VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Environmentalists are claiming they have no idea what the Province’s NDP government is going to say at its Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project announcement later this morning.

 

That announcement is scheduled for 10:30 am.

 

There have been questions for months about what legal action the NDP could take to shut the project down.

 

The Alberta NDP has even challenged John Horgan’s plans to stop the project.

 

Joe Foy with Canada Wilderness sees it another way.

 

“When people feel really strong about an issue, they will stand up and offer themselves for arrest. We saw that happen at Burnaby Mountain in 1993, we saw that for virtually the whole summer (of 1993) in Clayoquot Sound.”

 

Details on today’s announcement by Attorney General David Eby and Environment Minister George Heyman later this morning are scarce, but Christianne Wilhelmson, executive director of the Georgia Strait Alliance has made her thoughts clear.

 

“Our hope is that the provincial government will be laying out what tools in the toolkit they plan to use to stop a project that British Columbians clearly do not want. We are a bit excited. We have our fingers crossed.”

 

Premier John Horgan promised on the campaign trail to use “every tool in the toolbox” to stop the project but has since softened his language.