Indigenous Peoples

06/03/17
Author: 
Rhianna Schmunk
This photograph shows what appears to be fuel in the water around the Burdwood Fish Farm in Echo Bay B.C., which is northeast of Port McNeill on Vancouver Island. (Twyla Rosocovich)

Company 'highly regrets' spilling of 600 litres; initial reports said the amount was 1,500 litres

Emergency crews are responding to a diesel spill at a fish farm near the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

Early Sunday officials said at least 1,500 litres of diesel overflowed from the Burdwood Fish Farm in Echo Bay, B.C., northeast of Port McNeill.

The company that owns the site, Cermaq Canada, issued a statement later on Sunday that the amount of diesel spilled was closer to 600 litres.

01/03/17
Author: 
Tom Fennario

APTN National News
Lawyers working on a review of how the Toronto Dominion bank is investing in the Dakota Access pipeline said it has not idea when the project will be complete.

In December, the bank issued a statement stating that it would undertake a review after protesters blocked several branches in Canada and the United States in an effort to get the bank to stop investing in the Dakota Access pipeline.

17/02/17
Author: 
Ayoko Mie

Citizen’s groups on Friday delivered a petition with more than 11,300 signatures to three of Japan’s mega-banks to demand they halt funding for the Dakota Access Pipeline reinstated by U.S. President Donald Trump.

17/02/17
Author: 
Shannon Lough

Prince Rupert, B.C. posted Feb 16, 2017

The provincial government views the multiple benefits agreements for Metlakatla and Lax Kw’alaams as a win for both the LNG industry and First Nations reconciliation.

In conversation with John Rustad, the minister of Aboriginal relations and reconciliation, on Feb. 16, the day following the landmark deal, he explained that even if the Pacific NorthWest LNG project doesn’t follow through with a final investment decision (FID) some land will still be transferred to First Nations.

15/02/17
Author: 
Sam Levin
 Jake Pogue, a 32-year-old marine corps vet, returned to the Sacred Stone camp on Friday. Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian

A growing group of military veterans are willing to put their bodies between Native American activists and the police trying to remove them

12/02/17
Author: 
Teressa Rose Ezell
A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The “seventh sign” in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black and bringing death to many sea-dwelling creatures. It doesn’t take an over-active imagination to make a connection between these images and oil pipelines and spills.
09/02/17
Author: 
Judith Lavoie

A bizarre twist in a decade-long battle over a proposed mine on Tsilhqot’in Nation traditional territory could see the B.C.government issue extensive exploration permits for the mine this month even though the project has twice been turned down by the federal government.

09/02/17
Author: 
William Yardley
Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, left, as fellow Councilwoman Debora Juarez, right, is embraced by Rachel Heaton, a Muckleshoot tribal member, before Wednesday's council meeting. (Elaine Thompson / AP)

With supporters carrying signs saying “Make big business pay” and Native American activists performing an “honor song” in gratitude, the Seattle City Council on Tuesday voted to make this the first city in the nation to ends its relationship with a bank in protest of the Dakota Access pipeline.

08/02/17
Author: 
Mike Hudema
 
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An urgent situation is unfolding across the border in the US.

Following a directive from Donald Trump, the US Army Corps of Engineers is about to grant the final permit needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. The time to act is NOW.

02/02/17
Author: 
Brent Jang
Donald Wesley poses by a truck belonging to another reserve resident in the community of Lax Kw'alaams in northwestern British Columbia. (Brent Jang/The Globe and Mail)

A group of more than 20 hereditary chiefs and matriarchs in the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation is crying foul over an aboriginal leader whose battle against a B.C. liquefied natural gas project includes a lawsuit.

The group belonging to the Gitwilgyoots tribe of the Lax Kw’alaams is upset at Donald (Donnie) Wesley, alleging he doesn’t have the authority to act on behalf of the tribe.

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