Christy Clark’s worst nightmare converged on unceded Coast Salish Territory

Indigenous Nations and allies of British Columbia unite to say No Pipelines! This weekend, Christy Clark’s worst nightmare converged on unceded Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver. After her surprise election, won on promises of a natural gas and resource extraction bonanza, her political future is staked to her claims of 100,000 jobs and $100 billion in royalties. Not factored into these calculations is that any resource extraction from pipelines, logging, mining, to fracking fields in the north-east and LNG plants on the coast would have to pass through unceded Indigenous territory and so, would require the free, prior and informed consent of the hereditary leadership of those lands. Consent they do not have and will not receive.