British Columbia

11/02/20
Author: 
ELIZAZAHIROVIC
Image by Michael Toledano

Feb. 11, 2020

Solidarity Statement from Professors and Scholars in Support of the Wet’suwet’en people

****UPDATE: This solidarity statement was originally sent around and signed in February 2019. But in February 2020 it started circulating again and is gaining many more new signatories in response to the RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory which has happened in the past weeks. Hundreds more academics are signing daily.****

11/02/20
Author: 
Larry Barzelai and Warren Bell

OPINION: In much of northeastern B.C., Indigenous populations can no longer hunt and fish as their ancestors did, because their land and water are too polluted and disturbed by infrastructure.

As physicians, we are deeply distressed to see force being used to disrupt a legitimate protest by the Wet’suwet’en people. They are simply trying to protect the present and future health of their people. We need to be cognizant of the devastating effect that the Coastal GasLink pipeline will have on their way of life.

10/02/20
Author: 
Citizens
Please support the following important action on behalf of the resistance to the CGL fracked gas pipeline: 
 
In response to leadership from Wet'suwet'en and Indigenous Youth at the legislature, on
 
Friday the 14th, beginning at 8AM and continuing till noon, there will be a coordinated shut down of as many BC government ministries as possible.
 
10/02/20
Author: 
Timothy Gardner
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette speaks with journalists during a roundtable in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 2, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo
FEBRUARY 7, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Friday that Canada and Mexico could help export U.S. coal to Asia to get around the blocking of shipments by West Coast states concerned about the impact of the fuel on climate change.
 
 
10/02/20
Author: 
Emma McIntosh
An RCMP officer peers through a gate at Unist'ot'en Camp in Wet'suwet'en territory on Feb. 8, 2020. Photo by Michael Toledano

Using an ever-changing set of rules, RCMP in British Columbia arrested 11 opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline Saturday, the third day of raids on Wet’suwet’en Nation territory.

RCMP also continued to obstruct journalists on the remote forest road in northern B.C. where the conflict is playing out, drawing international criticism. A spokesperson for one of the nation’s five clans, Molly Wickham of Gidimt’en, said the police broke a promise not to make more arrests until after a meeting with the nation’s hereditary chiefs.

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