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Trans Mountain Expansion project

"Water is Life"

In Canada, a pipeline environmental engineer protests her former company’s tar sands plan

Environment

Romilly Cavanaugh once worked as an environmental pipeline engineer for Trans Mountain, a unit of Kinder Morgan that’s now trying to expand a Canadian tar sands oil pipeline. But in March she joined 200 protestors trying to block pipeline construction. She now awaits trial for criminal contempt of court.

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