Climate activists target Emily Carr painting at Vancouver Art Gallery with maple syrup
Global News
One of the activists claims the incident is a protest against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and demands for the construction of the pipeline to end.
Two climate change activists targeted an Emily Carr painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Saturday.
In a social media post by the account Stop Fracking Around on Twitter, a video shows two activists dousing a painting with an unknown liquid that is said to be maple syrup per the tweet.
The two activists then apparently glue themselves to the wall underneath the painting.
In the video posted, one of the activists claims the incident is a protest against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and demands for the construction of the pipeline to end.
“We are Stop Fracking Around. We are here to raise our voices and we are not going to be quiet,” one of the activists said.
“We demand that the government stop building the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, the government cancels fossil fuels infrastructure and that the government cancels the Trans Mountain pipeline.”
The Vancouver Art Gallery has confirmed two individuals were able to vandalize Emily Carr’s Stumps and Sky painting.
