Multi-year benefit agreements have convinced some First Nations to back the project and pipeline, but some indigenous communities are still opposed, report Mark Hume and Brent Jang
By promising hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, the B.C. government has won wide First Nations support for the Pacific NorthWest LNG project and the pipeline that will supply it.
We speak with 350.org’s Bill McKibben about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America have resisted construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, even as police carrying assault rifles responded to them with armored vehicles, tear gas and helicopters. "We cannot pump more oil," McKibben says.
Meanwhile, a Reuters investigation finds pipeline spill detection system severely flawed
Close to 100 scientists have signed onto a letter decrying "inadequate environmental and cultural impact assessments" for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and calling for a halt to construction until such tests have been carried out as requested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Yes, that's salmon trying to punch Daddy Canada in the face. Photo via Facebook.
A group of First Nations plans to launch a slew of legal challenges against the federal government over its approval of the Petronas liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near Prince Rupert, BC.
The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy? Dzawada’enuxw demand removal of their traditional territory from the Great Bear Rainforest
(Friday, September 30, 2016) This week the Great Bear Rainforest, declared the “jewel in the crown” of Canada’s protected areas when it was established early in 2016, was endorsed as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited B.C.’s central coast during their Canadian tour.
In approving a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the project is “consistent with the government’s reconciliation agenda” with Indigenous Peoples.
Despite this claim, her government’s work on this file has been a travesty. It is clear that reconciliation as understood by the federal government is much more about “the economy” than building real relationships with Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous leaders are blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for talking big, but not backing up his words with actions, following the federal government’s announcement Sept. 27 that Pacific NorthWest’s liquefied natural gas project had been approved. That approval comes on the heels of the nod being given to another much-contested B.C. project, the Site C dam.
