Shaena Lambert

Shaena Lambert is the author of three books of fiction, Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. All three were selected as top books of the year by the Globe and Mail. She lives in Vancouver.

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70-year-old grandmother faces a week in jail for blockading Kinder Morgan tanker terminal

Laurie Embree drove 400 kilometres from 108 Mile House to participate in the protest. She is a mother of four, a grandmother of three.

Opinion

Trans Mountain

By Shaena Lambert in Opinion | June 20th 2018

Got Consent? What part of ‘no’ does Kinder Morgan not understand?

We’re sure that Justin Trudeau would make an amazing, honest and sincere-sounding apology if there was an oil spill in Georgia Strait. A really good sorry, like so many men in the wake of #MeToo. But we want more than that. We want to be listened to now.

Opinion

By Lucy Lambert & Shaena Lambert in Opinion, Energy, Politics, Culture | May 9th 2018

The Warrior Song of Ta’ah Amy George

When the Tsleil Waututh (People of the Inlet) found out in 2012 about Kinder Morgan’s expansion plans (twinning the pipeline, dredging Burrard Inlet, increasing tanker traffic seven-fold to transport toxic bitumen to China), they held a community gathering on their reserve across the inlet from Kinder Morgan’s Westridge facility.

Opinion

Trans Mountain

By Shaena Lambert in Opinion | April 28th 2018

The warriors and the Watch House

The Watch House is something new, both in the Kinder Morgan fight and in protest politics. Its presence is at the very heart of what could become Canada’s Standing Rock. At the same time, it is emerging as a place to reconcile differences, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous gather under its roof.

Opinion

Trans Mountain

By Shaena Lambert in Opinion | March 25th 2018

'Welcome to the wild side, Mum' — A day with the Kinder Morgan pipeline opponents

Saturday marked a new level of resistance in the protests against Kinder Morgan, as twenty eight people from varied walks of life blocked the gates to the Kinder Morgan tank farm facility in Burnaby.

Opinion

By Shaena Lambert in Opinion | March 19th 2018