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How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Live
How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead. A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child. Photo by Rodney Mitchell. […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre BC approves impact studies and calls for consultation with Wet’suwet’en as work proceeds in contested area. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has granted Coastal GasLink permission to begin pipeline construction near the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, the scene of a standoff and arrests in February. […]
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks Waste from diesel spills by Coastal GasLink and RCMP is being dumped in local landfill. Efforts to clean up diesel spills by the RCMP and Coastal GasLink in Wet’suwet’en territory risk spreading the contamination, the First Nation has warned. Mike Ridsdale, environmental assessment co-ordinator for the […]
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum Meet with pipeline company within 30 days or decision will be made without you, Environmental Assessment Office says. The office found Coastal GasLink had not provided the information needed to allow the office to assess the project’s impact. But it said that was because the company had […]
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids Limits on reporters’ access, threats of arrest bring criticism from media, journalism groups. The RCMP’s handling of the enforcement of an injunction in Wet’suwet’en territory has generated accusations that police unnecessarily interfered with reporters doing their jobs. “This is them trying to control the […]
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down RCMP ‘exclusion zone’ isn’t deterring anti-pipeline activists, land defenders. A report from the scene. Thirty-nine kilometres down the Morice Forest Service Road in northern British Columbia, people huddle around a fire, close enough to feel some heat but not enough to melt their boots. […]
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company ‘It’s unnerving that might be our reality again.’ One year after a police raid in northern British Columbia attracted international attention, tensions between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Coastal GasLink are rising once again. The company’s recent victory in winning a court decision granting […]
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports Newspaper cites planning documents that called for ‘lethal overwatch’ to ensure pipeline built. The RCMP were prepared to use snipers with shoot-to-kill orders when they launched a raid to remove Indigenous protesters slowing pipeline construction in Wet’suwet’en territory, the Guardian reported today. The exclusive […]
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police It’s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts. RCMP action against the Wet’suwet’en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. Photo by Michael Toledano. The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear […]
The Tears of Justin Trudeau
The Tears of Justin Trudeau On January 7th the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swept into a non-violent checkpoint set up by the Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Fourteen people were violently arrested in the ambush by the militarized colonial forces. The camp was set up by hereditary leaders to defend the ancestral […]
Another Crucial Canadian Pipeline Runs Into Trouble
Another Crucial Canadian Pipeline Runs Into Trouble Late last year, Royal Dutch Shell gave the greenlight to a massive LNG export terminal on Canada’s Pacific Coast, one of the largest investments in LNG in years. But like other fossil fuel projects in Canada, the plans have run into some trouble. Shell’s LNG Canada project hinges […]
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’ RCMP raids in Wet’suwet’en territory can’t bring justice, reconciliation or a better future, Neskonlith chief says. Chief Judy Wilson: ‘We have to change to ensure that our young people have a future. That’s what the Indigenous land defenders are talking about when […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
