Interactions between Valero, Montreal police, and Greenpeace.

Greenpeace Canada climbing activists occupy the pipes used to load tar sands oil onto tankers in the Port of Montreal and hang a banner saying: “Stop Pipelines: Protect Our Water and Climate”. Other activists lock themselves to the front gate, and kayakers join the protest later in the day to highlight the risk of an oil spill in the St. Lawrence River. The action follows the federal approval of the Kinder Morgan and Line 3 pipelines and is intended to send a message of pan-Canadian opposition to new pipelines to the December 8-9 First Ministers’ meeting on climate change.