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Community forum builds growing opposition to tar sands pipelines in Quebec
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Nessa Ghassemi
514 951 5683
climatejusticemtl@gmail.com
What: Grassroots group Climate Justice Montreal has organized a day of workshops, a panel discussion, and strategizing to build resistance to the proposed Enbridge Line 9 reversal project that would ship tar sands crude through Ontario, Quebec, and New England.
Who: Hundreds of people, including activists from the Quebec student movement and the Idle No More movement, are expected to attend to hear from front-line activists from Indigenous communities and rural Quebec who have been fighting similar destructive projects for years. Keynote speakers include:
- Vanessa Gray, from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and organizer with Idle No More, who is organizing to stop Line 9 near Sarnia
- Professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit, and researcher with l’Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques, Eric Martin
- From the Pasqua First Nation, organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Ruckus Society, Heather Milton-Lightening
- Laurent Busseau, member of the Comité pour l’Environnement de Dunham, which successfully mobilized to stop the construction of a tar sands pumping station near the Quebec-Vermont border
When: January 19th, from 10:00-18:00
Where: Concordia University, Hall Building (7th floor), 1455 De Maisonneuve West
More information and full programming found here:
justiceclimatiquemontreal.wordpress.com
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