Trans Mountain
Art exhibition protests Canada’s oil industry on campus
December 19, 2025By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On November 6, the “Banks Off Campus Day of Action” art exhibition was held at the Student Union Building social stage to showcase George Rammell’s art. Rammell is a Gambier Island-based artist whose work focuses on climate activism and collaboration with Indigenous artists. The exhibit centred resistance to new fossil fuel projects in BC, and was organized by SFU350, Change Course, and Simon Fraser Public Interest Group. On Instagram, the organizers wrote that the event comes amid growing enthusiasm for fossil fuel projects in the country, with major Canadian banks having increased their investments in…
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SFU350 calls on SFU to divest from RBC
November 14, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer A coalition between SFU350, Climate Justice UBC Vancouver, and independent UBC Okanagan students has rallied to cease RBC’s presence on campus. They are collaborating with Change Course, a movement aiming to end mass financing of…
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Permanent firehall on SFU Burnaby Campus to open in 2024
September 21, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer As climate change fuels the wildfires that are spreading rapidly across the Lower Mainland, residents have been increasingly calling for proper preparedness and to address these risks in our communities. Burnaby Fire Department chief, Chris…
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World listening day explores nature and human activity
August 3, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer On July 18, World Listening Day was observed in memory of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who helped found the Acoustic Ecology movement. This movement examines the relationship between humans and their environment. For example,…
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SFU professor marks one year of civil disobedience against TMX pipeline expansion
September 13, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On August 3, 2020, SFU health sciences professor Tim Takaro and the Protect the Planet Stop TMX (PPST) coalition occupied the forest canopy of Lost Creek, in the Brunette River Conservation Area. They plan to…
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The Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline
May 19, 2021by Marco Ovies, Features Editor What is the Trans Mountain Expansion Project? The Trans Mountain Pipeline is a pipeline built in 1953 that transports crude oil, semi-refined, and refined products from Alberta to BC. It is the one of the…
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#NotGoingBack Climate Strike
October 14, 2020By Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate Sustainabiliteens, Climate Strike Canada, and Our Time planned four Metro Vancouver #NotGoingBack climate strikes on September 25. This initiative supported Friday for Future’s Global Day of Climate Action. In response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s…
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Trans Mountain pipeline construction continues during COVID-19 pandemic
July 14, 2020Written by: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) is continuing in BC and Alberta during the COVID-19 pandemic. In BC, construction is currently underway in Kamloops and on Burnaby Mountain at the Burnaby and…
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What’d I Miss?: The Kinder Morgan Pipeline
June 28, 2018By: Simran Randhawa and Gabrielle McLaren 1951 On December 13, after three days of deliberation, the Board of Transportation Commissioners approved the application for a pipeline to be built, connecting Burnaby to Edmonton. It was established because of the discovery…
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Local residents stage anti-Kinder Morgan protest at public safety office
October 24, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Local residents rallied against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tank farm yesterday at the base of Burnaby Mountain in front of a local branch of the federal public safety office. The protest called a…
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