Oil - Pipelines

Jul 14, 2018

Greenpeace boats join groups calling for protection of water from spills

July 12th 2018

This story was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Editor: Here is the link to a series of articles, (5 chapters), unmasking Kinder Morgan spies: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/07/13/kinder-morgan-privately-eyes-trans-mountain-protesters

And here is Chapter 5:

If Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project proceeds, the land, resources, and rights of more than 130 Indigenous communities and groups from Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s coast could be affected.

July 9, 2018 - Just imagine if a consortium of First Nations owned a sizable stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline and were determined to push it through because it would put more money in the hands of Indigenous people.

There is a plan afoot to do exactly that and later this month First Nations leaders will meet in Vancouver to advance the idea.

It’s a bold move but it would also give some First Nations the kind of control over resource projects in their own backyards they have long dreamed of.

Of course, not all First Nations would be happy.