Activists blocked the gates to an Enbridge plant Tuesday morning to protest a controversial tar sands pipeline project.
The action targets the company’s plan to reverse the flow of its Line 9 pipeline from North Westover, Ont., to Montreal, allowing the eastward flow of crude from the Alberta tar sands and U.S. Bakken shale.
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According to reporting by the Montreal Gazette, three protesters locked themselves to the refinery’s gates, while a fourth scaled a tripod. The small citizen group was ultimately arrested and charged with mischief.
Explaining why they took the direct action, Alyssa Symons-Bélanger, one of the four activists at the scene, said in a press statement: “We want to send a clear message to the oil companies and to the Harper and Couillard governments: the residents of Quebec are opposed to the transportation of the tar sands and are calling for an immediate halt to their extraction.”
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