Bismarck, ND – Red Fawn Fallis, a political prisoner arrested during the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, was sentenced today in federal court by Judge Daniel Hovland. Fallis was sentenced to 57 months (4.75 years) in federal prison. She will receive a credit of 18 months ‘time served’ taken off of her sentence, from time spent in North Dakota jails before trial proceedings began. Fallis is expected to serve a total of 39 months in prison followed by 3 years probation. Read the rest of this entry
Category Archives: Oil & Gas
$40B LNG project in northern B.C. gets go-ahead
LNG Canada chief executive says it will move ‘immediately’ into construction
Construction is going ahead on a massive, $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C., hours after five primary investors from five different countries granted their approval for the joint venture.
The LNG Canada project will see a pipeline carrying natural gas from Dawson Creek in northeastern B.C. to a new processing plant on the coast in Kitimat. There, the gas would be liquefied for overseas export. Read the rest of this entry
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Federal Court of Appeal quashes TransMountain pipeline construction approvals
Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project sit on rail cars at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. On Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed Ottawa’s approvals to build the expansion project. (Dennis Owen/Reuters)
Some Indigenous groups and environmentalists oppose $7.4B project
In a stunning blow, the Federal Court of Appeal has quashed approvals to build the Trans Mountain expansion project, but the federal government is determined to proceed with the pipeline.
Today’s ruling is a major victory for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the $7.4-billion project. Read the rest of this entry
5 arrested as Burnaby pipeline protest camp dismantled
An excavator on site dismantles a structure at Camp Cloud in Burnaby, B.C. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
Deadline for camp structures and shelters to be removed was Sunday
Cost to twin Trans Mountain pipeline now $1.9B higher, Kinder Morgan says
Steel pipe to be used in the pipeline construction of the Trans Mountain expansion project at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. (Dennis Owen/Reuters)
Pipeline to West Coast now projected to be done by December 2021
Tiny House Warriors establish new village to resist pipeline, assert Secwepemc sovereignty
by Justin Brake, APTN National News, July 19, 2018
The Tiny House Warriors have established a new village in BC’s interior at the site of a planned worker’s camp and are calling land defenders to the area in an effort to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and assert Secwepemc sovereignty in Secwepemcul’ecw, their unceded territory. Read the rest of this entry
‘It’s going to be a hot Indian Summer’: Secwepemc Women Warriors call land defenders to B.C.
by Justin Brake, APTN National News, July 15, 2018
Members of the Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society are calling land defenders and warriors to British Columbia, where prominent Secwepemc Ktunaxa land defender Kanahus Manuel was arrested Saturday morning while asserting Secwepemc title and rights and resisting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Read the rest of this entry
RCMP arrest Indigenous pipeline protester at provincial park near Kamloops, B.C.
A still from a video on a Facebook page belonging to Kanahus Manuel shows her being handcuffed and taken away by RCMP officers. (Kanahus Manuel/Facebook)
Facebook video shot at scene shows RCMP officers detaining a woman protesting Trans Mountain pipeline
Secwepmec First Nation ‘Tiny House Warriors’ occupy North Thompson provincial park
What was originally a three day event has turned into an indefinite occupation of the North Thompson provincial park by the Secwepmec Nation in protest of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. (Kanahus Manuel/Facebook)
‘It’s no longer a park. It’s where we live. It’s Secwepmec land’
No Bayou Bridge Pipeline
UPDATE – SUPPORT NEEDED
Mark Tilsen, an Oglala Lakota Water Protector, is locked-down at a key Bayou Bridge Pipeline construction site. Work at the site has been shut down.
After Mark locked-down, police moved across the street and did a mass arrest. They arrested six people including media folks, direct support and Cherri Foytlin.
Please CALL the Iberville Parish Sheriff Dept and demand their release: 225-687-5100
Then please DONATE so that we can get everyone out of jail: https://www.youcaring.com/leauestlavienobayoubridgepipeline…
We also ask that you send your prayers and love to all those on the frontlines today.
More updates coming soon. For background story see below.
