Pipelines

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.

Ongoing Demonstrations In Support Of Wet’swet’en Shut Down Rail Traffic

February 13, 2020 By Anne Petermann , Globaljusticeecology.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protest Demonstrations

Via Rail has cancelled another 33 train trips departing Toronto for points east Tuesday due to an ongoing demonstration in support of Wet’suwet’en pipeline opponents. Tyendinaga Mohawk members say they won’t end their demonstration near Belleville, Ont., until the RCMP leaves the territory of the Wet’suwet’en in northwestern B.C., where there have been numerous arrests of protesters who have been blocking an access road.

West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines A Felony

February 11, 2020 Staff , Morgancountyusa.org Educate! Civil Disobedience, Pipelines, Reform, Repression, West Virginia

Industry drafted legislation (HB 4615) that would make civil disobedience against a pipeline or other fossil fuel projects a felony is moving through the West Virginia legislature. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation February 10, 2020 at 8:30 am.

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.

Wet’suwet’en Supporters Block Port Of Vancouver For Third Straight Day

February 10, 2020 Jessica Kerr, Vancouverisawesome.com Resist! Blockades, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

Protestors supporting Wet’suwet’en blocked access to the Port of Vancouver Saturday. File photo Dan Toulgoet For the third straight day in a row, protestors supporting First Nations opponents to a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. are blocking access to the Port of Vancouver. The blockade, which has closed down the intersection of Hastings and Clark, as well as Powell and Heatley, and Commissioner and McGill, is also affecting traffic on Highway 1.

Unist’ot’en Burn Injunction On Bridge And Actions Shut Down Canada

February 9, 2020 By Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade, Popular Resistance. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Wet’suwet’en

Canada - On the morning of February 8, 2020, RCMP officers landed at the gates of Unist'ot'en Village by helicopter. Unist'ot'en chiefs and house members began calling on their ancestors for support. They held a cremation ceremony for Canadian/Indigenous reconciliation, and burned a copy of the injunction that the RCMP was there to serve on behalf of Coastal GasLink (TC Energy). After about 30 minutes, the RCMP got back into their helicopters and left. Eleven people including legal observers were arrested today at the camp at 27 kilometer on bogus charges. The 4 people arrested at 27 km yesterday are being held in jail until they appear before a judge in Smithers on Monday In response rail lines, ports, and roads are being shut down across Canada with people vowing to stay until the RCMP stand down!

‘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.

A Seven-Mile Gas Pipeline Outside Albany Has Activists Up In Arms

February 5, 2020 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Activists, New York (NY), Pipelines

For 40 years, Mary Dugan has watched her hometown of East Greenbush, New York, transform from a sleepy rural community into a bustling Albany suburb, its once solitary forests now peppered with stripmalls and daily traffic jams. It's a transition Dugan hasn't minded. But when the utility company that supplies gas to the region proposed tearing up the road a mile from her one-story ranch to install a new pipeline...

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.

How We #ShutDownDC In September, And How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring

January 22, 2020 Patrick Young, Medium.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Washington DC

Last September, when young people called for global climate strikes, organizers in DC answered that call in a big way. On September 23rd, 2019 hundreds of people organized into 22 different affinity groups to blockade 17 intersections across Washington, DC, effectively shutting down business as usual in the nation’s capital. The mobilization brought together a wide range of people spanning from healthcare workers to union activists to college students to Black Lives Matter to, of course, traditional climate activists.

Protests Target A ‘Carbon Bomb’ Linking Two Major Pipelines Outside Boston

January 20, 2020 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Boston, Pipelines, Protests

WEYMOUTH, Massachusetts — After endless public hearings, drawn-out government appeals and fruitless legal proceedings, a band of community and climate activists was left to this: Sitting in the path of a concrete truck at the site where a large natural gas compressor is being built outside Boston. They were five years on in their bid to block a facility that would play a crucial role in completing a pipeline project that seeks to ship hydraulically fractured gas from New Jersey to Canada.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Pose Monumental Challenge To $40-Billion LNG Project And The B.C. NDP Government

January 14, 2020 By Charlie Smith, Straight.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

Tensions continue to run high over the 670-kilometre Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which has been approved by the federal and B.C. governments, as well as by 20 elected First Nations councils along the route. It's become a defining moment not only in the evolution of Indigenous rights, but in the future of B.C.'s NDP government and Canada's oil and gas industry. That's because this pipeline is a key part of a $40-billion capital project that includes the huge LNG Canada plant near Kitimat.

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Loses Permit Battle With Historically Black Community

January 13, 2020 By Rebeccca Beitsch, Thehill.com Resist! Black Working Class, Courts, Dominion Energy, Pipelines

A federal appeals court rejected a needed permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Tuesday, the latest legal blow to the controversial pipeline as it heads to the Supreme Court through another case. The unanimous decision from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., was a victory for Union Hill, a community founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. Residents challenged Dominion Energy’s plans to build a gas-powered compressor station for the pipeline in the community, arguing the project would lead to poor health conditions for the largely black community.

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