An oil spill from a ship carrying oil from the Trans Mountain Pipeline would do lasting damage to ocean life, including species we want to preserve as well as species we eat.

However, that local calamity would be just a footnote compared to the disaster that will be caused when the oil does not spill. We need to leave 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, and since tar sands oil has a particularly high ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to energy delivered, the tar sands oil should be first.

Canadian indigenous peoples are determined to block all new pipelines for export of tar sands oil.