On Friday, Alberta’s Energy Minister, Sonya Savage, came under fire for suggesting
that the Covid-19 outbreak made this a good time to continue the TransMountain
Speaking ‘Now it is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more
than 15 people,’
Considering the heavy criticism of the Coastal GasLink and TransMountain pipeline
projects, and their impacts on the environment and the First Nations peoples,
In British Columbia,
Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation have attempted to block construction of the Coastal GasLink project, which crosses through 190km of their land, and have issued a letter to the company informing them that they are ‘trespassing’ on sovereign territory, demanding they vacate the area.
The UN committee has previously demanded halts to other industrial projects in Canada, such as the Site C dam, but this is the first for the Transmountain and Coastal GasLink projects. The committee calls on Canada to end the ‘forced eviction’ of Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en people, to guarantee no force will be used against the two groups, and for police and security to withdraw from their territories.
TransMountain Corp. has said that ‘Canadian courts have reviewed our consultation with the First Nations, and found it to be adequate’.
Pipeline project, since it denies people of their right to effectively protest.
on a podcast held by an oil well drilling group, she said:
the UN
committee to end racism has urged the Canadian government to immediately halt the
pipeline’s construction. This followed reports of ‘forced removal, harassment and
intimidation’ against indigenous peoples by law enforcement in the area.
a protest group called the ‘Tiny House Warriors’ has built many
tiny homes in the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline project, which crosses through
Secwepemc nation’s territory in British Columbia.
Over 50 First Nations across North America have now signed a treaty opposing all
projects affecting their land and water.
Noah
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