The AMT Train from Candiac to Mtl is cancelled this morning as First Nation Mohawk protesters rallied again today in support of Standing Rock. Buses are in place at the south shore train stations to take commuters to Montreal.
The protesters are opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline. Many Non Natives across North America also share in their effort and support.
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline. The company projects that it would transport approximately 470,000 barrels per day ...with a capacity as high as 570,000 barrels per day or more.
The pipeline is being planned by Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of the Dallas, Texas corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Planned to begin in the Bakken oil fields in Northwest North Dakota and to travel in a more or less straight line south-east, through South Dakota and Iowa, and end at the oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. The pipeline is due for final delivery on January 1, 2017.
Concerns are that the pipeline carrying this crude oil is a threat to sacred land, and to the waters of the Missouri River which is the main water supply for the nearby Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation.
In August 2016, ReZpectOurWater, a group organized on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, brought a petition to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. and the tribe sued for an injunction. A protest at the pipeline site in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has drawn international attention in response to the thousands of people who are protesting the pipeline construction and how they have been treated by local and state authorities.
Sources: /daplpipelinefacts.com/CBC.ca/Wikipedia.