Posted on 03/19/2022 8:17:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Hollywood celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Jane Fonda are protesting a Canadian natural gas pipeline that they claim represents a threat to the climate and indigenous rights.
Their demand to defund the pipeline comes as energy prices are soaring around the world, putting a squeeze on working class families and sending a dire ripple effect throughout the global economy. The pipeline at the center of the fight is the Coastal GasLink, which transports natural gas across the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia to the Pacific coast.
Celebrities are putting pressure on LA-based City National Bank, citing the bank’s parent company, the Royal Bank of Canada, a major investor in the pipeline.
“Our ‘bank to the stars’ is aiding projects that violate Indigenous rights,” they said in a letter to City National and RBC. “We refuse to allow our industry’s bank of choice to be unethical, to accelerate the climate crisis, to facilitate the abuse the rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
They are claiming the pipeline violates the territory and waters of the Wet’suwet’en Peoples.
Among the other Hollywood signatories are Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Ben Stiller, David Fincher, Ava DuVernay, and Amy Schumer.
Fossil fuel pipelines have become a favorite target of left-wing celebrity activists. Last year, they successfully pressured President Biden to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, effectively killing thousands of jobs with the stroke of a pen.
They are also demanding the killing of the Dakota Access and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement.
Pipelines are among the most efficient and cost-effective way of transporting fossil fuels. Without pipelines, oil and natural gas would have to be transported on trucks, which makes them more expensive to consumers.
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Morons
Maybe Leonardo DiCaprio should put in a wind farm on his private island.
Jane is in her 80s and only has a few years left on this earth that she hates so much. Too bad she won’t enjoy her final years. Just wait until she sees what is in store for her next...
Electric and gas companies should immediately cut service to these people’s mansions in California.
No skin off their wallets.
But they approve of mercury coated solar panels what could go wrong after all their made in China.
Can we say kickbacks $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Don’t forget usage in lightbulbs. And yet banned mercury thermometers and can’t find decent thermometer to check for fever anymore. Their rules for anything and everything have absolutely no basis in truth or logic and are entirely self-serving. I am sick to death of these SOB’s
At 83?? Really? Why do I need a job, I’m still working.
Welcome to the club
Don’t go to their movies or performances.
They are democrat stooges ,who HATE AMERICA.
Communists.
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