Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner calling for the end of tar sands development on one of Kinder Morgan’s storage tanks last week. Photograph by: Mike Wakefield, North Shore News
Douglas Ross, of Simon Fraser’s political science department, said the ease with which Greenpeace activists occupied the oil terminal last Wednesday illustrates the vulnerability of Canadian industrial sites.
On Wednesday, Oct. 16, Greenpeace succeeded in sending in a team of 16 activists to chain themselves to the Westridge Marine Terminal’s front gates and pumping equipment without any interference from facility security.
As a result of the incident, Kinder Morgan has launched a review of its security measures, which should be complete in a couple of weeks.