Lloyd’s of London is insuring an oil pipeline that’s
poisoning Indigenous land in Canada.
The Trans Mountain pipeline is a mega-oil highway, transporting
crude oil across Canada. Just last month, it spilled 190,000
of thick tar sands oil near a sacred Indigenous burial
ground.
This is just one of 85 spills from this pipeline in the
last 10 years.
We can’t wait around for another spill to destroy more Indigenous
land -- so the affected communities are demanding insurance
companies drop this dangerous pipeline.
Lloyd’s of London is in the middle of a huge controversy
as its original owners have profited off colonialism and the slave
trade. Its insurance contract on Trans Mountain pipeline is
also going to expire in August. A huge public outcry about its
on-going role in colonialism could force the insurance giant to pull
out and leave this mega-oil project that threatens Indigenous
people’s way of life.
Add
your name to demand Lloyd’s of London stop insuring this
planet-wrecking pipeline.
If this pipeline is expanded, it will also lead to climate
disaster.
Unfortunately for our planet, right before the COVID-19 crisis
hit, the Canadian courts greenlit the expansion of Trans Mountain
pipeline – a reckless project that would increase oil tanker
traffic by seven hundred percent, endangering the already struggling
Orca whale population.
And if you think the global pandemic would stop this pipeline,
think again -- despite social distancing measures, construction on
the climate destroying expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline has
already started. The start of construction also comes the
instalment of “man camps” which have been linked to violence against
Indigenous women and to the spread of COVID-19 in Native
communities.
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. And two of the biggest insurance companies
that insure Trans Mountain have already pulled out because of the
pipeline's effect on the climate.
Earlier this month, after public outcry, Lloyd’s of
London apologized for its role in the slave trade and
colonialism. Yet, those words are empty as Lloyd’s
continues to actively participate in the colonization of Indigenous
people by insuring this pipeline. Lloyd's insurance
contract runs out next month, and now while it's still in the middle
of it PR disaster, is the time to push Lloyd's to uninsure the Trans
Mountain pipeline.
Tell
Lloyd’s to stop insuring 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 last week, the US courts forced 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
keep the pressure on. Please take action now.
