Canada

Anti-Pipeline Protests Shut Down Canadian Rail Networks

February 19, 2020 Olivia Rosane, Nationofchange.org Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

The Canadian government said Sunday it hoped to resolve the tension through dialogue. Anti-pipeline protests have shut down major rail networks across Canada as indigenous rights and environmental activists act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people of British Columbia, who are fighting to keep a natural gas pipeline off their land.

Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders Face Risks Experienced By Environmental Human Rights Defenders Around The World

February 18, 2020 Brent Patterson, Rabble.ca Strategize! Canada, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

The Indigenous Wet'suwet'en land defenders protecting their territory in northern British Columbia from the construction of the TC Energy Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline are experiencing many of the situations, risks and dynamics that environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) around the world encounter.

‘Reconciliation Cannot Be Achieved At Gunpoint’: B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip On Wet’suwet’en Stand-Off

February 18, 2020 Staff, Cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

It's an-all-too familiar story in Canada: Indigenous communities facing down a pipeline, along with heated debates about what constitutes meaningful consultation and consent. At the centre of the latest dispute is a natural gas pipeline passing through northwestern British Columbia. It's a multi-billion dollar project, touted to be the largest private sector investment in Canadian history.

‘War In The Woods, Round Two:’ Amid Civil Unrest, Activists Gear Up For Bigger Battle Over Trans Mountain

February 15, 2020 Jesse Snyder, Nationalpost.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Oil, Pipelines

OTTAWA — Recent protests and blockades are only the beginning of the civil disobedience that lies ahead as Ottawa pushes ahead with the controversial Trans Mountain expansion project, claims an activist group. “I really do see this as a taste of things to come,” said Alexandra Woodsworth, campaign organizer at the British Columbia-based Dogwood Initiative.

Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, And Genocide Problem

February 15, 2020 David Swanson, Worldbeyondwar.org Resist! Canada, Oil, Wars and Militarism

Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their courage and the absence on their part of cruelty or hatred, has the potential to create a much larger movement, which is of course the key to success.

Protests Continue Across Canada In Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders Fighting Fracked Gas Pipeline

February 14, 2020 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Solidarity

Demonstrations over the past week have halted traffic in downtown Vancouver and shut down railways throughout the country. Protests across Canada continued Wednesday in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en First Nation hereditary chiefs and land defenders fighting against a fracked gas pipeline that would cut through their unceded territory in northern British Columbia. For more than a year...

Unist’ot’en Matriarchs Arrested. Stand With Unist’ot’en Now!

February 11, 2020 Staff, Unistoten.camp Resist! Canada, Gas, Indigenous Peoples

Unist’ot’en Territory, Feb 10, 2020 – A convoy of armed RCMP tactical units has invaded sovereign and unceded Unist’ot’en Territory to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction. Our Unist’ot’en Matriarchs and lands defenders have been forcibly removed off their lands. Unist’ot’en Matriarchs Freda Huson (Chief Howihkat), Brenda Michell (Chief Geltiy), and Dr. Karla Tait have been forcibly removed off our territories and arrested.

When Justice Fails, Block The Rails

February 10, 2020 Krisna Saravanamuttu, Orion Endicott Keresztesi, and Valerie Lannon, Springmag.ca Resist! Blockades, Canada, Pipelines

Nearly 400 protesters in Toronto responded to the Wet’suwet’en call to shut down Canada by blocking a rail line. Protestors chanted, “when justice fails, block the rails” and “shut down Canada!” as they forced CP Rail trains to turn back. Vanessa Gray of Idle No More told Spring Magazine: “We are here to shut down the tracks in solidarity with everyone else shutting down Canada today. We demand that the RCMP stands down.

Climate Justice And Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally In Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en People As RCMP Continue Raids

February 10, 2020 Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Solidarity

Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet'suwet'en land in British Columbia. The Unist'ot'en Camp reported on its official Facebook page Sunday that at least 21 people had been arrested since Thursday, when, as Common Dreams reported...

‘We Will Continue to Fight,’ Protesters Vow After Canadian Court Dismisses Indigenous Challenge to Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

February 7, 2020 Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Canada, Courts, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

"It is alarming that Canada is so dead-set on pursuing the TMX when oil prices are declining, forests are burning, and more and more animal species are on the edge of extinction." Climate and Indigenous activists reiterated their dedication to blocking the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline after Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously rejected four challenges from First Nations in British Columbia to the government's approval of the project.

Report From The Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade

February 7, 2020 By Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade Resist! Canada, Indigenous Rights, Wet’suwet’en

This morning at approximately 4:30 am, heavily militarized RCMP invaded unceded Wet'suwet'en territory to facilitate construction of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline. Dozens of cops with dogs and assault rifles were used to arrest 6 unarmed people. This was a monitoring post, set up to look out for Wet'suwet'en people further up the road at the Gidimt'en Checkpoint and Unist'ot'en Camp. NO ONE was violating any injunction. RCMP said they would use the least amount of force possible, but they deployed a full-scale invading force. We have never ceded or surrendered this land and we never will. We stand strong.

Canadian Doctors Demand Fracking Moratorium On Health & Climate Grounds

January 31, 2020 Staff, Talkfracking.org Educate! Canada, Climate Change, Fracking, health

Within the report, concerns focus on negative health outcomes from environmental toxins such as naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs); the complex level of chemicals used in the fracking process, and the varying degree of toxicity these carry to impact to human health; water contamination through poor regulatory monitoring; psychological and mental impacts from living close to unconventional gas developments...

Wet’suwet’en Supporter Toolkit 2020

January 30, 2020 Staff, Unistoten.camp Organize! Canada, Indigenous People

We stand as witnesses to this historic moment when the federal and provincial governments, RCMP, and Coastal GasLink/TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian, and international law. Coastal GasLink/TC Energy is pushing through a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.

Canada Erupts In Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en

January 29, 2020 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Canada, Class Struggle, Energy, Indigenous Peoples, Solidarity

Thank you to the 50 people who gathered Saturday in SOLIDARITY with the Wet’suwet’en land defenders, on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe. The gathering was opened with songs and a speech. Then, despite the snow storm, the march took to the streets and traveled from Kingston City Hall to Queen’s University where Jawad Masud, TC Energy VP of Corporate Communications was speaking at the Oil and Gas Panel at the Queen’s Global Energy Conference.

Open Letter To Prime Minister Trudeau And Premier Horgan Re: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs’ Opposition To Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project

January 25, 2020 Staff, Firstpeopleslaw.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

As most of you will be aware, the possible RCMP enforcement of an injunction against the Unist’ot’en (a client of ours) in response to their continued opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline has been in the national news. Dozens of academics and lawyers from across Canada have signed the following letter urging the provincial and federal governments to meet directly with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs to open a nation-to-nation dialogue in the hopes of peacefully resolving the matter.

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