Pipeline company downplaying major legal and financial risks of crossing unceded First Nations territory in British Columbia
by Martin Lukacs, The Guardian, October 16, 2017
The controversial expansion of a pipeline that would carry tar sands crude from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast will be doomed by the rising power of Indigenous land rights.
That’s the message that Kanahus Manuel, an Indigenous activist from the Secwepemc Nation in central BC, plans to deliver to banks financing the project as she travels through Europe this week. Read the rest of this entry