On the heels of a move by the B.C. government that delayed construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and resulted in a small trade war with Alberta — more than 5,000 placard-waving activists gathered Saturday in Burnaby, B.C., to voice their discontent over the federally approved project.
In downtown Vancouver, a couple hundred more held their own pro-pipeline rally.
But what fuels a mass gathering like Saturday’s — and what gets people so riled up about bitumen transport, anyway?
UBC sociology professor David Tindall, an
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