Hollywood celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Jane Fonda are protesting a Canadian natural gas pipeline that they claim represents a threat to the climate and indigenous rights. [bold, links added]
Their demand to defund the pipeline comes as energy prices are soaring around the world, putting a squeeze on working-class families and sending a dire ripple effect throughout the global economy.
The pipeline at the center of the fight is the Coastal GasLink, which transports natural gas across the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia to the Pacific coast.
Celebrities are putting pressure on Los Angeles-based City National Bank, citing the bank’s parent company, the Royal Bank of Canada, which is a major investor in the pipeline.
“Our ‘bank to the stars’ is aiding projects that violate Indigenous rights,” they said in an open letter to City National and RBC.
“We refuse to allow our industry’s bank of choice to be unethical at any level, to accelerate the climate crisis, or to facilitate the abuse the rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
They are claiming the pipeline violates the territory and waters of the Wet’suwet’en Peoples.
Thank you to everyone who signed this. The time to defund @CoastalGasLink is now. @RBC must withdraw from the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline now and stop financing fossil fuels. @CityNational Bank must protect its clients and honor their values. https://t.co/JVrCia9bhH
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) March 17, 2022
Among the other Hollywood signatories are Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Ben Stiller, David Fincher, Ava DuVernay, and Amy Schumer.
Fossil fuel pipelines have become a favorite target of left-wing celebrity activists.
Last year, they successfully pressured President Joe Biden to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, effectively killing thousands of jobs with the stroke of a pen.
They are also demanding the killing of the Dakota Access and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement.
Pipelines are among the most efficient and cost-effective ways of transporting fossil fuels. Without pipelines, oil and natural gas would have to be transported on trucks, which makes them more expensive to consumers.
Biden administration Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has even admitted that the best way to transport fuel across parts of the country is through pipelines.
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And why should ANYONE care about what these folks think? I would not take their advice on cleaning out my garage let alone their opinion on ANY energy related matter…
What irks me the most is that they even get any press. Nice to make your fortune off the everyday tax payer and then turn around and deny them the right to a decent living on our assets. Also, the Elected Chiefs voted for the pipeline and the jobs and wealth it would create.
Who bothers to continue to watch and listen to these Liberal Hollywood Hypocrites anymore I wonder how the heat their own homes and how do they cook their food? now by waving wand and not by lighting a fire, just more Hollywood idiots to add to our Boycott list
Remarkable how these “celebs” have made their hugely wealthy lifestyles out of an industry which has always so depended on the energy methods they condemn> How do they suppose the cameras are made, or the spotlights? or the yachts? How as the almost life size Titanic made for the movie which brought di Caprio such fame and wealth? They do not have to worry about the ever rising bills to heat their homes and to eat. But then can actors ever stop acting?
Hollywood pinhead Robert Redford has claiming fossil fuels are cooking the Earth even after having done ads for United Airlines(Its time to Fly)opposes drilling and still has vast acres from his Sundance Ranch sold to developers
Ref the pic. Jane Fonda must have spent a fortune and botox and reconstructive surgery!