Port of Vancouver, WA: Activists Blockade Shipment of Tar Sands Pipeline
Business at the Port of Vancouver Disrupted to Stop Import of Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) Infrastructure
Vancouver, WA — Community members from Oregon and
Washington have shut down part of the Port of Vancouver, WA to block a
shipment of pipeline that is destined for the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Expansion (TMX) project in Canada that would run from Edmonton to
Vancouver, B.C. This latest action is the third in a series of actions
targeting the Port of Vancouver, WA for its role in transporting
dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure. In early September, activists broke the news that pipe for the TMX project’s construction is being imported by ship to the Port of Vancouver, WA and then blockaded a rail line at the Port to prevent the pipe from being transported to British Columbia.