{"id":311,"date":"2013-10-19T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/?p=311"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:54:54","slug":"english-protests-in-toronto-shut-down-the-neb-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/2013\/10\/19\/english-protests-in-toronto-shut-down-the-neb-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Toronto shut down the NEB hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/line-9-pipeline-hearing-postponed-after-protests-1.2126699\">CBC<\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_11_0_1_1455028609394_30\">A string of heated protests in Toronto\u00a0have led the National Energy Board to postpone hearings into\u00a0proposed changes to\u00a0a key\u00a0oil\u00a0pipeline running from Sarnia, Ont., to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Energy giant Enbridge was scheduled to defend its plan to reverse the flow of a portion of its Line 9 pipeline at an NEB\u00a0hearing in Toronto on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0after protesters stormed the proceedings at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Friday,\u00a0\u00a0the NEB issued a news release stating the hearings would be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The end of today\u2019s hearing raised concerns with\u00a0respect to the security of participants,&#8221; NEB secretary Sheri Young wrote in the Friday statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More media coverage :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/10\/18\/enbridge_pipeline_protesters_converge_on_line_9b_hearings.html\">Toronto Star &#8211; Enbridge pipeline: Protesters converge on Line 9B hearings<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nEventually security escorted demonstrators, a few at a time, into the hearing room where Amanda Lickers, representing Rising Tide Toronto, delivered an hours-long presentation to the three-member panel calling for it to reject Enbridge\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The room erupted from three days of restrained presentations into singing, drumming, shouting, chanting and waving flags that read things like, \u201cWe can\u2019t drink money,\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t frack with mother nature.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via CBC : A string of heated protests in Toronto\u00a0have led the National Energy Board to postpone hearings into\u00a0proposed changes to\u00a0a key\u00a0oil\u00a0pipeline running from Sarnia, Ont., to Montreal. Energy giant Enbridge was scheduled to defend its plan to reverse the flow of a portion of its Line 9 pipeline at an NEB\u00a0hearing in Toronto on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}