Anti-Trans Mountain activists took their protest south of the border on Sunday as they tried to stop a Kinder Morgan tanker in the Seattle Harbour.
According to a release from Protect the Inlet, an anti-pipeline group, 30 kayakers are out in Seattle waters trying to stop the tanker from docking at Kinder Morgan鈥檚 terminal.
The kayakers belong to the Mosquito Fleet, a group of water-based direct action fleets that try to physically block fossil fuel-related activity.
鈥淲e refuse to let Kinder Morgan turn our Salish Sea into a fossil fuel super-highway. Their operations are already unacceptably dangerous. The last thing we need is to make matters 700 per cent worse,鈥� said Mosquito Fleet鈥檚 Zara Greene.
鈥淪uch a massive increase in oil tanker traffic would not only jeopardize communities in B.C., but in Washington as well.鈥�
Sunday鈥檚 action comes after and ahead of a week of planned pipeline protests in Metro Vancouver.
