Enbridge Line 9 pipeline reversal approved by energy board

Protest against Enbridge Line 9 reversal near Hamilton, Dec 2013.

Thursday’s decision comes after several months of public hearings

The Canadian Press, Mar 06, 2014

The National Energy Board has approved energy giant Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow and increase the capacity of a pipeline that has been running between southern Ontario and Montreal for years.

Pithouses Not Pipelines: Unist’tot’en Spring Work Camp, May 12-30, 2014

Aboriginal rights a threat to Canada’s resource agenda, documents reveal

Idle No More protest near Sarnia, Ontario, on January 5, 2012, that blocked border crossing.

Canadian government closely monitoring how legal rulings and aboriginal protest pose an increasing ‘risk’ for multi-billion dollar oil and mining plans

By Martin Lukacs and Shiri Pasternak, The Guardian, March 2014

The Canadian government is increasingly worried that the growing clout of aboriginal peoples’ rights could obstruct its aggressive resource development plans, documents reveal.

Chief predicts Oka Crisis if feds impose Enbridge pipeline

Canadian soldier and warrior face off during 1990 Oka Crisis.

Leader says conflict will continue to escalate until the government decides to negotiate in good faith and honour First Nations rights

Erin Flegg, Vancouver Observer, Feb 26th, 2014

If Canada fails to respond to live up to its obligations to consult First Nations, British Columbia’s Grand Chief Stewart Phillip believes it will almost certainly see another Oka Crisis, referencing a 78-day standoff in 1990 between the Mohawk people, the Quebec police and the Canadian military that broke out when the province tried to build a golf course on a traditional burial site. 

Kinder Morgan slammed for ‘accidentally’ omitting oil pipeline maps in federal application

Parliament asked to require Texas company to “re-start” its application after it neglected to upload oil pipeline maps to NEB website for people to see

Mychaylo Prystupa, Vancouver Observer, Feb 25th, 2014

Kinder Morgan was harshly criticized in the House of Commons Tuesday for not filing a complete application with maps for its Edmonton-to-Burnaby oil pipeline — a project that may disturb dozens of homes through several B.C. cities, depending on the path.

Decolonizing Pipeline Resistance: An Interview with Freda Huson

Freda Huson, Wet’suwet’en.

by Lee Veeraraghavan, Occupy.com, Feb 25, 2014

As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline intensifies in the United States, the Canadian province of British Columbia faces similar battles of its own. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, if approved, would transport diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast.

Pacific Trails Pipeline: Overview and Unist’ot’en Resistance

Court grants RCMP access to media tapes to ID Rexton suspects

Two (of six) police vehicles torched, Oct 17, 2013, Mi’qmak territory (Rexton, New Brunswick).

Documents give new insight into clash between police and anti-shale gas protesters in October

CBC News, Feb 19, 2014

A provincial court judge has granted an RCMP request to have access to videotape and photographs taken by CBC and four other media organizations during a clash between police and anti-shale gas protesters in Rexton, N.B., last October.

Coast Salish Unite to Protect Salish Sea

Oil tanker lurking in Burrard Inlet, where the Chevron refinery is located. Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline terminates here and oil is loaded onto tankers.

Tribal chairmen issue statement against Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain Pipeline expansion

Indian Country Today, Feb 17, 2014

The Lummi, Swinomish, Suquamish and Tulalip tribes of Washington, and the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam Nations in British Columbia stand together to protect the Salish Sea. Our Coast Salish governments will not sit idle while Kinder Morgan’s proposed TransMountain Pipeline, and other energy-expansion and export projects, pose a threat to the environmental integrity of our sacred homelands and waters, our treaty and aboriginal rights, and our cultures and life ways.

Letter from an Elsipogtog mother

by Annie Clair, Halifax Media Coop, Feb 14, 2013

Annie Clair with her son, Junior, on his 21st birthday. (Photo: Shanelle Clair)

Hello, my name is Annie M. Clair. I was born and raised in Elsipogtog.  I have four children and three grandchildren. (I am Junior (Germain) Breau’s mother.)  I would like to share this with you: how it’s really been difficult to go sleep at nights and to think about my son in jail for such a long time.