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Activists protest recent TMX agreement at Burnaby City Hall

By: Olive Visser, Peak Associate Content warning: brief mention of violence against an Indigenous person. On January 28, climate activists and community members gathered at Burnaby City Hall to oppose the city’s recent community contribution agreement with Trans Mountain Corporation. The agreement involves an expenditure of $20.1 million from Trans Mountain to support the development of “emergency response and safety planning” for the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project (TMX). It also prevents the city and Trans Mountain from speaking negatively about each other. The federal government purchased the Trans Mountain expansion project in 2018. Many have criticized its parallels to…

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