Canada

22/11/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

WE ARE COAST  PROTECTORS

"Now is the time to stand beside Indigenous people in support of our timeless struggle to defend Mother Earth.

There is a battle being waged across the globe by Indigenous Peoples and their allies demanding a safe, healthy world for future generations. This is about water versus oil and life versus death, and ultimately, survival versus extinction."

21/11/16
Author: 
Rafe Mair
Recent Vancouver rally against Kinder Morgan (Photo: David Suzuki Foundation/Facebook)
None should be in the slightest surprised at the anti-British Columbia stance of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. As Talleyrand famously noted when, after the fall of Napoleon the Bourbons were restored, “they learned nothing and forgot nothing”.

Thus it is with the Liberals who, once safely back in power, turn their attention to repaying supporters, namely Ontario financiers and the oil industry, often the same people. This ancient Liberal policy never fails.

21/11/16
Author: 
Nick Eagland
An estimated 5000 people march down Cambie Street from Vancouver city hall to downtown Vancouver Saturday, November 19, 2016 protesting the proposed expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. JASON PAYNE / PNG

Thousands of protestors cried betrayal Saturday during a massive march against Justin Trudeau’s anticipated approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The federal government will make a decision by Dec. 19 on whether to allow Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan to twin its existing pipeline, which primarily carries bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.

18/11/16
Author: 
Chief Roland Willson

From: Roland Willson [mailto:rwillson@westmo.org]
Sent: November 18, 2016 2:51 AM
To: Don Bain <donb@ubcic.bc.ca>
Subject: FW: AN Op-ed regarding Senator Neufleds comments
Importance: High

 

Silence on Site C a Disgraceful Double Standard

 

18/11/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

From: Yakawilas Coreen Child [mailto:coreenchild@gmail.com]
Sent: November-18-16 10:59 AM
Subject: Standing in Solidarity - Calling all Land, Air, Water and Sea protectors

 

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FOR RELEASE

WATER IS LIFE – 

NORTH ISLAND PROTECTORS GATHER AT THE NIMKISH BRIDGE

 

18/11/16
Author: 
Cameron MacLean,
Kevin Hart, who co-chairs the AFN’s committee on climate and the environment, speaking at the United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco. (Source: Assembly of First Nations)

The effects of climate change disproportionately affect indigenous people around the world, although they contribute to it the least.

That’s one message Manitoba’s regional chief to the Assembly of First Nations has taken to Marrakech, Morocco, where leaders from around the world have gathered for the United Nations climate conference.

Kevin Hart, who co-chairs the AFN’s committee on climate and the environment, told CTV Winnipeg indigenous economies are built on a harmonious relationship with nature.

18/11/16
Author: 
Cara McKenna
JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO FILE  Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, the head of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, led protesters down a muddy trail deep into the conservation area’s forest on Nov. 27, 2014, where Kinder Morgan continued work at a second injunction-protected site. Phillip, his mother and several others then crossed the police tape into the work area and were arrested by RCMP, joining more than 100 others who have been willingly arrested since police began enforcing the injunction.

Indigenous stories: Group led by UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip will sign on to do “whatever it takes” to stop pipeline.

People at a mass rally against Kinder Morgan on Saturday are expected to make a group pledge to take escalating actions if the pipeline project is approved.

The event will begin at City Hall at noon and is expected to draw hundreds of people including Indigenous, provincial and municipal leaders, as well as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

18/11/16
Author: 
Kennedy Stewart
Jim Carr addresses supporters on election night. (Photo: CP)

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr recently declared the federal government will not require the full, prior and informed consent from First Nations when it decides whether or not to allow Kinder Morgan to build a new crude oil pipeline through British Columbia.

15/11/16
Author: 
Oliver Milman
 Pipeline leading to the Syncrude Canada Ltd upgrader plant sits at the company’s mine near Fort McMurray in Canada. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tuesday 15 November 2016 

Government subsidy to gas and oil companies undermine Trudeau’s plan to put national price on carbon dioxide by 2018, environmental report warned

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