Indigenous Peoples

04/10/16
Author: 
Bob Weber

EDMONTON — First Nations and environmental groups want the federal government to revisit its approval of British Columbia’s Site C dam which they worry would threaten a national park that is a World Heritage Site.

Groups including the Mikisew Cree and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society say the risk to Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park from the dam and upstream oilsands development is so dire that they will ask UNESCO investigators to put the area on its list of threatened sites.

03/10/16
Author: 
Mark Hume and Brent Jang
Ellis Ross, former chief councilor of the Haisla First Nation, is opposed to the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline, but he supports plans to export LNG. BEN NELMS/BLOOMBERG

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.

02/10/16
Author: 
Democracy Now

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.

02/10/16
Author: 
Deirdre Fulton
A #NoDAPL solidarity event in Oakland, California earlier this month. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

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.

30/09/16
Author: 
Hilary Beaumont
Yes, that's salmon trying to punch Daddy Canada in the face. Photo via Facebook.

September 29, 2016

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.

30/09/16
Author: 
Dzawada’enuxw

PRESS RELEASE

 

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.

 

29/09/16
Author: 
Jason Markusoff and Martin Patriquin

New oil sands pipelines may be vital for the industry, but opponents are winning

September 29, 2016

29/09/16
Author: 
Chelsea Vowel

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. 

29/09/16
Author: 
Shari Narine
Grand Chief Stewart Phillips, of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (photo:file)

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.

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