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Car Concerts Offer Choirs A Way To Rehearse And Perform During The Pandemic

By NPR News January 11, 2021

Tim Shantz conducts Luminous Voices' first car concert on Oct. 4, 2020. Kenton Smith

For members of Luminous Voices, a professional choir ensemble in Alberta, Canada, rehearsing and performing safely during the pandemic has meant getting into their cars, driving to an empty parking lot and singing with each other's voices broadcast through their car radios.Read More

Trans-Mountain Pipeline Protesters Object To British Columbia-Washington Expansion

By Emily Schwing May 9, 2018

Protesters blocked a marine gate at Kinder Morgan's Westridge Terminal in Burnaby, B.C., on Wednesday. CREDIT: COAST PROTECTORS - TINYURL.COM/Y9GAO34Y

Demonstrators took to land and sea in British Columbia Wednesday as energy giant Kinder Morgan hosted shareholders at an annual meeting in Texas. In Houston, tribal leaders voiced their opposition to the company’s proposed expansion of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline—a project that could increase the amount of crude oil shipped to Washington state.Read More

Annual Meeting Of Energy Giant Stockholders Draws Northwest Tribal Opposition

By Emily Schwing May 8, 2018

Tribal leaders from Canada are on their way to Texas to warn Kinder Morgan stockholders against expanding its controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline project. The pipeline brings Canadian oil to Washington state.   Read More

Canadian Oil Going By Rail Through Washington To Portland Before Shipping To Asia

By Tony Schick March 19, 2018

Oil by rail tanker car CREDIT: TONY SCHICK/OPB

Canadian oil has found a new route to Asia: It’s moving by rail through Washington to a shipping terminal in Portland. In the long run, Canada wants to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline to move oil from the Alberta tar sands west to British Columbia — and from there onto ships that would travel through the Salish Sea and then to Asia.Read More