters locked themselves to a valve they closed along Enbridge&#39;s Line 9B pipeline as it enters Québec from Ontario. The valve controlling flow of tar sands bitumen was turned off by one of the protestors prior to the lockdown, effectively cutting the flow of up to 100,000 barrels of the world&#39;s dirtiest oil for 10 hours.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/why-activists-must-continue-block-flow-tar-sands-b/34295" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/why-activists-must-continue-block-flow-tar-sands-b/34295#comments David Widgington Direct Action Environment Indigenous Solidarity direct action Enbridge line 9 nopipelines Tar Sands Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:00:00 +0000 widge 34295 at http://dominion.mediacoop.ca