Meet the Teens Suing Canada to Stop a Pipeline | The Tyee
Rebecca Wolf Gage, 13, isn’t one to sit back and watch things happen. When she was 12, she started the first climate strike in Victoria, with her 10-year-old brother, and a few months ago she helped launch a lawsuit against the Canadian government.
She is one of four Canadian teenagers, aged 13 to 18, taking the federal government to court on the grounds that buying the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project violates their charter rights and the rights of other young Canadians by continuing to contribute to the climate crisis.
“[When they bought TMX] it seemed like the government didn’t care about our future,” said Wolf Gage, “because they didn’t want to open their eyes to what the pipeline’s going to do to future generations and even generations now.”