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

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

Fight the Pipelines: Answering the call to action

Unist’tot’en camp members stop surveyors, November 2012.

February 8, 2014

What’s happening? What should we do? What happens next?

WORK HAS STARTED ON THE PIPELINE ROUTE

It’s not clear exactly how much work has been done on the Pacific Trail and Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline route. Most likely they are clearing trees and brush. Worst case: They are digging trenches and laying pipe already. The info from Unis’tot’en Camp says the work is starting from the east and west and it will meet the indigenous blockade in the middle. http://unistotencamp.com/?p=761

Unist’ot’en Call to Action: Pipeline Construction Has Begun

Members of Unis’tot’en camp, November 2012.

From our friends at Unist’ot’en Camp: “[We have] recently learned that the construction phase of the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline has started from the East and also from the West. They intend to have the pipeline finished to the Eastern and Western borders of our unceded lands with us as the last obstacle.

Black bear killed by Apache contractor near Nelson, BC

Apache contractor ran over a hibernating bear den while clearing land near Fort Nelson, B.C.

CBC News, Jan 30, 2014

An oil and gas company is investigating after one of its contractors accidentally ran over and killed a black bear near Fort Nelson, B.C., last week.

The black bear was hibernating in a shallow, unidentified den approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Fort Nelson, in the Liard Basin of northern B.C.

Pancakes Not Pipelines Draws Large Crowd; Fundraiser for Unist’ot’en Camp

by A  Thorn in Their Side, Jan 27, 2014

Beginning in the AM, a crowd of over 500 showed up to an event organized by Skwomesh Action, at Chief Joe Mattias Centre in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territories (so called West Vancouver).

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.

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.

Erin Flegg, Vancouver Observer, Jan 6th, 2014

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.

Unist’ot’en Blocks Path Of Northern Pipelines In British Columbia

Solidarity with Mi’kmaq banners at Unist’ot’en camp, Dec 2, 2013.

By Joseph Jones, www.truth-out.org, December 3rd, 2013

Rosa Parks famously occupied the seat of a Montgomery bus, an action that sparked a revolution in U.S. racial relations. The Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en now defiantly occupies territory whose location is critical to a proposed new pipeline route. They experience daily surveillance by helicopters that sometimes buzz close over the main cabin of the occupation.