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.

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.

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:

Major insurers increase cover for Trans Mountain oil pipeline - filings, Financial Post, May 12, 2020
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
Insurance companies drop coverage for Trans Mountain pipeline, City News, July 6th, 2020

 
 

 

 


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