Protest - Revolt

07/11/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Prime Minister Trudeau announces the National Oceans Protection Plan in Vancouver, B.C. on Mon. Nov. 7, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.

As cabinet ministers weigh the pros and cons of a major oilsands expansion project that would send tanker traffic soaring in southern B.C. waters, the federal government has announced an unprecedented $1.5-billion investment in marine safety along Canadian coastlines.

06/11/16
Author: 
Jorge Barrera
(Supporters at a camp on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation. Standing Rock is currently battling construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. APTN/File)

Canada could face “20 Standing Rocks,” said a Mohawk chief in response to the Justin Trudeau government’s revelation Thursday it doesn’t plan to include consent as part of its consultation approach with First Nations on major resource projects.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr told reporters Thursday the Trudeau government believes it only needs to accommodate and consult First Nations before proceeding with major resource development projects and not obtain “free prior and informed consent.”

06/11/16
Author: 
Nelson Bennett
Squamish Nation members Jamie Antone, Sut-Lut and Clarissa Antone make their presence felt at the Trans Mountain ministerial panel hearing held at District of North Vancouver hall on Aug. 19 | Mike Wakefield, North Shore News

A three-person ministerial panel set up as a kind of complaints desk for the Trans Mountain pipeline project has submitted its final report to the Canadian government.

Federal ministers will find plenty of grievances about the pipeline and the National Energy Board (NEB) regulatory process that approved it in the 60-page report.

31/10/16
Author: 
Paul Spencer

Activists and tribal members Kandi Mossett, Dean Dedman, and Dallas Goldtooth are racing to release new footage of the protests against Energy Transfer Partners, which is building a controversial four-state oil pipeline from North Dakota to Indiana. They can’t get solid reception at Highway 1806 in North Dakota, where they’re calling me from, so they’re deciding how to upload the content quickly. Phone reception begins to break up.

31/10/16
Author: 
Mani Dunlop
Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of Māori have taken to Facebook to show their solidarity for Native Americans protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Native Americans and environmentalists at Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's land havebeen in protest camps in North Dakota since April, demonstrating against the controversial oil pipeline.

31/10/16
Author: 
Sarah Lazare

Police departments around the country are sending reinforcements to North Dakota to support mining companies.

29/10/16
Author: 
Unicorn Riot

Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp

Video: https://www.facebook.com/unicornriot.ninja/videos/364876927179868/

Morton County, ND – Over two hundred multi-state law enforcement and National Guard personnel attacked water protectors gathered on unceded 1851 Oceti Sakowin treaty land just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the late morning of Thursday, October 27th.

29/10/16
Author: 
Richard Warnica
Sacred Stone Camp near Cannonball, ND on Friday, September 9, 2016.

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA — The caravan rumbled east on a back road in rural North Dakota, pickup trucks and hippie vans inching through the grey-green hills, searching for a passage through the shifting blockade. Overhead, a helicopter circled. Police trucks whipped by on the ground. They kicked up dust that streamed over the fields where black cattle roamed and protesters, desperate for a pee, ducked behind hay bales or hid in the taller grass.

29/10/16
Author: 
David Marchese
Protesters march to a construction site for the Dakota Access pipeline. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

If it’s possible in this oversaturated age for a mass-protest movement to fly under the radar, the battle over the building of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline certainly qualifies. Just this past weekend in Morton County, North Dakota, 127 people were arrested during protests over renewed construction, which follows what protesters believed was relief from the federal government, in the form of a multi-agency letter to the pipeline builders, Energy Transfer Partners, asking them to halt building for tribal consultation and the preparation of environmental-impact statements.

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