The Justice Department, Energy Transfer LP—one of the owners of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) – and Indigenous tribes are set to appear virtually at 2 pm EDT in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where federal government lawyers are expected to announce the fate of the fossil fuel project.
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‚We Will Not Stop‘: First Nations Land Defenders Take Direct Action Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
„We have never provided and will never provide our collective free, prior, and informed consent—the minimal international standard—to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project,“ the Tiny House Warriors website declares. „The Tiny House Warrior movement is the start of re-establishing village sites and asserting our authority over our unceded territories.“
Quebec watchdog to probe fatal RCMP shooting of N.B. Indigenous man
Quebec’s police watchdog will investigate a fatal RCMP shooting involving a Mi’kmaq man in New Brunswick on Friday night.
Crown, company drop charges against LNG pipeline opponents in B.C.
The arrests of 22 members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and their supporters sparked protests across the country, shutting down rail and roads and putting a dent in the Canadian economy.
Canada passenger rail company lays off 1,000 staff as blockades bite
The protesters say they back the Wet’suwet’en indigenous people of British Columbia in their campaign against the C$6.6 billion ($4.98 billion) Coastal GasLink project. Some aboriginal bands claim the right to veto projects on their territory, a stance rejected by a Canadian court earlier this month.
“Reconciliation doesn’t mean allowing a couple of people to shut down the national economy,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney told reporters.
VIDEO: B.C. officials to meet Wet’suwet’en chiefs over gas pipeline protest
B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser has agreed to a meeting with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to resolve an impasse that has seen roadblocks on the route of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline spread to the nearby CN Rail tracks in northwestern B.C.
A letter from Premier John Horgan to a Wet’suwet’en chief confirms acceptance of a meeting, to be joined by a federal representative and a member of the neighbouring Gitxsan community.
‚This is war‘: Anti-pipeline protesters occupy David Eby Vancouver constituency office
The Vancouver constituency office of B.C.’s Attorney General was taken over Thursday by anti-pipeline protesters and supporters of Wet’suwet’en people opposed to a GasLink pipeline project.
Upwards of 50 people occupied the office and surrounding sidewalk, singing, drumming, giving speeches and milling about the room. Attorney General David Eby was in Victoria at the time of the protest.
Pipeline protest comes to Saskatoon
Hundreds of people marched in an anti-pipeline protest through downtown Saskatoon late Thursday afternoon.
By What Right Does Canada and Its Gendarmerie Invade Wet’suwet’en Territory?
People need to see what the government of Canada is doing!
Canada’s Battle Against First Nations Shows Slide Toward Authoritarianism
The Canadian state has always, if only tacitly, understood this relationship between authoritarianism, resource extraction, colonialism and what Karl Marx called “primitive accumulation” — the looting and pillaging of wealth. Like the U.S., Canada has a long, ignominious record of abusing, locking up and betraying promises to Indigenous peoples.
First Nation praises creation of new park to buffer Alberta national park
The Alberta government announced on Tuesday the creation of Kitaskino Nuwenene Wildland Park, a 1,600-square-kilometre park that links and expands two previously announced parks buffering Wood Buffalo National Park.
The park comes after three energy companies — Cenovus, Imperial Oil and Teck Resources — returned oil sands leases to the government.