Killer Whales Pose Newest Threat to Kinder Morgan Oil Pipeline - Bloomberg
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Kinder Morgan Inc. will have to address the fate of one more group before completing its #Trans_Mountain pipeline expansion: killer whales.
Less than a month after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the approval of a plan to almost triple the capacity of Canada’s only oil #pipeline to the Pacific coast, the environmental law group Ecojustice filed a federal court case on behalf of Living Oceans Society and Raincoast Conservation Foundation seeking to block the decision. The government failed to consider the fate of about 80 killer whales that live in the main shipping lane for the crude tankers that will carry Alberta’s oil, Dyna Tuytel, an Ecojustice lawyer, said in a phone interview.
“The ones that we are concerned about are the Southern Resident #killer_whales,” she said. The pipeline adds “seven times more tankers, which contribute to noise and interferes with hunting and communication.”