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Hollywood Celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, Oppose Canadian Natural Gas Pipeline as Energy Prices Soar
breitbart ^ | 19 Mar 2022 | DAVID NG

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; dicaprio; didyousearch; fonda; pipeline
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Biden administration secretary of energy Jennifer Granholm has even admitted that the best way to transport fuel across parts of the country is through pipelines.
1 posted on 03/19/2022 8:17:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
But they approve of turning the entire world into solar and wind farms.


2 posted on 03/19/2022 8:20:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: MarvinStinson

These people are all wealthy - ‘limousine liberals’. They have no idea how all of this ‘green energy’ stuff will impact people in poverty or of modest means.

And they don’t care what happens to REAL people, as long as they can posture like this and make themselves feel good and superior.


3 posted on 03/19/2022 8:27:29 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Surprised not to see Meathead on this list of impressive thought leaders.


4 posted on 03/19/2022 8:31:15 PM PDT by prov1813man
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I might suggest they gather their like minded friends and ply their trade in the Urkraine! And don’t let the door slap them on the butt on their way out.


5 posted on 03/19/2022 8:31:41 PM PDT by ImpBill (America! Has anybody seen her lately?)
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Jane Fonda ????? Energy experts and economists? Its still the economy stupids.No one cares about their opinions, and what worries do they have? They go to the most expensive places to eat, $$$$ is no problem for them. They don’t have any worries the average working person has. Sure they have a high end electric vehicle, but what about the custom Hummer type vehicle they keep hidden in their garage. Oh they are interested in us and not their investment portfolios? Sure!


6 posted on 03/19/2022 8:33:24 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Well, ain’t they just special?


7 posted on 03/19/2022 8:33:37 PM PDT by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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….while the hypocritical bastards go all over the world in their private jets.


8 posted on 03/19/2022 8:34:54 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: MarvinStinson

As if $10/gal gas affects these multi-millionaires.


9 posted on 03/19/2022 8:38:02 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The view from the graves of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the wonderful Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA used to be stunningly beautiful. Now that view is marred by miles and miles of those awful solar farms. Really disgusting…

No bird-killing windmills there, though. Yet.

10 posted on 03/19/2022 8:38:40 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Certainly you can get a multi-million dollar job by sleeping with someone.


11 posted on 03/19/2022 8:39:17 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Tupelo

Everybody south of the Canadian border knows what “ain’t ____ just special” means coming from a southerner. 🙂

It always makes me smile.


12 posted on 03/19/2022 8:43:29 PM PDT by Equine1952
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As if $10/gal gas affects these multi-millionaires.

Colbert said he’d even pay $15/gal because he drives a Tesla. That’s as funny as it gets.

13 posted on 03/19/2022 8:45:25 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: MarvinStinson

Are these people traders, paid for by the Chinese, maybe their Chinese employers?


14 posted on 03/19/2022 8:47:01 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Explain to me why I should give a f*ck what Hollywood celebrities think about anything.


15 posted on 03/19/2022 8:55:40 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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Hollywood celebrities continue to give Putin smd the Middle East theocracies the sea in energy prices


16 posted on 03/19/2022 9:14:05 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: nutmeg

Those windmills really suck. We have a shitload of them here in western Pa. Just about every high ridge at least around where I live is ruined as far as I’m concerned. Seems like a lot of the time only some of them are turning and the other ones aren’t.


17 posted on 03/19/2022 9:42:18 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Clarancebeaks

Same here in Maine.

Windmills and solar farms are subsidized by our tax money are higher electricity prices.

I would rip them all down if I could. A blight on the land.

Give me oil, gasoline, natural gas, coal and nuclear power any day of the week.

We own a chunk of undeveloped acreage here in Maine and we get letters from solar schmuck companies in Boston, New York City and San Francisco all the time. The letters are ignored.


18 posted on 03/19/2022 9:58:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Greenie weenie ecofreaks in Europe and the USA are responsible for this war.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

An egotist, a psychopath, and a traitor! The Trifecta of all that is wrong with the American Left.


19 posted on 03/19/2022 9:59:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MarvinStinson

If Jane Fonda’s against it, I’m for it.


20 posted on 03/19/2022 10:43:56 PM PDT by murron
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