You did it! Over 100,000 SumOfUs members like you called
on insurance companies to stop fuelling climate chaos and
underwriting destructive projects like the Trans Mountain
pipeline. And Zurich, Trans Mountain’s biggest insurer,
listened!
The Trans Mountain pipeline operators say there’s still plenty of
insurers, after Zurich just cut ties. But we know who their new
biggest insurer is: Chubb.
Email
Chubb executives and call on them to stop insuring the dangerous
Trans Mountain pipeline.
Unfortunately for our planet, right before the COVID-19 crisis
hit, the Canadian courts greenlit the Trans Mountain
pipeline – a reckless project that would increase tanker traffic
through the Salish Sea by seven hundred percent, endangering the
already struggling resident Orca whale population.
The government is adamant about pushing this disastrous project
though which is why insurance companies hold the key to stopping
this pipeline. If the pipeline can’t get corporations to pay for
cleaning up its spills, it can’t operate.
Days before we were going to deliver your massive
petition to the headquarters of Zurich, the company agreed to not
renew insurance for this climate bomb.
So now, with less than a month before the insurance expires, we
have to push the remaining insurers to follow suit and end the Trans
Mountain pipeline once and for all.
Email
the executives at Chubb insurance today to stop the Trans Mountain
pipeline.
SumOfUs has forced financial institutions to pull out of
dangerous pipelines before. When over 360,000 members like
you signed a petition calling on major banks to pull the plug on the
Dakota Access pipeline during the heart of the Standing Rock
protests, the largest bank in Norway decided to pull funding the day
after we brought your names to their headquarters.
And just two weeks ago, the US courts forced the Dakota
Access pipeline to drain all its oil and stop operating.
Activists were able to stop the Dakota Access pipeline because we
took action over and over. And together, we can stop the Trans
Mountain pipeline too, but only if we keep the pressure on. Please
take action now.
