Last Generation Canada responds to injunction from Montreal airport, invites conversation on recent disruptions

Today, supporters of Last Generation Canada released a letter to President and CEO Yves Beauchamp and other  representatives of ADM Aéroports de Montréal inviting them to have a  conversation about the group’s recent disruptions at Montreal’s  Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International Airport. The letter comes after a  recent injunction leveled at the group by ADM, which prohibits Last  Generation Canada from holding any sort of action or protest at the  airport, as well as encouraging others to do so. The complete text of  the letter follows below.

Last week, Last Generation  Canada supporters caused considerable disruption at the airport for  three straight days. On July 24, supporters glued their hands to the  road, blocking access to the departures area. The next day, two  supporters threw washable pink paint at the entrance to the departures  area. On July 26, three supporters glued their hands to the road,  blocking access to the airport’s arrivals area.

The actions are part of Oil Kills, an international uprising in support of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, with ongoing actions in ten countries across North America and Europe. Last week, some 270 flights were canceled in Frankfurt, Germany, and air traffic was grounded, as well as at  Cologne Bonn airport. In Norway, three people cut through chain-link  fences and sat near the runway, stopping flights departing from Oslo  Gardermoen airport.

Last Generation Canada is  demanding that the government sign a legally binding treaty to stop  extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030, as well as supporting  and financing other countries to make a fast, fair and just transition.  They’re also calling on the government to create a permanent national  firefighting agency that employs 50,000 full-time firefighters and a  citizens’ assembly with legally binding power to decide how to tackle  the climate and ecological crisis.

In the letter, Last Generation  Canada invites airport reps to meet to discuss the need for civil  resistance and the rationale behind the group’s actions.

“In normal times, such  disruptions would be wholly unacceptable. However, we are facing  extraordinary circumstances. Canada has been engulfed by devastating  wildfires, with entire regions evacuated and burned down. Scientists  across the world have been calling for an end to fossil fuels, and are  collectively panicking due to government inaction on a crisis they warn  will ‘kill 1 billion people by the end of the century.’” – Last  Generation Canada

Last week’s disruption at the  airport happened alongside a massive wildfire that devastated Jasper and  continues to burn amidst hot, dry conditions. Many other communities in  Alberta and British Columbia remain at risk. It also followed news that  last Sunday and Monday were the hottest days ever recorded. Experts say  continuing to pump fossil fuels into the atmosphere will ensure extreme  unnatural weather events like these will increase in severity and  frequency.

It’s clear – governments and  fossil fuel companies are waging war on humanity. Continuing to extract  and burn oil, gas and coal will kill millions of innocent people and  destroy whole nations. We have to stop them. Join the international  uprising taking nonviolent collective action to defend humanity. We  refuse to die for fossil fuels and we refuse to stand by while millions  are murdered. Our governments must sign a Fossil Fuel Treaty. We ask  everyone to join us in the resistance. We have a plan. Are you in? Sign up for an action or find our donate link here.