Protest - Revolt

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.

26/10/16
Author: 
Nick Fillmore

Ninety-nine young environmental activists achieved their goal on Parliament Hill on Monday by carrying out acts of civil disobedience. The boisterous group climbed over restricted-area police barricades near the Peace Tower.
 

25/10/16
Author: 
Bruce Cheadle
Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie and Kevin Settee hold up their court papers after they were ticketed for trespassing at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday. (Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie/Facebook)

Group protesting proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C

The Liberal government's conflicting climate and pipeline policies were thrown into sharp relief Monday as more than 200 protesters marched on Parliament Hill demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reject any new oilsands infrastructure.

The protest resulted in the brief detention of 99 individuals, all of them issued citations by the RCMP for trespassing after climbing over police barricades near the foot of the Peace Tower.

25/10/16
Author: 
Pat Kane
Part of the Peace River valley scheduled to be flooded in order to build the Site C dam in northeastern British Columbia. Dene leaders in the N.W.T. are calling for an immediate halt on construction of the Site C Dam, saying it violates treaty rights on their traditional homeland. (Justin McElroy/CBC)

Water flowing from the dam area into Dene territory protected under agreements, says Bill Erasmus

Dene leaders in the N.W.T. are calling for an immediate halt on construction of the Site C Dam in northern B.C., saying it violates treaty rights on their traditional homeland.

In a news release, Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus said the federal government has an obligation to respect land agreements with the Dene, including the protection of water flowing from the dam area into Dene territory.

25/10/16
Author: 
Trina Roache and Jorge Barrera
(Protectors of the Land were back in force at the Muskrat Falls construction site Monday. Photo: Trina Roache/APTN)

MUSKRAT FALLS, Labrador—A Newfoundland and Labrador judge has ordered a journalist to appear before the court for a contempt hearing in connection with the ongoing occupation and protest of Muskrat Falls.

The subpoena order was issued Monday against 22 people, including Justin Brake, a journalist with online news agency The Independent, who are currently occupying the Muskrat Falls construction offices of Nalcor, the Crown corporation behind the massive hydro-electric project.

25/10/16
Author: 
Kathleen Harris
Trudeau at Young Workers summit Oct 2016

Prime minister expresses frustration after protesters turn their back on him during event

[Video:Trudeau faces angry protests at Young Workers Summit 3:39]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced off with a room of angry protesters today who were venting their frustrations over everything from pipelines to the failed federal payroll system.

Some of the participants turned their backs on Trudeau in protest during the "armchair discussion" event at the Canadian Labour Congress National Young Workers Summit in Ottawa.

24/10/16
Author: 
Sophie Birks - 350.org

Friends,

Within the last hour, over 75 young people in Ottawa were arrested. I was one of them. We were arrested demanding that Prime Minister Trudeau reject Kinder Morgan -- because climate leaders don’t build pipelines.

23/10/16
Author: 
Adina Bresge
The construction site of the hydroelectric facility at Muskrat Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador is seen on July 14, 2015. (Andrew Vaughan/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Protesters broke into the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric site in Labrador and formed a blockade around it, Nalcor Energy confirmed Saturday.

Nalcor spokeswoman Karen O’Neill said protesters and vehicles entered the work site near Happy Valley-Goose Bay Saturday afternoon, and a blockade of around 150 people formed outside the main entrance.

21/10/16
Author: 
Assembly of First Nations

OTTAWA, Oct. 21, 2016 /CNW/ - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde will visit Treaty 8 territory threatened by the proposed Site C Dam in northern British Columbia. On Saturday, October 22 on behalf of the AFN, National Chief will stand with Treaty 8 First Nations in opposing the project. Treaty 8 First Nations are currently taking legal action to overturn federal approvals of the controversial hydroelectric project.

17/10/16
Author: 
Anna Delaney and Marilyn Boone

The protests began Saturday in Labrador, and expanded Monday into government offices

Nine people arrested during protests at the Muskrat Falls site in Labrador were released with conditions Monday.

The six women and three men are charged with disobeying a court order to leave the site, where they were protesting the planned reservoir flooding at the hydroelectric project.

While the protesters have been ordered to stay clear of the entrance to the worksite, they are allowed to be on the other side of the road.

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