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Activists plot how to block new pipelines in B.C.
by Carlito Pablo, The Georgia Straight, Jan 8, 2014
Solidarity with Mi’kmaq banners at Unist’ot’en camp, Dec 2, 2013.
At night, around campfires under a New Brunswick sky, Ambrose Williams thought about imminent battles back home. Last November, the young Vancouver man and nine others travelled more than 5,000 kilometres east to the town of Rexton. Their mission was to reinforce the Mi’kmaq of the Elsipogtog First Nation who had clashed the month before with the RCMP. The confrontation happened on October 17, 2013, when heavily armed police dismantled a highway blockade by Natives opposing a gas-exploration project. Read the rest of this entry
After Northern Gateway pipeline recommendation, Unist’ot’en blockade camp ups the ante
First Nations blockade camp standing in the path of Northern Gateway gets an influx of volunteer applications in preparation for the fight against oil and gas companies
Construction of pit house at Unist’tot’en camp, Oct 2013.
With the announcement of the National Energy Board’s ruling in favour of Enbridge’s Northern pipeline, and the fall of yet another government environmental safeguard, the organizers of the anti-pipeline blockade camp in Northern BC are more committed than ever to holding their ground. Along with partner Forest Action Network (FAN), they’ve put out a call for more volunteers, and FAN director Zoe Blunt says they’ve received a flood of applications in the past week from people eager to travel to the camp and help out. Read the rest of this entry
Chuck Strahl, Chair of CSIS oversight committee, lobbying for Enbridge
Chuck Strahl, now chair of SIRC.
OTTAWA — Concerns are being raised about reports that former Conservative MP Chuck Strahl, who now oversees Canada’s spy agency, is lobbying for Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Read the rest of this entry
Pipeline debate shaping up as propaganda war
Native drummers at protest against Enbridge hearings, Vancouver Jan 14, 2013.
Northern Gateway: It is a serious mistake to characterize opposition to project as simply from fringe radicals
By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun columnist, December 28, 2013
Well, that didn’t take long. The New Year isn’t even here yet and the Northern Gateway pipeline debate already begins to polarize.
First up, an argument that non-governmental organizations vowing to stop the proposed project following its approval by the National Energy Board — subject to more than 200 conditions — are somehow undermining the democratic process through intimidation, threats of violent protest, political sabotage, slander and disinformation. Read the rest of this entry
Canadian aboriginals dig in as pipeline final decision nears
By Scott Haggett and Julie Gordon, Reuters, Dec 23, 2013
Protest in Comox, BC, against Enbridge pipeline, 2012.
Canada’s push to build its first major conduit for shipping oil to Asia took a step forward last week, but the government’s fractious relations with the country’s aboriginal First Nations still loom as a formidable obstacle to the project. Read the rest of this entry
Report: BC energy projects face broad Native resistance
Suggests more money could buy support
Native drummers at protest against Enbridge hearings, Vancouver Jan 14, 2013, Vancouver police Public Safety Unit behind them.
by Mark Hume, The Globe and Mail, Dec 5, 2013
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s special envoy has issued a blueprint to gain aboriginal support for proposed energy projects in British Columbia worth about $100-billion, but opponents of oil pipelines and tanker traffic – many of them aboriginal – warn it’s still not good enough. Read the rest of this entry
Enbridge Line 9 lockdown shuts down construction in Toronto
Five protesters have attached themselves to Enbridge equipment in north Toronto.
Five protesters have locked themselves to construction equipment in north Toronto to halt work on Enbridge Inc.’s Line 9 oil pipeline. Read the rest of this entry
Extensive surveillance of anti-pipeline & Tar Sands groups revealed
The federal government has been vigorously spying on anti-oil sands activists and organizations in BC and across Canada since last December, documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show. Not only is the federal government subsidizing the energy industry in underwriting their costs, but deploying public safety resources as a de-facto ‘insurance policy’ to ensure that federal strategies on proposed pipeline projects are achieved, these documents indicate. Read the rest of this entry
Thousands rally in Vancouver against Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline
Several thousand rally against proposed Enbridge pipeline in Vancouver, Nov 16, 2013.
With a decision looming on the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to B.C.’s coast, several thousand rallied against the proposal Saturday in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry
Unist’ot’en camp site of late night bombing
By Jerome Turner, Smithers Interior News, October 29, 2013
Banners at the Unist’ot’en camp, 2012.
An attempt to destroy the main Unist’ot’en sign with a home-made explosive accelerant occurred last night at approximately 10:20 p.m.
The Unist’ot’en camp located around 70 kilometres south of Houston has been in place since 2010 in response to proposed pipelines such as Enbridge’s Northern Gateway and Pacific Trails’ liquid natural gas line. Read the rest of this entry
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