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  1. Shifting the Narrative
  2. 16 Days of Activism
  3. Meet Tinda Sebe-Sikaneta, Canada

Meet Tinda Sebe-Sikaneta, Canada

Tinda is a community organizer advocating to stop Energy East, a proposed TransCanada pipeline that would pass through Ottawa, Canada.

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Meet Tinda Sebe-Sikaneta, Canada

Tinda lives in Stittsville, Ontario, a rapidly expanding suburb of west Ottawa, with her husband and three young boys. A former environmental policy professional, Tinda is attuned to the importance of protecting the environment for future generations. When she learned that TransCanada, a major North American energy company, was planning to convert her community’s existing natural gas pipeline to one that would carry bitumen from the Alberta tar sands, she knew she must intervene. The Alberta tar sands, Canada’s largest industrial project to date, are the fastest-growing single source of greenhouse gas emission in Canada.

Tinda began to research the issue and uncovered that the National Energy Board of Canada is currently investigating TransCanada’s pipeline construction practices. Digging deeper, she found that Energy East is a hasty back up plan TransCanada generated following the stagnation of plans to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline through the United States. This, alongside recent findings from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) revealing 1,047 pipeline spills across Canada between 2000 and 2012, fueled Tinda’s indignation.

Tinda is concerned that a poorly planned, poorly engineered pipeline could put her family and her community at risk. Moreover, she understands that this pipeline would directly connect her community to the Alberta tar sands, and inevitably contribute to its expansion and to climate change.

Citizen engagement – particularly of those living on or near the proposed pipeline route – is at the heart of Tinda’s campaign to oppose the Energy East pipeline. She works to inform community members of the proposed pipeline and encourages them to find their own answers outside of those provided by TransCanada.

LEARN MORE

“Pipeline map: Have there been any incidents near you?”, CBC News, 22 October 2013.

Read Breaking Ground: Women, Oil and Climate Change in Alberta and British Columbia, a report detailing the findings from the Nobel Women’s Initiative delegation to Alberta’s tar sands in 2012.

Read the Breaking Ground: Women, Oil and Climate Change blog. 

Check out Jody Williams' visit to Ottawa to talk Women, Oil and Climate Change.

Watch Jody William's visit to the proposed Energy East pipeline route in Ottawa.

 

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16 Days of Activism

November 25, 2022

Afrah Nassar: "Believe that you are worth listening to."

November 25, 2022

Jamila Afghani: “We should extend hands of support to each other."

November 25, 2022

Mèaza Gidey Gebremedhin: “I always need to fight for myself, for my place in this world, and to help others.”

November 25, 2022

A Q&A with democracy activist Khin Ohmar: "I feel at peace knowing there is a young generation fighting for their rights."

November 25, 2022

Amira Osman Hamed: "Don't let them terrify you."

November 25, 2022

Lubna Alkanawati: "What's really helped me to survive is the women's network around me."

November 25, 2022

Nina Potarska, Anna Chernova and Oksana Senyk: "Family peace is a small piece of peacebuilding."

November 25, 2022

Nadia Murad: "We don't get anywhere by pacifying with politeness."

December 10, 2021

Manal Shqair: I’m always fighting every day for my existence as a woman (Palestine)

December 9, 2021

Ounaysa Arabi: Knowledge is power and we have a good inheritance from feminists around the world (Sudan)

December 9, 2021

Ilaf Nasreldin: We as women deserve to live a better life (Sudan)

December 8, 2021

Musu Diamond Kamara: When one woman is affronted, all of us are affronted (Liberia)

More — 16 Days of Activism

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