Indigenous Peoples

29/06/16
Author: 
Mark Hume
The Pine Valley open pit coal mine in the Peace River district of northeastern B.C., shown in 2005. Chief Marvin Yahey says resource industry development has negatively affected the Blueberry River First Nations' traditional territory, which overlies a large part of B.C.’s northeast oil and gas field. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)

The Blueberry River First Nations has released an atlas showing that more than 80 per cent of its traditional territory – which overlies a large part of B.C.’s northeast oil and gas field – has been negatively affected by development.

“Fracking, forestry, roads and other development is pushing us further and further to the edges of our territory,” Chief Marvin Yahey said Tuesday.

29/06/16
Author: 
Ash Kelly, Brielle Morgan
Lax Kw'alaams
For more than 5,000 years, First Nations people have collected plants and harvested red cedar on Lelu Island, which sits where the Skeena River meets the Pacific Ocean near Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia.
17/06/16
Author: 
Laura Kane
Kayakers paddle past the U.S.-registered tanker "Commitment" anchored on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, B.C., waiting to load at Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal on the south shore of Burrard Inlet in Burnaby on Thursday May 3, 2012. (DARRYL DYCK for the Globe and Mail)

A British Columbia First Nation has launched a court challenge to overturn the National Energy Board’s recommendation that the federal cabinet approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The Squamish Nation, whose traditional territories span a large swath of B.C.’s south coast, filed an application for judicial review on Thursday in Vancouver’s Federal Court of Appeal. It seeks to quash the NEB’s decision and refer it back for reconsideration.

Vancouver mayor seeking 'definitive no' on pipeline expansion (CP Video)

07/06/16
Author: 
Christopher Curtis
A sign — Don’t spill in our home — protests against the Energy East pipeline. DARIO AYALA / MONTREAL GAZETTE

The Kanesatake Mohawks are challenging the Energy East pipeline application, claiming it’s incomplete because it doesn’t address potential environmental risks the structure would pose as it crosses the Ottawa River.

If regulators accept the application as complete, it would be “the height of irresponsibility,” according to a legal letter filed Monday by the Mohawks’ lawyer to the National Energy Board.

30/05/16
Author: 
Leslie Dyson
Carleen Thomas speaks at the May 24 forum. Gary Beattie

Pipeline plans have local communities up in arms

MAY 27, 2016

About 70 members of First Nations and the B.C. communities south of the Fraser River met on May 24 at the Sumas First Nation Community Hall to talk about the threat of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

25/05/16
Author: 
Shawn McCarthy
A sign protesting the Site C proposal is pictured near Hudson's Hope, B.C., on July, 17, 2014. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The federal government has rejected a call from the Royal Society of Canada and some 250 scientists and academics to put a halt to British Columbia’s Site C hydroelectric project despite concerns that the federal-provincial approval in 2014 ignored serious environmental impacts and trampled on First Nations’ rights.

13/05/16
Author: 
Mike Carter
In-river excavation on the Site C dam early 2016.   Photograph By BC Hydro

Local First Nations leaders were quick to call the federal Liberals hypocrites for formally adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) while construction proceeds on the Site C dam. 

But a pair of constitutional law professors from the University of British Columbia (UBC) say they shouldn't be so quick to judge. 

30/04/16
Author: 
Sebastien Malo
A female grizzly bear on the hunt for salmon in Glendale river while her spring cub shakes its self off in Knights Inlet, B.C. September 18, 2013. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)

Canadian scientists have collected stories from more than 90,000 people whose traditional ways of life rely on nature, in an effort to capture signs of climate change where weather stations are absent.

Their findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, fill a knowledge gap in climate change science, which is dominated by data and computer models, said the six researchers from Simon Fraser University.

28/04/16
Author: 
Kevin Campbell

It’s going to come down to science, not job creation.

That’s the message that a group of B.C. First Nations leaders received from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) when they travelled to Ottawa and Parliament Hill to voice their opinion that the Pacific NorthWest LNG proposed LNG export terminal on Lelu Island does not have universal support from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities alike in the northwest.

22/04/16
Author: 
Erin Flegg
Tsleil-Waututh First Nation Chief Maureen Thomas signs the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. Photo by Erin Flegg.

First Nation whose territory is directly affected by pipeline development sign on to oppose tar sands development

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