Indigenous Peoples

24/02/18
Author: 
Jennifer Thuncher, Andy Prest
Photo: PAUL MCGRATH/NORTH SHORE NEWS

More than 50 local and North Vancouver Squamish Nation protesters and supporters headed down Capilano Road south of Marine Drive Thursday as they marched to demonstrate outside the Kinder Morgan facility on the North Vancouver waterfront.

23/02/18
Author: 
stand.earth
Changing the Game: Lessons from Stopping the Tesoro Savage Terminal
 
Facebook online video conference: How a grassroots effort in Washington fought big oil and won
 
 
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20/02/18
Author: 
Tereza Verenca
More than 100 protesters were arrested on Burnaby Mountain in late 2014 for interfering with Kinder Morgan’s survey work. Pipeline opponents are gearing up for another demonstration on the mountain on March 10. Photograph By NOW FILES

Burnaby Mountain will once again be the site of a mass demonstration.

[Editor - see under events: http://www.ecosocialistsvancouver.org/kwekwecnewtxw-protect-inlet]

In response to Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion project, anti-pipeline activists are organizing a protest on March 10.

15/02/18
Author: 
Atiya Jaffar -350.org

Friends,

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently said “if I thought there was a danger to the beautiful British Columbia coast, I would not have approved the Kinder Morgan pipeline.”  

The thing is, I live on this coast, and the community members, Indigenous leaders, and even politicians that surround me don’t share Trudeau’s level of certainty. In fact, we’ve seen many scientific reports indicating that Kinder Morgan would be devastating for the Pacific.  

14/02/18
Author: 
Shawn McCarthy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

First Nations communities and their supporters are planning to ratchet up on-the-ground resistance to Kinder Morgan Inc.'s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline with a call for a mass demonstration on Burnaby Mountain in March.

Members of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation – which is challenging the federal approval in court – is launching a campaign of volunteer recruitment and training Tuesday through a network of allied Indigenous communities and environmental groups.

14/02/18
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had an interview with National Observer's Sandy Garossino on Tues. Feb. 13, 2018 in Ottawa. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is confident that his approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion will withstand legal challenges from First Nations who say they were not adequately consulted on it.

The federal government "went through all the right steps" before giving the green light to the hotly-contested pipeline project, he told National Observer in an exclusive interview on Tuesday afternoon.

08/02/18
Author: 
Rebeca Macias Gimenez

Indigenous consultation on environmental assessments that only considers the “significant adverse effects” of a project won’t bring about reconciliation.

 

n August 2016, the federal government established a panel of four specialists to review how government conducts environmental assessments on proposed projects with significant impact on the environment, such as energy and natural resources developments.

08/02/18
Author: 
John Paul Tasker

Liberals say they will also announce new protections for oceans, lakes and rivers

Feb 08, 2018

The federal Liberal government says it will streamline the approval process for major natural resources projects, scrapping the National Energy Board and empowering a new body to conduct more extensive consultation with groups affected by development.

The changes are part of the largest overhaul of Canada's environmental assessment process in a generation.

08/02/18
Author: 
Claudia Cattaneo

[Editor's Note: It is well known that other indigenous peoples are leading the no pipeline movement and support an oil tanker moratorium on BC's coast.]

A First Nations’ led $17-billion oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast has put in motion a back-up plan to site its terminal across the border

February 6, 

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