00:00Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, and Mark Ruffalo are among a list of Hollywood stars
00:05who have signed a petition urging the Royal Bank of Canada to stop financing the coastal gas link.
00:10The coastal gas link is a gas pipeline set to cut through the Wet'suwet'en territory
00:14in northwestern British Columbia without the consent of local hereditary chiefs.
00:19In Canada, opposition to the multi-billion dollar natural gas pipeline
00:23has led to rallies and rail blockades across the country.
00:26The open letter was organized by Indigenous Climate Action.
00:29Other actors and artists who signed it include Taika Waititi, Jane Fonda, Robert Downey Jr.,
00:35Ava DuVernay, Josh Gad, Mariska Hargitay, Rooney Mara, Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix,
00:41Amy Schumer, Ben Stiller, and Marissa Tomei, among others.
00:45The open letter to City National Bank and Royal Bank of Canada reads, in part,
00:49Stop funding fossil fuel expansion.
00:52City National Bank and Royal Bank of Canada must end the funding of extreme fossil fuel expansion
00:57projects, specifically fracking and tar sands.
01:00It goes on to say, City National Bank's parent company, Royal Bank of Canada,
01:04is bankrolling the climate crisis and violating the rights of Indigenous peoples.
01:09For more on this story and to read the full letter, go to THR.com.
01:13This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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