Indigenous Peoples

16/10/17
Author: 
Coast Protectors
October 2, 2017 Rally before the Federal Court of Appeals trial

The best chance to defeat Kinder Morgan by legal means just ended after a nine day trial in Vancouver’s Federal Court of Appeals.

On the first day of the trial, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip hosted a welcome rally, reminding the Kinder Morgan resistance that no matter what happens in the Federal Court of Appeals, we will do whatever it takes to stop Kinder Morgan.

16/10/17
Author: 
Carolyn Jarvis & Andrew Russell

#11 of 11 articles from the Special Report:The Price of Oil

The Ontario government says it is committed to funding a health study to determine the impact of air pollution on residents living near Sarnia’s Chemical Valley following a Global News investigation that revealed a troubling pattern of potentially dangerous leaks there.

11/10/17
Author: 
Pull Together

A big week in pipeline politics - Week 2 court report

 

03/10/17

For Immediate Release - October 3, 2017

Numerous groups send strong message of support for Oil Tanker Moratorium Act

SMITHERS, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Today a broad range of groups including northerners, Indigenous organizations, local governments, labour unions and environmental groups, are sending a strong message of support for Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act.

03/10/17
Author: 
Dylan Waisman
Indigenous representatives at a news conference in Vancouver addressing the legal challenge to Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline expansion. Photo by Dylan Waisman

The federal government was already building a website announcing approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion when it "consulted" with First Nations in November 2016, according to lawyers at the opening day of a court challenge in Vancouver.

28/09/17
Author: 
Telesur staff
A member of an Indigenous community in Ecuador shows the contamination by Chevron in the Amazon. | Photo: AFP

Ecuador will open a new lawsuit in Canada against the multinational oil giant next month.

A group of Indigenous citizens from Canada is visiting the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador to document environmental damage reportedly committed by multinational oil giant Chevron.

27/09/17
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL RULES AGAINST KINDER MORGAN AND GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Crown fails to look-out for the best interests of the Band

26/09/17
Author: 
Natasha Lennard
Standing Rock protest

Rattler sat on the sofa scrolling through his phone. It was a drizzling, cold spring day in Bismarck, North Dakota, but he wasn’t going outside much anyway. A great mountain of a man with thick black hair to his waist and a disarming gentleness, Rattler made the objects around him look small. The sofa on which he sat, the phone he held, the homey living room where we met, the whole city of Bismarck seemed too small for Rattler. But his bail conditions and an ankle monitor confined him to the area for over half a year as he awaits trial.

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