Thousands of protesters from more than 130 communities all around Canada staged rallies to protest Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Protesters organized rallies that covered the country coast-to-coast; the biggest was in Vancouver. The protest actions were organized by umbrella group Defend Our Climate.

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Earlier in November, Christy Clark and Allison Redford, B.C. Premier and Alberta Premier, respectively, said a framework agreement has been reached concerning the controversial pipeline project, effectively signaling approval.

The 1,200-kilometre pipeline would connect Alberta's oil sands to B.C.'s coast at a terminal in Kitimat. It would carry 550,000 barrels of heavy oil daily.

"This has really become a conversation about a gateway to global warming, about a symbol that represents a fight that's so much bigger than any one particular pipeline," Ben West from ForestEthics told the Georgia Straight.

"[It's] really part of a much bigger conversation about the tar sands, about climate change, about indigenous rights, about the power of corporations-and the strength of citizen movements to do something about it."

"The government seems to be intent on going ahead, with no brakes on the process, in developing energy projects like the Enbridge pipeline, without any concerns for the environmental effects," Anne-Marie St. Laurent, a protester, told The Vancouver Sun.

Sentiments rounded up by the Sunday Province showed they don't trust Enbridge because it has a bad record for spilling oil and fouled clean ups. The disasters it had done in the past will surely happen in B.C. if the pipeline project is approved.

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"Alberta's pipedream is B.C.'s nightmare," protester Ryan Sieber's placard said.

"I feel fairly strongly about not having a pipeline in our backyard," Mr Sieber told the Globe and Mail.

"We see this as a major turning point for this province - this is a global crisis and the public in B.C. wants us to be part of the solution to climate change, not a big part of the problem," 17-year-old youth activist Sam Harrison told Vancouver Sun.