Beating plastic oil drums and shouting slogans, about 20 protesters gathered outside TD Bank’s annual general meeting in Toronto on Thursday to denounce the bank’s involvement with Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project.
Meanwhile, inside the meeting, Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon reiterated his vow to shareholders to block the project with a co-ordinated campaign of civil disobedience.
“I said don’t be naive. If you think that you’re going to invest in these pipelines and you won’t see repercussions, you’re wrong,” Simon said.
“We saw what happened with the Dakota Access pipeline and the human rights and treaty abuses of the Sioux. You won’t be able to do that here,” he said.
In February, Reuters reported that Kinder Morgan had hired TD Bank as an adviser to help drum up financing for the controversial project, which won federal government approval in December.
JESSE WINTERS – Toronto Star – March 30, 2017.
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