Category Archives: Oil & Gas
RCMP set up ‘exclusion zones’ for public and media as raid on B.C. camps start
Members of the RCMP Division Liaison Team (DLT) at the Gidumt’en checkpoint on Jan 7, 2019. Photo: facebook
APTN National News, Jan. 7, 2019
The RCMP are setting up exclusion zones and closed roads to the public and media as officers get set to dismantle two camps on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.
“During the police enforcement operation, temporary exclusion zones and road closures will be established for police and public safety reasons,” said the news release sent out Monday morning that confirmed the RCMP will enforce a court order requested by a pipeline company trying to build a pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. Read the rest of this entry
‘An act of war’: Gidimt’en clan prepares for police raid on Wet’suwet’en Territory
Members of an RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT) train with an armoured vehicle in this undated photograph.
by Kathleen Martens, APTN News, January 5, 2019
The RCMP is planning ‘an act of war’ to remove Indigenous protesters from blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline in northwestern B.C., says one of the clans involved.
The clan that has been maintaining a checkpoint keeping Coastal GasLink, a subsidiary of TransCanada Corp., off traditional Wet’suwet’en Nation territory south of Houston, B.C. posted a message on Facebook Saturday that police are planning to ‘forcibly remove’ them. Read the rest of this entry
Video: Unist’ot’en resists pipeline project
Indigenous Nation Blocks TransCanada Pipeline with New Checkpoint Read the rest of this entry
Injunction extended to all LNG blockades south of Houston
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs at the Gitdumden checkpoint on Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018. Twitter photo
New Gitdumden Morice River Forest Service Rd checkpoint in area Coastal GasLink can access.
by Chris Gareau, Interior News, Dec. 21, 2018
The interim injunction applied to the Unist’ot’en (Dark House) blockade at its camp now applies to the Gitdumden checkpoint built Dec. 17 by members of the neighbouring clan, according to a spokesperson for Coastal Gaslink. Read the rest of this entry
New checkpoint prevents Coastal GasLink from posting injunction notice at bridge says company
APTN National News, December 19, 2018
A checkpoint set up on Morice River Rd by the Gitdumt’en Clan of the Wet’suwe’ten Nation in British Columbia has blocked an attempt by Coastal GasLink to post an injunction notice on the gate of the Unist’ot’en camp 20 kilometres down the road according to the company. Read the rest of this entry
Clans join together to block LNG from Unist’ot’en territory
by Sawyer Bogdan My Bulkley Lakes Now, Dec. 17, 2018After a judged approved an injunction against the Unist’ot’en for blocking the Morice River Bridge, other Wet’suwet’en clans have stepped in.
The blockage has been moved onto Cas Yika territory, a member of the Gidimt’en clan 44 km before Unist’ot’en territory. Read the rest of this entry
Judge rules Uni’stot’en gate must come down for pipeline
A judge has given the Uni’stot’en Camp 72 hours to dismantle this locked gate across the Morice River bridge. (APTN/Kathleen Martens photo)
by Kathleen Martens, APTN National News, December 15, 2018
An Indigenous camp was ordered Friday to remove a gate that’s blocking a bridge in northwestern B.C. and holding up a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project.
Judge Marguerite Church of the B.C. Supreme Court sided with Coastal GasLink, a subsidiary of TransCanada Corp., which filed an injunction to get construction going on the $40-billion LNG Canada build. Read the rest of this entry
Unist’ot’en Camp will have to wait until Friday for injunction decision
Freda Huson and Warner Naziel outside the courthouse in Prince George, B.C. (Submitted photo)
by Kathleen Martens, APTN National News, December 14, 2018
A B.C. judge has reserved her decision on whether to grant an injunction against members of a Wet’suwet’en clan so the $40-billion LNG Canada project can proceed.
Justice Marguerite Church put the matter over to Friday afternoon, said Warner Naziel of the Unist’ot’en Camp south of Houston, B.C. Read the rest of this entry
$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
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
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