Trans Mountain pipeline just leaked 190,000 litres of tar sands oil near
sacred burial grounds in BC.

The insurance to the pipeline is expiring in August. Call on Liberty
Mutual to not renew the insurance on this climate destroying project.

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John,

Liberty Mutual is insuring an oil pipeline that’s poisoning the water of
Indigenous people in Canada.

The pipeline is a mega-oil highway, transporting crude oil across Canada.
Just last month, it spilled 190,000 litres of thick tar sands oil near a
sacred Indigenous burial ground.

This is just one of 85 spills from this pipeline in the last 10 years.

But we could stop this climate destroying pipeline by making sure it can’t
get insurance. That’s why we are launching our campaign to call on Liberty
Mutual, Chubb, AIG and other companies to not renew its insurance on Trans
Mountain pipeline when it expires in August.

[ [link removed] ]Call on Liberty Mutual, Chubb and AIG to stop fueling climate chaos and
insuring human rights abuses.

Insurance companies hold the key to stopping this pipeline -- if the
pipeline can’t get corporations to pay for cleaning up its spills, it
can’t operate.

And if this pipeline is expanded, it will lead to climate disaster.

Unfortunately for our planet, right before the COVID-19 crisis hit, the
Canadian courts greenlit the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline – a
reckless project that would increase tanker traffic through the Salish Sea
by seven hundred percent, endangering the already struggling Southern
Resident Orca whale population.

And if you think the global pandemic is stopping the plans on expanding
the Trans Mountain pipeline, think again -- despite social distancing
measures, construction on the new climate destroying Trans Mountain
pipeline has already started. With the start of construction also comes
the instalment of “man camps” which have been linked to violence against
Indigenous women and to the spread of COVID-19 in Native communities.

This is the time to call on the insurance companies to pull out: two big
insurance companies just pulled out of the pipeline and the spill near
Indigenous land that happened last month is still fresh in the minds of
the remaining insurance companies.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition calling on Liberty Mutual, AIG, and Chubb to stop
insuring the Trans Mountain pipeline.

SumOfUs has forced financial institutions to pull out of dangerous
pipelines before. When over 360,000 members like you signed a petition
calling on major banks to pull the plug on the Dakota Access pipeline
during the heart of the Standing Rock protests, the largest bank in Norway
decided to pull funding the day after we brought your names to their
headquarters.

And just last week, the US courts forced Dakota Access pipeline to drain
all its oil and stop operating. Activists were able to stop the Dakota
Access pipeline because we took action over and over. And together, we can
stop the Trans Mountain pipeline too, but only if keep the pressure on.
Please take action now.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Angus, Amelia, Vicky, Luca, Nick, and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Major insurers increase cover for Trans Mountain oil pipeline -
filings, Financial Post, May 12, 2020
[ [link removed] ]Sumas First Nation chief says Trans Mountain spill happened just south
of a cultural and burial ground of great significance, National Observer,
June 14, 2020
[ [link removed] ]Insurance companies drop coverage for Trans Mountain pipeline, City
News, July 6th, 2020

 

 

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