How a discovery in South China Sea fuels further doubt around BC's stalled natural gas dreams.
Over the last few years, China has annoyed some of its neighbours by dredging islands out of the South China Sea and claiming the whole region as its property. These steps have not much alarmed the West, apart from a few pundits looking for the Next Big Enemy.
On June 10, 2016, KAIROS released an Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark urging them to suspend construction of the Site C dam on the Peace River until Indigenous peoples’ rights have been respected and the B.C. Utilities Commission has conducted a thorough review.1 This Briefing Paper will explain why KAIROS and other civil society organizations are taking action on this issue.
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June 30, 2016 - The Federal Court of Appeal has quashed the federal government's Enbridge pipeline decision.
The fault the Court identified in the entire process was the federal government's consultation process that occurred after the NEB decision and the Joint Review Panel Report.
In July and August 2016, the TMX Ministerial Panel will hold a series of roundtable and town hall meetings along the TMX pipeline and marine corridors in Alberta and BC.
The Panel will listen to local communities, stakeholders, and Indigenous groups, and identify additional views that could be relevant to the Government’s final decision on the project.
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Updates posted as available, check here regularly for the latest information.
Court overturns federal approval of Enbridge Northern Gateway project
First Nations call on Trudeau to implement tanker ban and reject the project for good
NADLEH WHUT’EN TRADITIONAL LANDS, BC/YINKA DENE TERRITORIES – First Nations of the Yinka Dene Alliance (YDA) are celebrating a legal victory today, as the Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the federal government’s conditional approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project.
June 27, 2016 - If you ask the premier of British Columbia, Canada's largest resource project proposal now has a green light from the five First Nations groups it was legally required to consult.
The massive $36-billion liquefied natural gas terminal proposed by Pacific Northwest LNG already earned signed agreements (or preliminary agreements with conditions) from four of the five bands on BC's far northwest coast. It just needed consent from one more.
The Blueberry River First Nations has released an atlas showing that more than 80 per cent of its traditional territory – which overlies a large part of B.C.’s northeast oil and gas field – has been negatively affected by development.
“Fracking, forestry, roads and other development is pushing us further and further to the edges of our territory,” Chief Marvin Yahey said Tuesday.
For more than 5,000 years, First Nations people have collected plants and harvested red cedar on Lelu Island, which sits where the Skeena River meets the Pacific Ocean near Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia.
VICTORIA, June 27 — For all of Premier Christy Clark’s vow to advance the Site C project past the point of no return before the election, the New Democrats maintain they would subject the $9 billion B.C. Hydro project to independent review before deciding whether to let it proceed to completion.
